All right, guardians, I’m going to keep talking to you post-surgery,
because we both know of Miss Ex-Lumps-a-Lot is NOT cogent enough to retain any
of this yet.
First, hide the car keys. Hide them! Yours and hers.
Drowsy people are often positive, and insistent, they are okay to drive. (Not
true. Don’t fall for it.)
Second, push for naps, or at least horizontal relaxing.
Gravity, even when sitting, can and will tax the boob.
Also, don’t ask or offer, just assume control of whatever
task she will inevitably try to take on in her groggy state. Be it watering
plants with tea or feeding couscous to the cat, no matter how benign, just do
it for her. Please.
This includes:
- The dishes. (There is a LOT of lifting in dishes.) Plus, this helps not just the recently surgered, but the working significant other and/or roommates.
- A written log of patient’s medications taken. Day/Time/Amount.
- Meals and snacks.
- An offer to do laundry. (Clean jammies are a blessing, especially for those bedridden.)
Third, thank you.
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Next Post 10/7: “Why,
hello there, sleepy! Don’t you look less lumpy?”
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Question: What the
nicest thing someone else has done for you when you were “out of it”?
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