Hi Everybody.
WO HOO - I’m delighted to report that we brought Ashling home from
hospital yesterday afternoon. She had managed to stay off oxygen for 24 hours
and so she was allowed to go home. We are absolutely thrilled to be home and
for our family to be back together. Our little Dog, Patch, has not stopped
wagging her tail since we arrived. So cute. Ash is settling back into her bed
in her room, although she will be spending a lot of time in our La-Z-Boy chair
in the sitting room. We have a plan for her home physio for now to get Ash
moving and to make sure she gets plenty of rest post-surgery. So, we are
keeping things very quiet for now.
The week after next we will start doing a block of physio for six weeks
and this will help Ash get back on her feet properly. We will either do this at
the Wilson Centre in Takapuna or at Starship hospital.
Ash has a spinal appointment in six weeks’ time for a follow-up to
check her wounds and do some x-rays. I will post pictures of these. In the meantime,
this is a picture below that we got from her surgery. We can see a big difference
already in her back and in her neck, which is amazing. But because she is quite
sore, it is difficult for her to stand up straight so far, but that will all
come soon with time. We are managing to stay on top of her pain mostly, with a rigid
medicine regime and this will all lighten over the next few weeks.
We are
incredibly grateful for the journey that we have had, everything pretty much
going according to plan. Even though it was very hard at times, we never got
too overwhelmed and felt supported throughout. We are so appreciative for all
the love, prayers, gifts, dinners, baking and even the incredibly generous
yogi- money collection for Ash- Honestly, I just get emotional thinking about
how kind people have been and how loved we have felt. Thank you all so much. 🙏🙏🙏
Over the next few days, we will put together a post from Ashling once she’s feeling up to it. ❤️ XXX
