COMMENTS

i know i sound as dumb as a bag of bricks, but i did not realize that there were comments for me to read!  OKAY, stop laughing!  i just didn't realize!  i thought nobody read this shit but me! i'm sooooo sorry i haven't acknowledged them before!  thanks guys!  i'll do better in the future, i swear i will! LOL

so anyway, i actually posted something on my birthday.  i  don't usually post stuff, cause i don't really think i have anything worthwhile to say, but i said something to the effect of what the year was like for me ... kind of musing to myself about the pros and cons of the past year (believe me...there were more cons than pros) but at the same time, i wanted to send good vibes out to the universe and so i flipped the script and said basically the same things that i was thankful for for the year.  I couldn't believe the number of responses i got!  it was amazing!  people i know from playing games, but have never met in person, folks i haven't talked to in YEARS..okay i'll say it.. DECADES contacted me!  it was wonderful!  thanks to everyone who posted on my wall!

i am all wrapped up in trying to get my mom's permanent resident visa completed.  when we brought her over they said at the tunnel it would take about 6 months... it's been 4 years and we're still going through the process.
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so, i know i haven't been on in a while, but i have had these two new hips to get used to...not to mention the other crap that has happened...i am SOOOOOO glad 2011 is over.  worst year EVER!  besides my hips being replaced, my mon had her right hip replaced and it almost killed her.  as it is she will be on oral antibiotics or the rest of her life.  she has been in the hospital at least three times and on an IV pick line antibiotic twice for 8 weeks each time.  each infection knocked her down to the point of not being able to sit up, eat or anything else.  she was basically living off of Ensure and activia for months at a time!  on top of that, Jr., the hubby's job collapsed and in moving to a new job the annual income went down $37,000.  we are hanging on to the house by our fingernails.  but the kids are doing great, and on top of that, my brother dale, whom we haven't seen in 23 years came to detroit to see my mom.  problem?  he didn't bring enough money to eat or stay for the month he designated for the visit.  there is REALLY bad blood between the brothers... what was he thinking?  at the tender age of 61, who would take a trip across country ( he lives in LA) with no return ticket and no money to live on while you're here?  WHO DOES THAT?  anyway, he's on his way back to la now and finally got to eat. ...anyway, my hips are getting better, even though i get the "weebil wobble" when they are tired and i can feel myself walking like frankenstein.  i don't have a lot of stamina yet, cause i went for around 12 years no being able to work my core muscles at all, and the last thing the dr said was to give it time cause you didn't get his way over night, so don't think you can start doing sit ups and get back to the way you were over night.
getting better all the time though... i can go up and down the basement stairs, and do not kick the dog in the head if he is in my way anymore! LOL  the problem is... now that i can step over him, the "slug in a suit" now lifts his head when i'm going by so now i'm "high stepping" to get over him.  i guess it's all good though, he's physio therapy in a furry suit!  
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April 7,2011

so i am now beginning my 6th week.  i don't really need the walker anymore, but after about 25 steps, i'm walking like quasimodo, so i use the cane all the time.  i'm up to 30 reps of the exercises.  i'n not in constant pain anymore, and a motrin in the day and one at night seems to be enough.  when walking unassisted, it kind of feels like i'm walking on stilts, or i'm walking on something precariously wobbly.  it gets a little better everyday, but i feel like a weeble! except where weebles wobble but don't fall down, i feel like i could easily do a face plant at any moment! LOL  anyway, when out in public, i keep the cane with me and also keep jr close.
i must admit, after the first week when i wanted to kill him, jr has been an invaluable help.  he's learned to load the dishwasher and unload it and grocery shop and has even kind of figured out where everything goes in the kitchen!  amazing!  who knew?  anyway, big test today... going with hin to the grocery store today and will be riding on one of those cart things!   i'll try real hard not to run into things or knock things over.
anyway, i exfoliate my legs everyday and have to put a TON of lotion on cause a month with ted stockings and not being able to lotion (bad for the fabric of the stockings) there was dead skin flying everywhere!  when we took them off, there was dry skin EVERYWHERE!  my legs looked like someone threw flour on me or something.  Yuck!  i don't know whether to have a ritual TED stocking burning or keep them just to remember once in a while.  i don't want to take having working hips for granted at any time in this lifetime, and i had totally forgotten how it felt to be virtually pain free!  WHEW!
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MARCH 27,2011

okay, it's sunday, nothing is on tv, i've read everything i feel like reading, and i am BORED and have cabin fever.  yesterday i got out to get jrs eyes checked and to go to shoppers and hobble around and get a few things i needed.  it wasn't enough!  it's cold but sunny, the hip is getting better, the exercises kill me everyday, but i'm up to 20 reps  and then 5 more later in the day.  my schedule or lack thereof, is affording me more freedom than i have had in my adult life.  But since i can't drive and have to walk in public with a crutch, it is all for naught!  and i must be left legged, cause using the crutch the first time was a piece of  cake, but with the right hip, having the crutch on the left side is a trip! i expect to do a face plant at any moment! LOL  i'm having trouble getting used to it.  i'd better practise with a cane cause that will be awkward too.    Now if  jrs job would just get back on track before we end up in the poor house for real, it will all even out.  trying to get better fast so mom can come back home. she will be out of the rehab in about a week, but will have to go to blairs till i can get around better.  i can't take care of her when i can't cook for my self.  oh well, back to my second set of reps...maybe 10 more tomorrow!

Mach 22, 2011

okay, so we're in the third week, and i'm still using the walker.  it's getting easier, i can get in and out of bed like a pro now, but getting around monster can still be a chore. when he's feeling his cheerios, he likes to make a game of me trying to get by!  At first i humored him, but or course, he took it to the extreme.  so i ran right over him.  i think he's got the message now.
however, this morning, he did one for the books.  for some strange reason, jr didn't let him out before he went to work, and of course, he had to go not ten minutes after he left.  this is 6:30 am and it's still dark.  and muddy. and kind of cold.  after about 15 minutes i hear him bark, but he's not on the deck.  so i turn on the outside light and see him wrapped around the back of the hot tub, and stuck.  about 30 feet from the bottom step of the deck. so i had to get dressed, grab a crutch and hobble down the steps, through the mud and unhook him from the tarp.  the things i called that dog!  after i unhooked him he went up on the deck waiting to go in the house, but it took me a full 15 minutes to get there myself!  he sure ain't no Lassie, that's for sure.  he's had enough sense to stay out of my way since then but i'm still mad.  it took 10 more minutes to scrape the mud off my crutch!  damn dog!
so...i figured since i was mad anyway, i might as well do my exercises.  so there's more swearing while i get that done!  i think now that it's 10:00 am and i've foraged for food already,  and pretty much invented a new language of swear words, there's nothing left to do but go take a nap!        Damn dog!

andaluzian flu

february 22, 2011


i know i'ts been a while, but the hip is healing fine.  i am to have the second hip done on march 3.  meanwhile, saturday last, i got the flu.  for all the stand off i've had against flu shots (and there have been many) and not getting one for years,,.. thinking, (i'll take my chances)  i now say GET THE DAMN SHOT!  this is AWFUL! it's like on the bill cosby show when the parents got the andaluzian flu! my eyelashes hurt!  non functioning for days!  but i did cut it short, but i'ts not for the feint of heart.
it takes 4 hot toddys every 24 hours and eating and sleeping in between.  it cut it short for me.  i did it cause i need to get over it by the time of surgery.  and i ain't got time for this mess!  my advice, GET THE DAMN SHOT!  this is hell warmed over! LOL  but i am getting better and i will get caught up in a few days.
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february 6, 2011

okay, so it's been a while,... but a lot of stuff has happened.  my mom got out of rehab too early, she had her hip done  Jan 7, and went to rehab facility for a week and a half, and then she came home against doctors wishes.  so she was home, and were exercising and icing and stuff and then on feb 3rd she fell while i was in the shower.  hurt her knee a bit and couldn't put weight on the left knee.  so she had to get that checked out and then realized she came out of rehab too early and went back.  she is doing good, and hopefully she will be home soon and can function.

meanwhile i go back in march 3, for my right hip.  prayers are welcome, and i think it will all be fine.  my plan... salsa by july! :-)