So... NOT doing as well as I had hoped and I have pt twice a week. This has been hampered by a WICKED case of vertigo.
UGH
Going to therapy in a bit. Think good thoughts. My knee is super tight. I have been working on it, but I think I need to do more than I have. I need a COACH!!!
Slightly dizzy and SUPER cranky- pain and lack of sleep will do that to me. I am hoping that I improved a BIT since last week.
On the PLUS side, I have lost six pounds....
More thoughts later on being stir crazy and the lack of intelligent commercials!
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Monday, July 22, 2019
Staples and other post surgical adventures
I am sitting here, waiting on my primary care dr who was supposed to call me at 9. She's either late, or had blown me off. Can I charge HER for the missed appointment?
Seeing the surgeon today. They are going to take out the staples. I have too many to count, they look icky. As I recall this doesn't really hurt. I just want them OUT so I can move on to the next phase.
Yes I am doing my PT. Yes, it hurts, but I need to be able to SIT more than 20 minutes without needing to get up or ice it.
Some things just take time.
Apparently Norco gives you hallucinations. Who knew? ( everyone else!) I was seeing pink trees on the ceiling and had a nice convo with both my mother and my father ( although those MIGHT have been visits) I know I am hallucinating. It's not fun. I never understood the appeal of hallucinogens,
The surgery and aftercare went well and I came home the day after. Chris has been wonderful. I worry about HIM.
Keep a good thought for me around 2 pm when they take the staples out!
Seeing the surgeon today. They are going to take out the staples. I have too many to count, they look icky. As I recall this doesn't really hurt. I just want them OUT so I can move on to the next phase.
Yes I am doing my PT. Yes, it hurts, but I need to be able to SIT more than 20 minutes without needing to get up or ice it.
Some things just take time.
Apparently Norco gives you hallucinations. Who knew? ( everyone else!) I was seeing pink trees on the ceiling and had a nice convo with both my mother and my father ( although those MIGHT have been visits) I know I am hallucinating. It's not fun. I never understood the appeal of hallucinogens,
The surgery and aftercare went well and I came home the day after. Chris has been wonderful. I worry about HIM.
Keep a good thought for me around 2 pm when they take the staples out!
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Surgical thoughts
today is the day. Am I scared? YOU BET, but as the song says "It's ok to feel afraid, but don't let that stand in your way" He's talking about love, but you really can apply that wisdom to just about any endeavor in your life.
I am off work for six weeks. I have to stay HOME for two. So... if you are so inclined, PLEASE call me and come and see me- don't come by without calling, apparently they are giving me serious Norco and I might be totally gorked out in the bedroom...
I have books I may need more but I don't know. I have food- we bought a TON of easy to make stuff for Chris to try his cooking skills on ( he CAN cook)
I appreciate the good thoughts and prayers and encouragement. I am still having people tell me horror stories and I REALLY think that is counter-productive, to say the least.
I will be in Kaiser Pan City overnight. It's an afternoon surgery and a LONG one, so keep me in your thoughts around 2 pm today.
I've got this- and will have a dandy scar to show my grandsons ( yes there will be two of them in November- Heaven help Gogo!)
I am off work for six weeks. I have to stay HOME for two. So... if you are so inclined, PLEASE call me and come and see me- don't come by without calling, apparently they are giving me serious Norco and I might be totally gorked out in the bedroom...
I have books I may need more but I don't know. I have food- we bought a TON of easy to make stuff for Chris to try his cooking skills on ( he CAN cook)
I appreciate the good thoughts and prayers and encouragement. I am still having people tell me horror stories and I REALLY think that is counter-productive, to say the least.
I will be in Kaiser Pan City overnight. It's an afternoon surgery and a LONG one, so keep me in your thoughts around 2 pm today.
I've got this- and will have a dandy scar to show my grandsons ( yes there will be two of them in November- Heaven help Gogo!)
Friday, July 5, 2019
Happy Independence Day
It's the 4th of July and as I get myself ready to go out and watch the local parade in my small town ( NOTHING says Happy 4th like the red-white and blue-goat) I am thinking about the meaning of this holiday.
It's NO secret how I feel about the current occupant of the White House. I am especially appalled at his hijacking of a National Holiday for a thinly disguised campaign rally that ALL of us are paying for. I understand his party still owes about 7 million for his poorly attended inauguration.
I am thinking about my childhood here in the San Fernando Valley. A child of parents from "the Greatest Generation" I was raised with a fierce patriotism. I still get a lump in my throat when the flag passes by, remembering the sacrifices in WWII. I understand people who don't get the same feeling and applaud their right to speak out on the matter. Freedom allows us to have differences of opinion and to discuss these differences to effect change ( however if you think taking children from their parents and putting them in cages is a good idea,well, I will have to rethink our association)
We barbecues and lit sparklers and we kids all played with one another. I was blessed to live in a multicultural neighborhood and we all hung out together.
I grew up singing patriotic songs and learned some of the protest songs of the WPA. I still think Woody Guthrie's "This Land is your Land" is one of the finest "patriotic" songs I have ever sung.
To me, being a "patriot" does not mean "my Country right or wrong" but "my Country needs to be the best place for all people who love it" Maybe I'm not saying this right, but my earliest American Myers ancestor was with Washington at Valley Forge. I don't think he slept in a tent in the snow so rich people like Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell could get righter and put children in cages and somehow justify that. Isn't tyranny what they fought against? Whatever happened to "Give me your tire, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"? Only if you look like the Ruling Class I suppose...
It's NO secret how I feel about the current occupant of the White House. I am especially appalled at his hijacking of a National Holiday for a thinly disguised campaign rally that ALL of us are paying for. I understand his party still owes about 7 million for his poorly attended inauguration.
I am thinking about my childhood here in the San Fernando Valley. A child of parents from "the Greatest Generation" I was raised with a fierce patriotism. I still get a lump in my throat when the flag passes by, remembering the sacrifices in WWII. I understand people who don't get the same feeling and applaud their right to speak out on the matter. Freedom allows us to have differences of opinion and to discuss these differences to effect change ( however if you think taking children from their parents and putting them in cages is a good idea,well, I will have to rethink our association)
We barbecues and lit sparklers and we kids all played with one another. I was blessed to live in a multicultural neighborhood and we all hung out together.
I grew up singing patriotic songs and learned some of the protest songs of the WPA. I still think Woody Guthrie's "This Land is your Land" is one of the finest "patriotic" songs I have ever sung.
To me, being a "patriot" does not mean "my Country right or wrong" but "my Country needs to be the best place for all people who love it" Maybe I'm not saying this right, but my earliest American Myers ancestor was with Washington at Valley Forge. I don't think he slept in a tent in the snow so rich people like Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell could get righter and put children in cages and somehow justify that. Isn't tyranny what they fought against? Whatever happened to "Give me your tire, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"? Only if you look like the Ruling Class I suppose...
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