Gardening, House, Mother's Day, Health
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helwenSaturday we did some gardening and visited some friends. Sunday a.m., construction for fitzw in the dining room, cleaning/packing/moving and a little gardening for me. Then up to the farm for Mother's Day. Planted some lovely pansies we got at Golden Harvest, which Marian loves. fitzw did a bunch of stuff around the farm. Susan and Warren and maybe some others also did some work earlier, so that the barn's surrounds are looking nicer. We'll be forming some weekend work parties in June/July, to go through the barn and sort/toss/clean. It's a huge barn, so it will take all the weekends we can put in. We'll likely be canning our trips to GNEW and SRWC this year, between the extra travel to the farm and the cost of gas.
I played cribbage with Marian while L was off doing stuff, and happily she won the majority of the games -- a good present for Mother's Day (and no, I wasn't trying to lose). Cribbage is part skill, part luck, and a few weeks ago I pretty much creamed her... it was embarrassing, but she was actually pretty amused by the whole thing in spite of only having one once out of about a dozen games... the number of double runs and freak combinations was amazing. She's the better player I think -- certainly she has more experience and is better at math, for that matter. I'm an intuitive player, and I think that throws her occasionally. We have a good time, regardless.
Covered up the plants with hay last night, in case of frost. Uncovered things this morning and everything looks peachy. Dug up some plants that need moving, and will be going out presently to finish replanting them elsewhere.
Taking some plants and possibly some hay up to Sunderland today.
Had to ease off on some of my PT exercises... a couple of them involve the legs, and my knees haven't been great. And nearly put my upper back into spasm yesterday during the games, just reaching down to get a card Marian had dropped. Should probably go for a walk today; maybe that will help some things to sort themselves out. And should probably take some anti-inflammatories. I've been trying not to take them this past week if possible, but my activity level has gone down correspondingly and the shoulder was bugging me something fierce this morning. And I really need to be able to do more of my PT.
I did agree to work on a client this Tuesday morning at home, but it's an older person so I won't need my full strength or mobility to do the work.
Sigh. I have one more PT session, then I'm on my own for a few more weeks, to see if I can regain sufficient use of the shoulder. If not, surgery may be the next option, and I'm definitely not keen on that. Aside from being surgery, it would pretty much can most of my summer plans, and my fall plans as well. I can accept not being able to do some things like practicing archery and stuff, but if I can't even weave, that would kill my plans for having textiles to show/sell at the fall festival.
As I go through the PT and such, I'm remembering things that have always been different about my right side, and making the connections. The acromial hook has always been there; it isn't a later development. Even the circulation and nerve responses are different than on the left... Well, I just have to do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens. I just wish I knew whether or not I'll ever go back to working as an MT on more than a casual basis. I hate not being able to plan... even I don't enjoy this much of life being up in the air.
I played cribbage with Marian while L was off doing stuff, and happily she won the majority of the games -- a good present for Mother's Day (and no, I wasn't trying to lose). Cribbage is part skill, part luck, and a few weeks ago I pretty much creamed her... it was embarrassing, but she was actually pretty amused by the whole thing in spite of only having one once out of about a dozen games... the number of double runs and freak combinations was amazing. She's the better player I think -- certainly she has more experience and is better at math, for that matter. I'm an intuitive player, and I think that throws her occasionally. We have a good time, regardless.
Covered up the plants with hay last night, in case of frost. Uncovered things this morning and everything looks peachy. Dug up some plants that need moving, and will be going out presently to finish replanting them elsewhere.
Taking some plants and possibly some hay up to Sunderland today.
Had to ease off on some of my PT exercises... a couple of them involve the legs, and my knees haven't been great. And nearly put my upper back into spasm yesterday during the games, just reaching down to get a card Marian had dropped. Should probably go for a walk today; maybe that will help some things to sort themselves out. And should probably take some anti-inflammatories. I've been trying not to take them this past week if possible, but my activity level has gone down correspondingly and the shoulder was bugging me something fierce this morning. And I really need to be able to do more of my PT.
I did agree to work on a client this Tuesday morning at home, but it's an older person so I won't need my full strength or mobility to do the work.
Sigh. I have one more PT session, then I'm on my own for a few more weeks, to see if I can regain sufficient use of the shoulder. If not, surgery may be the next option, and I'm definitely not keen on that. Aside from being surgery, it would pretty much can most of my summer plans, and my fall plans as well. I can accept not being able to do some things like practicing archery and stuff, but if I can't even weave, that would kill my plans for having textiles to show/sell at the fall festival.
As I go through the PT and such, I'm remembering things that have always been different about my right side, and making the connections. The acromial hook has always been there; it isn't a later development. Even the circulation and nerve responses are different than on the left... Well, I just have to do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens. I just wish I knew whether or not I'll ever go back to working as an MT on more than a casual basis. I hate not being able to plan... even I don't enjoy this much of life being up in the air.
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Date: 2007-05-14 03:12 pm (UTC)At least the shoulder can be fixed one way or the other; better now rather than later when maybe things won't be so easily dealt with. The price sucks of course, and I don't mean money! Believe me, I empathize with you!
:)
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Date: 2007-05-14 09:20 pm (UTC)Well, I don't want to be known as a whiner, but I _would_ like a little more direction about what I should be doing... no, strike that. I know more or less what I should be doing. It's the how-to-get-there that's giving me problems. I am meditating, really I am. Guess I need to review things, and maybe the question I need to be asking will make itself known.
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Date: 2007-05-14 06:30 pm (UTC)I know what it's like to have a Sword of Damocles hanging over one's head (literally)... and what's kept me together is living as if all will be well. I have no idea what the September MRI will tell, or how long I could delay any needed surgical intervention, or what. But at this point I have nothing to lose by going ahead with my plans for the next year or so as if the results will be the same as they were in March, so I might as well be optimistic.
Good luck no matter what happens - you'll ultimately be fine at the end of all this. Perhaps it won't be exactly what you want, but who knows what opportunities may arise in the wake of change?
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Date: 2007-05-14 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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