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.
more later,

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! :-)

January 16, 2011

Well, sadya is gone to toronto, and gammie is in the rehab center after her surgery, which was on the 7th. she is doing, i guess, as well as any 88 year old would be doing who has been in constant pain for the last 5 years and who was unable to walk toward the end of the wait.  she just doesn't want to do the physio. she finally got a physio therapist that she likes so she is finally doing the exercises. nikki, comes everyday, and warren and blair alternate during the evening.  i call about three times a day.
Meanwhile, i can do steps now, and walk unassisted totally.  still using the handicapped sticker cause the hip gets tired after a trip to the grocery store.  gotta see the football game, so more, hopefully, tomorrow.

January 2, 2011

well, new year.  christmas was very quiet cause none of the kids could come home.  sadya is soooo popular now that she's leaving it will be a wonder if she gets packed in time to go!  gammie had a couple of really bad weeks where jr was picking her up every night... she was on some pain medication that made her loopy as hell and she couldn't function.  talked to maria about it and we took her off everything.  just motrin and tylenol.  she is much better but i have to take her to the bathroom which is wrecking my nights!  warren brought over a baby monitor and that is making it easier.  her surgery is friday and neither one of us can wait.  i am hoping she is a lot better when she comes home and can get her self to the bathroom. 

Today marks 2 months from my surgery, and all is going well.  doctor said i can drive and i can break the 90 degree angle, so that is good.  it of course snowed when i went for my checkup but i made it.   the doctor sent a note to physio for them to start range of motion exercises, but they haven't yet, so i went on the internet and got 4 exercises that i am now incorporating into my exercises.   i have kamau  trying to find me a small tens machine and with that i can eliminate physio for the most part. 

sadya leaves teusday and gammie has her surgery on friday.  it will be a very strange break, and will be strange for a while.  we'll have to get sadya a webcam so we can skype on a regular basis.

 more later...

DECEMBER 20, 2010

i know, it's been a while.   been busy, had a snow storm last week, and didn't make to physio at all.  instead i did it at home and went up and down the basement stairs a few times a day.  14 steps.  thought i was doing good, but found out today when i went back to physio that i should have done the stairs, maybe twice  a day, not 3 or 4 times... and i wondered why i was sore last week!  i fell over the dog, today, and for once, it was not his fault!  i knew where he was, had walked past him already this morning, and  on the way this time, i looked out the window to see if the recycle bins were out there, and completely forgot that he was in the same place he had been in for hours!  tripped up, of course it was the bad leg ( the one not yet replaced) and couldn't lift it over him and fell with a serious thud!  at least i thought it was a serious thud, but neither gammie nor sadya woke up!  luckily i was able to fall on my right side, and it took me at least 15 minutes to gather myself and get up off the floor.  after apologizing to monster (the dog) i went on about my business. 

i did mention it at physio, and was told that i should really feel it in the morning... great! i go for my check-up with the orthopedic surgeon tomorrow morning.  i was planning on driving myself until i heard that we are supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow in the early morning hours.  I'm hoping Jr can drive me, but he will probably have to work... anyway,  i' hoping to get the okay to drive and maybe break the 90 degree angle (which i have to do every day to put some socks on) on a regular basis... i also want to establish the date of the other hip surgery and stuff like that.  anyway, i have to be there at 8:10 am, so that combined with the eclipse, = little to no sleep!  but that's alright... i still have 2 weeks with sadya home, so I'll just nap a little! HA!  and put the turkey breasts and legs in the crock pot and dinner will be done!  more later,