Keeping Fit My Way

You may not be familiar with the articles on the left.

They are a pair of anti embolism socks, and they are issued  when you have surgery here in the U.K.

You put these on before surgery,

and have an anticoagulant injection

every day you are in hospital 

after your operation and keep the stockings on for some ten days.

  This is to reduce the risk of
developing deep vein thrombosis.

All well and good,

but to be effective these stockings have to fit

closer than a second skin

and are very difficult to get on.

A handy hint from the hospital 

is to slide them on over a plastic bag 

and then remove the plastic bag

through the open hole under the foot.

Sound simple?

Today, because hubby can't shower or get into a bath post op.

because the wound in his back has to be kept dry,

in addition to his usual ablutions we thought 

it would feel refreshing to let his feet have a nice soak

in a bowl of water, so off came the socks.

Along with the other restrictions

he isn't supposed to bend, twist, or reach too much,

so of course I had to put the socks back on him.

Although we used the plastic bag trick I would say that,

even though I don't have much experience wrestling pigs,

getting those socks back on him was something along those lines.

By the time I got them back on him I not only felt

as though I'd wrestled a pig,

but that the pig had won!

Still, hubby's a nice clean boy now, 

and I don't need to go to the gym!

If you want a blast from the past try this video of Olivia Newton John singing
"Let's Get Physical"
with positively no pig wrestling involved.

God Bless