Typical day 23 days after injury

2:00am- pain meds, sometimes ice pack for his ankle, water refill

6:00am-  2 pain meds

Breakfast in bed, water refill

PT exercises

Sometimes a trip to the bathroom carrying his wound vac and using the walker

10:00am- pain meds, aspirin

Lunch in bed, water refill

PT exercises

2:00pm- pain meds, stool softener

6:00pm- 2 pain meds

Dinner in bed (occasionally he eats in his wheelchair), water refill

PT exercises with a walk to the kitchen + back

10:00pm- pain meds

I usually rotate is ankle to help loosen + stretch it before bed.

Jeremy and I give Brig his meds every 4 hours.  Sometimes he chooses to go 6 hours when he is having a good day. 

On Monday, Wednesday or Friday there is a 1 1/2 hours where Nick visits to change his wound vac. It is never the same time so I don't schedule anything that day and will only leave for a quick errand after wound care is done.

So far every week he has had at least 1 doctor appointment where we are gone for a few hours. 

2-3 times a week I wash his hair in an inflatable hair sink and he washes himself with a washcloth + no-rinse soap.  We are hoping to try a shower next week. He worries about keeping the fasciotomy sites, vac hose, wound vac machine dry. 

The rest of his time he is sleeping, watching Netflix/Hulu or talking with visitors.