YAY! Excellent news!
Glad to hear he is improving and may be home soon!
That’s so sweet! 
Good luck to you and yours, Lacunae Matata. Glad your teenager is rising to the occasion, and I hope your dear husband continues to recover.
Shoe, get back into your own “My husband is in the hospital” thread and update us on how TOS is doing.
OtherShoe and Tony could be roomies now - Tony has moved over to rehab! Maybe now he can sleep a little while without someone coming to take blood or vitals or the trash! I swear, after 9 days in the surgical unit, he was hallucinating from lack of sleep. Today is his first full day, so I don’t yet know how this will work. His mom and dad will go home this evening. I may go back tomorrow, after I’ve managed stuff here at home. Or I may wait another day or two. Gonna talk to the case manager today to see what they’re expecting. He sent me a picture last night, and looked great.
Besides, I ran to the bank and Walmart yesterday afternoon, and Lily was very clingy afterwards: “Mommy, you come home!” Like she was surprised. Poor baby doesn’t get it.
Sleep is one of the worst parts of being in the hospital. I remember being in and after a few weeks getting a private room. It was heaven! I slept well for the first time in weeks.
After two days in, someone came and asked if I would voluntarily give it up for someone else. I thought about it. My natural inclination is to be helpful and I felt selfish - but I decided to keep it. I was sleeping and it felt good. And I was pretty damn-sick too, so I was sorry, but no, you can’t have my private room.
Sounds like some good progress - sending out a wish of further progress!
Quick update: after a week in rehab, my sweetheart may be home as soon as tomorrow! Waiting for a final okay from his orthopedist. (Basically, if the rotator cuff repair can wait 6 weeks, Tony can come home. He can use the walker for short distances - bed to bathroom, that sort of thing. If the shoulder surgery can’t wait, though, the homecoming is delayed. Damn, but this will be a long process, whenever he comes home!)
Oh, cool - we get our husbands back around the same time!
Maybe we need to start a support group thread for actually dealing with our better-but-still-healing hubbies, purplehorseshoe. I’m afraid that home will just be the start of the journey!
Wow–Namesake poster. I always do a double take when I see your name! Good luck–sounds like you and your husband have had a run lately! Good luck with him, I know when I broke my hip, my wife was a life saver. It does get better–hang in there! No worries indeed!
I just wanted to share this picture. It still makes me cry, but it really illustrates the community that has supported us through this ordeal.
Don’t forget the picture you don’t have. The one of all the dopers pulling for your hubby.
I will share here what I put in PHS’s thread about her husband being in the hospital.
Pain is a sign of weakness leaving the body. The more it hurts in rehab the sooner and the better the result.
I was told that in 1994 when I shattered my heel. I took it to heart and endured massive pain during physical therapy
Today I walk without a limp.
Thank you, Rick.
The first night home has been good, exhausting, and frustrating. Tony enjoyed his own bed, we have his computer in an accessable spot, the house is mostly rearranged the way he needs it. I’m losing my mind, trying to get him situated, get his prescriptions (everyone says someone else has to approve something,) arrange appointments and transport, keep everyone fed, etc. Things will become more routine soon, but I’m juggling a lot right now…
Lacuna Matata - Was the K9 happy to see him? How’s the dog doing?
StG
The retired K9 was over the moon. The active-duty K9 is boarding with another of the officers right now to stay current on training.
I’m resurrecting this thread, with a little bit of good news:
Tomorrow, almost exactly 20 months after Tony’s wreck, he’s returning to work on light duty. His final tally of injuries was
Complicated tib-fib fracture - three surgeries, 23 pieces of titanium holding it together, plus a life/limb-threatening series of infections (MRSA, enterobacter, plus C diff,) requiring six weeks of IV antibiotics.
Torn miniscus in right knee - one surgery
Labral tear in right hip - one surgery.
Fractured pelvis
Bruised kidney, requiring two blood transfusions
Four fractured spinal processes - may still require surgery.
Three broken ribs, with a bonus pneumothorax
Broken clavicle
Elbow fracture
Torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders, labral tear in right shoulder - three surgeries, one more pending
Orbital fracture
Five broken teeth
Concussion
New scar on forehead from laceration that had about ten stitches
(Honestly, it seems like there was something else that I don’t remember right now. But it’s all a blur.)
Still doing physical and aquatic therapy, don’t know yet how he’ll tolerate even light duty - his back is giving him hell - but it’s progress. Maybe now we can start digging our way out of our financial morass. For the first year after the wreck, we received a stipend from a state fund that makes up the difference between workers comp and first responder salary. However, the past eight months have seen us getting farther and farther behind. I finally contacted the local Hundred Club three weeks ago, to see whether they could help. (They have helped other law enforcement officers in identical situations in the past. I figured the worst they could do was say “no,” but I was wrong. The worst they could do was contact us once to acknowledge, and then nothing for the past two weeks. If I knew the answer was “no,” I’d figure out what to do next. But it looks like we’ll have to sell something to pay our property tax next month - either my son’s pickup truck or the ATV. Sigh.)
But ultimately? This outcome is about as good as anyone could hope for! So - hooray!
Damn, it’s times like this I wish I was rich, or had won the lottery.
Dang! Is there anything he didn’t break/tear/contuse?
Well, the appliance in his left knee - total replacement in June 2010 - held up beautifully, so there’s that!
This is such good news. I’ve been praying for your Tony on a regular basis. I hope he can tolerate light duty, I’m pretty sure that one of the reasons he’s been so cranky is because he needs to work and provide for his family.