update
Grania on May 27 2010 | Filed under: Beasts, Friends, The Journey, home sweet home, the body project
I’ve been a little scarce around here lately.
I’m gearing up for major surgery in less than 2 weeks. Going through all of the pre-surgical appointments, getting all the forms filled out, planning what needs to be done to get the house ready, the roommate ready, the bills paid, the important paperwork updated, and keeping the hand sanitizer close by. If I get sick now it will be post-poned, and that would suck.
One slight complication is that I hurt my knee a few weeks ago and it isn’t getting better. My chiropractor has been putting the TENS machine on it twice a week, and today he told me that if I weren’t having surgery, he’d be sending me for an MRI. The ACL or Meniscus or something is probably torn. If it was just muscular it would be getting better. I’ve got more important things going on, so I’ll deal with that later. Being off of it for a week or two should help, so we’ll see how that goes.
and…Just because I don’t have enough going on right now, I also learned that the fees for my cell phone were going up, so if I wanted to bail on the contract and go back to my old company, who has better equipment for 20% less of a monthly bill, I had to do it before the end of the month. That became a bit of a hassle, but I got it straightened out in time. Unfortunately, the phone that I want is backordered for a couple of weeks, so I had to go back to my old, not smart phone. I’m now going through app withdrawal
This wasn’t the best timing to do that. I have to carry both phones still, my iPhone still operates as an iPod touch, and it’s the one that I get my work e-mail on. The new smartphone should arrive when I’m home recovering, and that’s fine. I have enough technology to get me through, and it will give me something new to play with about the time I’m getting bored to tears from laying around.
So, for the holiday weekend, I’m taking the cats to the vet, shopping for mulch so we can finish the flower beds that we’ve started, cleaning the house, organizing my office, finishing painting the garden boxes that Roomie made for me and then planting them, spending some time with my best friend at the arboretum, moving a couple of pieces of furniture, laundry, cooking, and one of these days I have to let my extended family know what’s going on.
I’ve got three days to get that all done, so I’m not too worried. As long as I don’t do a lot of stairs, I’ll be fine.
Roomie came through today in a big way too. I tried to mow the lawn a couple of weeks ago and paid for it with my knee. It was a week before it was back to only hurting when I straightened it. Today I came home and the lawn was mowed. He found a neighbor kid to do it for a reasonable amount. The kid also cleans gutters, trims trees, and probably any other assorted odd job that needs doing around here. That’s a huge worry that’s off my plate. I’m very thankful that he’s here to take care of those kinds of things for me. Now I can devote the small amount of energy that I have to spend on the yard making it prettier and not just maintaining it. That is very cool.
Side note to my real life friends: my cancer blog has been revived and the details of the new medical stuff are there. Let me know if you need the link.
Namaste









