Gentle Routines....Wednesday and Thursday

Both the Home Health nurse, Dennis, and the Physical Therapist, Kirby, were here yesterday.

I can walk normally without a cane or a walker and have been able to since about the third day.

Next Tuesday the doctor will take the staples out and I will then schedule for out patient therapy.

Recovery is moving right along.

Yesterday was 82 degrees! It was late afternoon when I realized I was HOT!

I wasn't expecting heat in January!

Louis Dean had gone on errands and when he came home, he finished up the electrical work and I turned on the bedroom AC, my sound machine and the oil diffuser - and then proceeded to take a most wonderful nap!!!

Sherry worked some from the Irving office this week so she stayed with us last night and we had such a good visit! It's been a muddy week down at the ranch so this was a good time for her to be here in the city.

Louis Dean bought some more steaks on sale at really good prices from Kroger and he's been cooking them in a skillet on the stove. They are delicious! That's what he made for dinner last night.

Sherry and I sat out in the gazebo for a few minutes while he got things started in the kitchen.

It was the first time she's seen the gazebo since he got it all back up.

Then she went in and made salad and along with baked potatoes - dinner was served!

For dessert we had some rich cheesecake Amber brought over to us. Made even more special topped off with a couple of Bourbon Cherries from Aldi!

I've not been staying up late these days although I sometimes get up and piddle around about 5:00 in the morning before going back to bed. Nor do I sleep really late, either. I'm usually up by 9:00 or so.

This morning I woke up to a chilly rainy day......my favorite kind!

Louis Dean was still asleep so I slipped quietly out of the bedroom and set myself up in the living room to have my coffee and quiet time.

By the time he got up - I was ready to go back to bed for a little nap.

Kirby comes between 12:30 and 1:00 and the exercises don't take more than half an half.

I've been doing some light housework and have spent as much time out of bed as I have in lately.

They say the pain usually lasts 4 months or so and I believe I am over the worst of it.

This morning I took a pain pill - I couldn't see doing those exercises while I was already hurting - because they do hurt! I was taking an afternoon nap when the pill totally wore off and the pain woke me up.

This time I took a couple of over the counter Tylenol and iced my  knee.

It worked!

Normally, ice doesn't help me much but it is now becoming my friend.

I'm really grateful to be doing so well.

I sleep good, too, which is important.

This evening I started sewing a denim quilt for a young man I have known and loved since the day he was born.

I thought I had made him a quilt years ago but I had not! NOW I am!!

Back before Thanksgiving I counted out the squares and stacked everything up on the end of the sewing machine, thinking I would get it done before Christmas sewing it a little at a time.

That didn't happen.

When the kids came over Sunday, they did what they always do - they found denim squares and wrote messages on them and/or drew pictures. I intend to use all the ones they've drawn on in a small quilt someday. They didn't realize I had plans for the stacks of denim and they picked and chose and did their thing. So today when I started to sew - I realize I no longer have the same plan I started with in November. No worries! I have plenty of denim and it feels good to be doing a project again.