As of yesterday, Karen completed a successful series of occupational therapy tests. She no longer will require any physical therapy. We knew this was coming as she has quickly improved all motions of her upper body, including shoulders, arms, elbows, and hands.
Karen will continue with hospital physical therapy due to multiple problems caused by the blood clots in her legs for at least two more weeks. However, she has made good strides from when she started. She can get in and out of our pool without any assistance. All pillows have been removed from "her" chairs as she can now get up herself without needing a higher spot from which to get up. She continues to require walking with a walker with balance and leg strength are still not what they need to be. I expect her to be able to discontinue the walker use by mid to late August. We're hoping and praying that she can return to her favorite activity, golf, sometime this fall. It will probably require most of her blood clots being dissolved by coumadin, but we're optimistic that will happen sooner rather than later.
We have now finalized our plans for a two week trip to Aruba the last week of September and the firtst week of October. We will be home in time to celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary on October 10th. Later on in October, we plan on going to Bonita Springs, Florida for a reunion with her high school friends. We're making up for lost time!
Her rapid recovery has been helped along with all the positive thoughts and prayers from our family, relatives, and friends. We strongly believe that all the prayers on her behalf have been answered with her comparatively quick recovery.
She is now back on her computer, thus there is no need for the continued posting on her health blog. Better that all of you and she correspond directly by e-mail, phone, or personal time together. Her e-mail address is karen-surprise@cox.net for anyone who might not have it. Needless to say, she loves to be "back" to a more normal lifestyle. She looks forward to speaking to everyone ditectly.
Our combined "thanks" for being there for us in so many ways during the journey she has had from the life threatening beginning she beat to her current remarkable recovery. We feel very blessed to have the support of so many people during the last three months.
Love, Bill
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