Gen, thank you for posting this for me.
I'm off the Percocet, so I can actually "remember" how to get to the newsgr oup again. Things have been really strange....guess we found a medicine I can't take for pain (cold sweats, dizziness, shaking...NOT fun).
I'm doing ok mobility-wise - now that I'm wearing a shoe on the "good foot" . Provides more balance and I'm not so wobbly. Ken got me his walking sti ck and I've been using that for leverage when getting up off the sofa or ou t of the chair.
This was NOT a planned surgery. I went in for the doc to see what the issu e was and walked out with an appointment for the surgery...hmmm....he reall y wanted to do a joint replacement,, but said he doesn't like doing them on people under 50 (so that means I have a few more years). Worst part for m e is that I'm used to constantly doing stuff and now I'm restricted to what I can do from a sitting position with one foot elevated....turns out, it's not really that much. I *am* working on some knitting, so at least I'm be ing productive. Before the surgery, I drafted out the first potential quil t layout for my state and county fair ribbons...very simple design, but I t hink it will work....thought about doing them by color, and I may play with that layout as well, but right now I'm looking at having them arranged by year they were earned - 3 years of NY state fair and 3 years of Augusta Cou nty fair....for a total of 65 ribbons...lol...ah well. Might even aim for next year's VA state fair because it's coming up soon so I know I can't do this year's fair.
Anyway, with all this chaos, I forgot to mention that Thomas is doing onlin e school this year. He's taking 5 classes right now (one is an elective an d will be over soon, then he'll switch to another elective) and has 3 As an d 2Bs...teachers have been told about my surgery and that there will be a d elay in him turning in work since I'm unable to help him right now (more he lp with research and prompting for more details than anything else). He al so managed to skip a year of math and is taking 8th grade math in 7th grade !!
He says he's really enjoying it - more than going to public school and bein g bullied by students and belittled by teachers...guess we made the right c hoice....but he's also said that he doesn't want to go back to public scho ol, so this will be going on for a few more years. Hope is that, once he g ets to be old enough, he'll be able to have a part time job, but we are cur rently looking at volunteering at the local library. He is also in the adu lt karate class now and is really enjoying himself, even though most of the students are MUCH bigger than he is.
So that's where we are...now that I'm not in a percocet fog, I need to try and find things to stay busy for the next 6 days (follow up on the 30th)
Larisa