The nurses will show you how and help, so you ll be doing it by yourself soon. It s a good idea to have a nurse nearby watching you the first time you get out by yourself, just in case you get dizzy. But after that it gets easy. I tried to walk at least once every four hours for about fifteen minutes. I dry-heaved and burped.
Sleep is a funny thing.
I d doze off into some dream, wake up thinking I d been down for two or three hours, and find it was 8 minutes. For the first three days, I think my longest continuous sleep was 15 minutes. Parts of my body would become numb, which would wake me up. Moving wasn t easy, so it d take a few minutes to readjust my position and try to doze off again. Being sleepless at night is psychologically difficult.