Time at Home

I'm embarassed to admit that I just figured out how to put pictures in the main part of the blog this week. So I might go a little overboard putting pictures up. Yesterday Scott came home for the first time since before his transplant. We were worried about him getting into the house because stairs were an unknown challenge up until this point. We have 6 stairs to get to our front door but only 3 stairs up to the back door. Scott was able to get up those 3 stairs with some help. He isn't supposed to use his arms very much because his sternum isn't completly healed. He needs quite a bit of help standing up and going up stairs. He did do better than I thought though.
It will be the most help when Scott can get out of bed without any help. He's getting there. Sometimes I hardly support him at all and he's able to stand up. Sometimes he needs more help.
About coming home - It has been wonderful!! Scott says food tastes better at home. He has reasons to move and do things at home. It isn't nearly as cramped with 6 people in our house as it is in his hospital room. It's even nice to be in the car going back and forth. There's a reason to get dressed. The plan is to come home as often as possible. When Scott can do a few more things without help I think he'll be able to come home for good! However, I will make sure I don't lock us out of the house next time. Today we had some extra time in the backyard that wasn't planned. At least the weather was pretty good!
We watched a movie together and just enjoyed being a family. It feels great to have a bit of normal back in our life:)