Monday, June 27, 2011
Enjoying the last few minutes of life before surgery!
Heading to surgery for the left hip. Looks like a beautiful day. I took my anti-bacterial shower and I am packed and ready to go. Just wish that I could have a cup of coffee!!! Be in touch soon.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Off to Hip Surgery in the Morning - Left Hip this time!
Hello Followers:
I am very sorry that I have not posted in a while - I have been in denial about surgery again and also trying to cram as much stuff in prior to surgery and doing it all while not feeling quite so good. I really shouldn't complain - I am in a lot better shape than a lot of other people I know - and some of them don't even have major illnesses! :)
If you have been around me at all lately, you know that I am not happy to be having hip replacement surgery again. I have done by best not to think about it - I was not happy about it the first time and am even less happy this time around. Okay - I will stop all of my whining and leave you with some thoughts, comments, and general musings.
First, I would like to mention that lots of friends have called and sent cards and notes and met me for dinner and lunch and just had great conversations. A big thank you to all of you - it is great to have such a wonderful support network. I don't know how I would continue without all of the the love, friendship and support that has been bestowed upon me.
Second, I have been organizing things at my house - I have so many half-done projects going on. I can't seem to finish anything! Prior to getting sick in October of 2009, I was working on archiving some old black and white and childhood photographs and organizing them in chronological order. Well, needless to say, all that stuff is now in a dozen boxes in various stages of incompletness all over my basement. My immediate task was to just get all the photos and photo stuff all in one place. And, I did - sort of. It is not 100%, but it is fairly close. I now have four or five, nice see-through plastic bins, filled and labeled. So, I feel good that I actually accomplished something that I have been working on for a long time. In the process, I found some photographs that made me really think - some made me laugh and some made me cry and some just befuddled me - I had no clue who some of the people in the photographs are or what on earth was going on in some of them! I will have plenty of stories about some of my findings after I return from surgery and have a bit more time to gather my thoughts.
Also, a good friend took me to dinner at P.F. Changs the other night - yummy dinner and great conversation. Nice to be out and about, especially knowing that I won't be out and about much for a while after tomorrow. Anyway, I brought along a couple of photos from my scavenger hunt and we laughed and reminisced and had a good time. Wow - I had some big hair in the 90's! After dinner, the waitress brought the check and fortune cookies and my fortune cookie contained the following fortune, "Look forward to great fortune and a new lease on life!". So - is that appropriate or what????
There have been a couple of other luncheons and dinners and great conversations these past few weeks, but I will have to save some of the stories for another time. I will leave with this though, as I was packing my suitcase to go to the hospital, I was feeling a bit down. I just don't want to have another surgery and be in therapy again. And, in the background, I could hear, Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" playing on the radio and it really gave me a boost and cheered me up. Oddly enough, the next song was "Moon Shadow" by Cat Stevens. Needless to say, I have now turned the radio off - I have felt like a moon shadow has been following me for a long time now and don't need any reminders!
Don't worry - "I Will Survive" is the song that is still playing in my head. I'll be in touch real soon!
I am very sorry that I have not posted in a while - I have been in denial about surgery again and also trying to cram as much stuff in prior to surgery and doing it all while not feeling quite so good. I really shouldn't complain - I am in a lot better shape than a lot of other people I know - and some of them don't even have major illnesses! :)
If you have been around me at all lately, you know that I am not happy to be having hip replacement surgery again. I have done by best not to think about it - I was not happy about it the first time and am even less happy this time around. Okay - I will stop all of my whining and leave you with some thoughts, comments, and general musings.
First, I would like to mention that lots of friends have called and sent cards and notes and met me for dinner and lunch and just had great conversations. A big thank you to all of you - it is great to have such a wonderful support network. I don't know how I would continue without all of the the love, friendship and support that has been bestowed upon me.
Second, I have been organizing things at my house - I have so many half-done projects going on. I can't seem to finish anything! Prior to getting sick in October of 2009, I was working on archiving some old black and white and childhood photographs and organizing them in chronological order. Well, needless to say, all that stuff is now in a dozen boxes in various stages of incompletness all over my basement. My immediate task was to just get all the photos and photo stuff all in one place. And, I did - sort of. It is not 100%, but it is fairly close. I now have four or five, nice see-through plastic bins, filled and labeled. So, I feel good that I actually accomplished something that I have been working on for a long time. In the process, I found some photographs that made me really think - some made me laugh and some made me cry and some just befuddled me - I had no clue who some of the people in the photographs are or what on earth was going on in some of them! I will have plenty of stories about some of my findings after I return from surgery and have a bit more time to gather my thoughts.
Also, a good friend took me to dinner at P.F. Changs the other night - yummy dinner and great conversation. Nice to be out and about, especially knowing that I won't be out and about much for a while after tomorrow. Anyway, I brought along a couple of photos from my scavenger hunt and we laughed and reminisced and had a good time. Wow - I had some big hair in the 90's! After dinner, the waitress brought the check and fortune cookies and my fortune cookie contained the following fortune, "Look forward to great fortune and a new lease on life!". So - is that appropriate or what????
There have been a couple of other luncheons and dinners and great conversations these past few weeks, but I will have to save some of the stories for another time. I will leave with this though, as I was packing my suitcase to go to the hospital, I was feeling a bit down. I just don't want to have another surgery and be in therapy again. And, in the background, I could hear, Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" playing on the radio and it really gave me a boost and cheered me up. Oddly enough, the next song was "Moon Shadow" by Cat Stevens. Needless to say, I have now turned the radio off - I have felt like a moon shadow has been following me for a long time now and don't need any reminders!
Don't worry - "I Will Survive" is the song that is still playing in my head. I'll be in touch real soon!
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