Rehab! Rehab! Read All About It!

Yes, Mer and I were Miss-Chievous, that's for sure!
Slim got a real work out that week. I think we hid him in a different spot everyday, just to scare the heck out of someone.

Other rehab memories:

Mer and I would sit in an open social area for meals everyday, this was required so that the patients were forced to mingle. One day a tiny elderly woman sat with us. She was very angry at the world and it showed! She was so rude and disrespectful. Observing Merrym's condition she looked at me and said, "If I had to live like that, I'd kill myself!" OHHH! Steam must have been coming out of my head and my eyeballs popping. I had to really control my hand, it SO wanted to slap the snot right out of her! But we just kept right on keep'n on.

I did go to hydrotherapy with Mer. The room was so industrial looking, I thought they were going to cook up a pot of Merrym stew. Mer sat buckled in a sling that was attached to a huge robotic arm, it lifted her up in the air and then down into a humongous vat of bubbling water to soak. But before they did that, the therapist had Mer sit buck naked, while he picked every single one of her scabs off with some type of tweezers. Remember the days when our mothers said, "Don't pick that scab off, you'll leave a scar?" Well so much for that mom!

Mer absolutely hated going to the psych, talk obstinate! I'm sure she just wanted to stuff this ugly turmoil. That's always so much easier and less painful.

The recreational staff took us to the zoo, dropped us off and left, well we were kinda animalistic.

We re-learned how to use the kitchen, what were they thinking Mer, a stroke and sharp objects didn't mix, HELLO!

At the end of most days the staff didn't go home, they watched movies in "Comedy Central", Mer's room.

Watching Mer learn how to use her walker was very difficult for me. I didn't like seeing that version of my LITTLE sister. But, oh how I admired her!

While I was taking "nursing" lessons, my wonderful husband was home with our three children, painting and readying a room for Mer's homecoming.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Romans 12:10


Love you Mer