My wife had knee replacement surgery this past Monday. She came home from the hospital Tuesday afternoon. Obviously, she has some tough rehab to go thru. Since she came home, she tends to get out of bed around 9:30 a.m to have breakfast. She gets back in bed around 1 pm after a light lunch. Then she gets up again around 4 pm. Around 8 pm (after supper) she goes back to bed. I then wake her at 11 pm so she can take pain meds. When she is out of bed, she's in her recliner. Obviously, throughout the day she has some rehab exercises to do - some in bed and others in the chair. When she's in her recliner, we hook up an ice machine that circulates cold water on her knee. When she's in bed, she has a pad with pockets that hold cold gel packs. That's the background.
When she's in bed after supper, I get dressed. I put on thigh highs, bra, forms, dress, lipstick, jewelry, and wig. Naturally, I already am wearing panties. When I go to the bedroom at 11 pm, I remove the wig, earrings, and lipstick as I know she doesn't care to see me with them on. So tonight, when she went to bed, she said she didn't want the gel packs. Fine. She's a big girl and if she doesn't want them it's fine. So, I go get dressed which, by the way, she's fully aware of what I'm doing. I no sooner get completely dressed and she calls me (cell phones are great for in-house communication in a circumstance like we have right now) and asks me to bring in the cold gel packs. As I'm walking into the bedroom, I apologize for being fully dressed. No problem she says. After putting the gel packs on her knee, I lean down to get a kiss and say, "You probably don't want me to kiss you with lipstick on." She confirmed it and kissed my cheek.
When 11 pm rolled around, I removed the wig, lipstick, and hoop earrings. I went in the bedroom and the 1st thing she says is "Why did you get unglamorous?" I told her the truth - I want to kiss her goodnight. I was really taken aback by her questioning why I did that. Anyway, I'm wearing my F cup teardrops tonight. When I leaned down to kiss her, she said, "your boobs are really hard." With that she asked that I rest my boobs closer to her stomach so she could hold my head by her boobs. I've no idea if this qualifies as just a little bit more acceptence or not. But, I'm thrilled she made no objection to how I presented to her. What I think this may be is the door starting to open for me to wear a wig and lipstick in front of her in the evenings when I get dressed and she is still up.
Anyway, the best thing is she seems to be doing decently well with her rehab. A neighbor couple stopped by right at supper time to check on her. He had his knee replaced about 7 years ago. When he told my wife he was playing golf about 2 months after surgery, her eyes lit up. I'm glad he gave her this encouragement.
