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Sport 36: Winter 2008

Five weeks + five

Five weeks + five

My knee is not able to bend much. All the bedrest has stiffened it up and the surgeon is not sure why. Sometimes it happens, he says. Collateral damage.

I am back from the pool and two friends pop in. We chat. Now that I'm off the bed it's easier to say how I am. I'm scared. I don't know how I'll manage when I go home. I have lost so much muscle, and movement. They try and think of ways it might work. They offer husbands for help.

I tell them I always had it in the back of my mind that I might need to go to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Rotorua to get moving again. But I don't know that I can face more hospital, and being so far away from home.

Another visitor, Liz, arrives. She brings Paul's funeral booklet. We put it on the windowsill with the cards.

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Three kind things a nurse will do for you when you're allowed out of bed:

1.Wheel you to the ward computer so you can clear your emails.
2.Take you on a tour of the ward.
3.Help you leave.