Remember how astonishingly well the left knee replacement went? This one is going even better. Three weeks and two days and I'm off the walker and only using the cane when I go out. I don't use it at all when I'm here. My flexibility range as of yesterday was 0 / 127 (the target is 0 / 130). I've lost another five pounds, which puts me at a ( Read more... )

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln ( Read more... )

I wish I were at my desktop so I could tap about more than the highlights of my return from the hospital, but I'm not to the Sitting Up In a Computer Chair part of the program yet ( Read more... )

I'm alive and awake and deliciously high. I was quite coherent when I spoke with Ro and left voicemails for other folks. Then the nurse came in and said there was PT in my future and did I want some pain pills to go with the morphine and that sounded like a good idea so I said yes and she brought me two and I took them. But I was in very little ( Read more... )

Time for the Anxious Feels to kick in and remind me, "Hey, you're having major surgery tomorrow morning and you're going to be in a lot of pain for the next couple of weeks". I think they started last night, right after Kevin Costner won Ben's Emmy. I pulled at my hair (quite a trick, since I don't have much at the moment) and moaned, "Anybody ( Read more... )

For the past two days I've been going to a "bracing yourself for retirement" seminar at the University Center. It's been very interesting and informative, and I learned a lot about my options for retirement checks from U.T. and Social Security. I think the most interesting thing I learned was this: At my retirement age (66) (which is many years ( Read more... )

Happy belated birthday, dragovianknight!

Sorry I missed the actual day. Hope it was a great one!

Today is pre-op blood work and stuff day. First of all, as I was getting my stuff together and said ooh I need a book for while I'm waiting, I realized the three things I'm reading are all on the iPad--that's one fanfic and two amazon purchases. And one of the purchases is actually sort of a mix...someone finally did a novelization of Shada. ( Read more... )

The icon has nothing to do with anything I have to say--I just felt like looking at it ( Read more... )

Somehow the pilot episode for Elementary was leaked, and somehow I managed to see the first 25 or so minutes, and naturally I feel compelled (as if by some evil force) to comment upon those 25 or so minutes. Rambling thoughts ahead...

( feel free to skip them; I'm just talking to myself )