Well hello everyone! Freedancer here catching everyone up on the latest news! On the 12th of Jan I had the first of several surgeries that are on the books to be accomplished. Right now as we speak, my dominant right hand is in a very attractive bright pink cast.
I underwent the first of my CMC joint surgeries and am happy to say it went very well. The pain was actually quite minimal but the real challenge was learning to do everything with my left hand. It is amazing how difficult that simple action is. Don't let anyone tell you it is easy because it is not!
I was lucky to have a fantastic hand surgeon, Dr. Smith, from the Billings Sports Medicine Clinic. I was very worried that when I was under the troughs of anesthesia that I would yell out "Danger Will Robinson or Oh the pain...the pain" but lucky for me I behaved myself. I also was lucky to have the anesthesiologist that I had for my shoulder surgery in 2012. I was so happy to see him. I will be in this cast for 4 weeks and then the VA will take over my PT. I have everything great to say about the VA. The new ARCH program paid for my surgery for me and they were just fantastic!
My beautiful daughter came up from Belgrade and assisted me for 4 days. She brought my little grandson with her. He is so sweet and getting so big! He is 7 months old and has eyelashes to die for! I've been off work for two weeks now and of course all that time was vacation so there goes this years vacation. I go back to work this coming Monday part time and the next Monday will be full time. I think I am ready and my retired hubby said he enjoyed having a taste of what my retirement will be like in a couple of years but is ready to dive back into his solitude again!
We took a trip up to our cabin getaway yesterday and I thought it would be a good time to put the new feather mattress topper on the master bed. As I was taking off the blankets, I noticed a bunch of the mouse poison pellets down in the corner of the blankets. It dawned on me and I finally knew where all the mouse pellets were going, the little ratturdes were bringing them all the way up from downstairs and stashing them in our bed, to get back at us! Those are some pretty smart and obviously very vindictive rodents! Well, I got rid of it quickly after I showed my hubby what was going on. The war is on now and it wont be pretty!!
The break at the cabin was kind of nice. We ate pop tarts, drank coffee and watched North by Northwest on the DVD player. Great movie! So that is my story for now. I am actually typing with one hand and 4 fingers and not doing too bad. Cheers! Freedancer
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