Unpacking forever

Sunday was a pretty quiet day. Beth got started on unpacking kitchen stuff with a little help from her grandmother. Jim Bob and Aimee came over too, but didn't really do too much. We finally made some progress on Monday because my Mom came down for the day to help out. She's the perfect person to recruit for a thankless task like this so it was great that she volunteered to help. She spent all day unpacking stuff in the kitchen and putting things away, powering through almost every box in there. And she even brought a lasagna too! Although our gas still isn't turned on, so we can't eat it yet, but still...

I have a doctor's appointment with a general practitioner today. I'm thinking that it will basically be a wasted trip since all I need is a referral to an orthopedic specialist out here, but this is what has to be done, I guess. I hope he'll at least change some of the bandages for me because they are starting to itch a little bit. As for progress, I was sitting in the recliner in the living room the other day and I was able to left my right leg for the first time. I even did it a few times to make sure that it wasn't a fluke--although I'm not sure how much of that I'm even supposed to do yet, if any, so I quit after a few. I don't want to over-exert it or risk straining it or anything. I hope to get some more information about the recovery timetable whenever I'm able to see a specialist out here. But it's not hurting as much and I'm getting around just fine on the crutches. I'm not much help unpacking though. We're nowhere close to done and from the looks of it, it will take quite a while to get everything unpacked and put away.