Seth-n-Jode's Adventures

What a great day today was!  Our friend, John, brought us a canadian bacon and pineapple pizza again.  Seth and I met him down in the Kindred lunchroom and just sat and had lunch like normal people talking about life, the economy, politics, normal things.  It seems like such a small thing but it is really huge.  Since the patients at Kindred are usually so sick, they stay in their rooms all the time so this facility is set up to always have the patient have their meals eaten in their room and basically stay in their rooms 24/7.  But Seth says it gets kind of lonely sitting there especially when you're staring down hospital food!  Not that we're complaining but hospital fare sure doesn't beat a canadian bacon and pineapple pizza straight out of the oven and eaten with a friend, to boot!

Another big win for today is that I slept by myself for the first time last night since the accident.  I've had some pretty bad nightmares over the past month where I was really glad Mom was with me.  Last night, Judy (Seth's mom) was on call to come over immediately if I had a nightmare and Erinn from Durango also had her phone by her bed in case I needed to talk at any time during the night.  So I was in good hands.  I slept through the night with no nightmares.  This may seem like a small thing but a big win for me in healing, I suppose.

Seth also was introduced to the Kindred Therapy room which we have never seen before.  Seth says it has all these bars and PT machines that look really cool.  Our Occupational Therapist, Ron, played WII with Seth.  Seth wants to go back to this room now everyday  as he would really like to use some of the machines.  They said since most of the machines in that room require weight bearing status, that's why Seth hasn't gone there.

After lunch, we did the Routine.  Seth really appreciates the shower part of the Routine.  And he deserved it, he worked hard.

We ended the day watching one of our favorite movies, "The Man from Snowy River".  I would rate this as one of the top love stories of all time. Its about a poor man (Jim Craig) from the mountains who has this awesome horse. He falls in love with a girl (Jessica Harrison) whose rich father is a horse and cattle rancher on the plains of Australia. If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend it.  The scene where Jim rides his horse down this very steep mountainside is breathtaking!  Anyway,  Seth and I danced to Jessica's Theme from this movie at our wedding 15 1/2 years ago.  We had practiced and practiced and practiced the dance before our wedding.  We had even practiced it in my wedding gown as I had to pick up my train in my right hand in order that Seth could spin me to the left as one part of our routine.   However, during the actual ceremony where we did the dance, I was reaching down to pick up my train with my right hand, as we had practiced, and Seth whispers urgently to me, "No, Jode, wrong hand.".  Here we are in front of 75 people and I didn't want to argue the point and I thought,  "Well maybe he's right and I'm wrong."  So I picked up my train in my left hand and when the twirl came, I went straight into my train and could barely find my way out!  Luckily the pianist saw the dilemma and kept the song going for a few more moments as we untangled ourselves and continued on! 

This is the only picture I have of Seth with a horse and the camel doesn't quite fit.  But there you have it, "The Man from Durango, CO"!  And that's Jody not Jessica!