Silver Linings

Good news! I’m turning a new page!  You may know that I had total shoulder replacement surgery in January. As I write this I am just passing the six-week mark. It was painful for a while, but that’s another milestone I have passed—I have very little pain except when I’m doing my exercises—then it hurts a lot.  So, I have spent the past six weeks in my chair, reading, texting, playing games on my iPad, and being waited on hand and foot by my wonderful husband, who has been an enormous help, doing the cooking and chores, and he is also my chauffeur to physical therapy, all while he still attends biweekly cardiac rehab from his triple bypass surgery in October. He’s doing great, by the way. I have started walking again. I just didn’t have the oomph to get outside and move. Not to mention it has been cold and raining most of the time. But yesterday I went. Just one street, and it wore me out, but I did it. It’s amazing how much energy a surgery takes to heal and, at my age, I don’...

 Where did the time go?  It has been a long and winding road.  I didn’t do much in 22-23, Jim had a bunch of health problems and I was in caregiver mode for a long time. I couldn’t do much sewing because of my neck, nor could I play much golf because of my shoulder and my extracurricular duties at home. The times were bleak, to say the least. Jim had practically every ailment known to mankind. And some that weren’t. But I think we’re beyond that now. I’m hoping that this year is better.  I started this last summer, I had to put it away when Jim had his bypass surgery. I don’t know if I will finish it.  Jim waits for triple bypass surgery.  Annnnd, he made it! He’s finally home. Now my work begins. Two months later, we finally had Christmas. We skipped everything last year. He looks pretty healthy.  Now it is my turn. After years of tolerating a painful right shoulder, which impeded both golf and quilting, I had it replaced with a brand new one. Well, t...