BONY UPDATE Recon on recovery. Done with OT/PT. Only thing the doc said I couldn't do was, and I quote, "fall down". We all live in fear of that I can tell you. Got the old walker out and using Kenny Cane anywhere not in the house. In my final physical analysis, physical therapist had me go through my paces like a Kentuck Derby show horse. Sock-blue-bed must have been my trumpian cognitive test. I of course added man, woman, television, camera, hockey puck, armadillo and coin toss. Then we moved onto the Olympic portion of the review. How many times can you sit-stand in 30 seconds. As it got sillier, I started waving my arms and doing dance steps every time I stood up. She said I tied the record for most sit-stands. If she had given me a number, I would have buried it, so that was most unfair. She mentioned she had a 94-year-old who nailed the test, less reps than me, but impressive. I'm averaging 3 to 5 miles and paying for it by the end of the day when I question the ability to stand on the injured leg and my mental ability to determine when enough is enough.
Taking out the stitches was fun, though I didn't complain until the nurse had left shutting the door which allowed me to go "ouch, ouch, ouch" in private. I have a skin fold that looks so much like a sewing boo boo where the material got caught up in the stitch. Apparently, that is not uncommon, and the remedy is to keep rubbing and squeezing the bumpy area until it pops. Again, "ouch, ouch, ouch". Doc showed me how my hip is ...."not like the others" as I am a small thing in certain areas and they had to really finagle (technical term) to get the big fat artificial hip joint to fit. As they "cemented" it in should hold. I am up to 2 hours of sleep at a time, so improvement.
REBELLION UPDATE A dilemma for many of us I imagine. A very good friend of mine of more than 20 years wants to know why we can't seem to find a date to set up a lunch or breakfast meet. I don't want to explode if she still thinks marmie is not so bad, we need to give him a chance or victim blame those who are being killed. Not sure she will, just don't want to find out. As the administration lays siege to Minneapolis (there is no other word for it) why aren't they rounding up illegals in Florida and Texas where illegals number in the millions not 130,000 like Minnesota. Oh yeah, it's not about immigration. And since he can't get his own by merit, the dick is happy to receive someone else's Nobel prize. Though if senility had an award I think he's nailed it.
Also, as a dictator wanna be he's been busy destroying the 60-year NATO alliance and stealing other country's oil just because. Though in retrospect, Europe is becoming stronger because of his demands and insults. Then as the UN embarrassed him (he did it to himself) he's setting up his own little UN over Gaza. Other members are also-ran, non-dominant countries but not the ones he's trying to "help" (Palestine & Israel). So, who's pocketing the billion-dollar entry fee?
Fun Facts we have to search for: the 50,000-dollar bonus and student loan forgiveness for new ICEYS is only good after 5 years of service to DHS. Gosh in 2031 rumple will be gone and they'll be in jail. Bleak comfort. Thank God for camera phones and the internet. Meanwhile some slashed funding is being quietly restored where we have won in court; DOGE really did not save the federal government any money (though what we have we're spending it on vanity projects); and a teenage Doge employee has sold our social security information. Who would have thought that was coming (answer-all of us).
AFTER GLOW I keep getting reminders about refilling my heavy-duty scripts prescribed after surgery. Then I get a long letter from my prescription company warning me about the dangers of opium addiction, etc etc. They're the ones sending me refills that I didn't ask for plus I am not using them anyway. I don't think I can get hooked on Tylenol, but at the end of the day when I'm trying to sleep, I wonder. Thank goodness I'm not pregnant right? Wonder if our Health Chief can get his drugs for free now?
The weather has been brutal snow and cold for two weeks now making me paranoid to step outside my comfort zone. Ice is under every nook and cranny just waiting to pounce on my fragile newly minted hip. If I'm going down, I'm taking somebody with me, hopefully someone with mass for a soft landing. We are finding ingenious ways to drop me at the door though. As I've said before, a lot of handicapped folks are easily getting through their day as most of the spots are already taken when you're looking. Positioning was helpful though when we left Meijers and my Impala's 10-year battery gave up the ghost. There was plenty of room in front of us to get a jump. But the OH was scout-prepared and had a portable jump charger in the back seat. Couple of minutes later we were humming...on the way to the auto shop for a new one. So, my first trip out was interesting, and expensive. Now if it would just stop snowing and blowing and freezing...Peace out/Stay strong/Never forget/Never forgive. 💔💔💔
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