Not sure this is exactly what is meant by that phrase these days.
Mom’s surgery on Monday went well. It was potentially an artificial knee recall/replacement but turned out only to be the liner (artificial cartilage essentially) and so she was home Thursday and doing well.
Yesterday, my grandmother (her mother) tripped on a rug at her [...]
sleeping in a walking cast is not as easy or comfortable as it sounds. First, you have to figure out a way not to put all that salt, dirt, mud, etc on the thing into your bed! I’m using a pillowcase. Then, you have to get it in there before you pull up the nice [...]
I went in to the Dr. because it just didn’t feel the same as other sprains have at day 5. After 8 x-rays she got a shot that shows clearly that the metatarsal is broken.
She will wait to hear form the orthopedist on whether it is displaced enough to need to be set. At which [...]
It’s Christmas morn. Before the sun is up – at least when I started writing this. I’m on the couch and the door is open for the X to come in with stocking presents and to have Christmas breakfast with the boys.
The boys will probably sleep until mid morning. The dog is exhausted from a [...]
the last step that is.
Got up to make DS1 a nice warm healthy breakfast before his first cross-country ski meet. Missed the bottom stair. or maybe the bottom two. all I know is I found myself on my back at the bottom with my ankel swelling up and the toes hurting ominously.
luckily its a high-on-the-ankle [...]
