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roommate came home today! yay! happy about that. now the work begins. we tested out just about everything with the house today and accessibility. fitted the potty chairs over the downstairs bathroom and his bathroom upstairs, put the shower chair in the downstairs shower and he tried them all to make sure he could use them no problem in case i wasn't around to help.

surprisingly he was able to negotiate the stairs up and down with no help at all. in fact, no help with anything.......until......

he sat in his lazyboy upstairs. now, he does have a walker upstairs and downstairs as well as canes and a wheelchair for downstairs. but when he sat down in the lazy boy there was no getting up by himself. i'm strong, but not that strong. i damn near dropped him on the floor trying to get him up. i just couldn't do it. i was able to just barely get his butt on the edge of the lazyboy seat and lay him back then run and grab my neighbor to help me get him up.

no harm, no foul. i just don't want to hurt his back and the seemingly great job Doc did on him. i honestly didn't think he'd be able to do the stairs. that's a huge plus.

i'm still afraid for when i leave to go to the office due to the distance of travel, 38 miles one way. if he fucks up and i'm at work.....i shudder to think.

all in all though his back is healing nicely and he starts therapy next week.

oh, that, and in the next two weeks i'm getting a raise at work.

here's a pic of the roommates back just after surgery.....