Heard from the surgeon's office regarding the MRI results - and you know you are in trouble when the gal says, "I can list what's RIGHT with you shoulder quicker than what is WRONG!" She proceeded to tell me that it looks like two separate surgeries will be required. The first to correct a 'laundry list' of problems with the rotator cuff and ligaments, plus remove a piece of bone that is 'floating' around. The second will be to actually replace the shoulder 'joint' - ball & socket. Not sure about the time span between the surgeries, but she set me up for Dec. 11th - unless they can reschedule someone and can get me in sooner. Thankfully it will be 'outpatient', but will be a very long day for the first surgery will be a 3 1/2 surgery. I am so ready for my arm to work 'right' again! This will be surgery # 6 and #7 for me since I turned the big 50! Please tell me the 60's will be better!
On other subjects - our house, for one - we are making real progress! Randy put in 3 evenings with us and, WOW, what a difference! Seems we always work best with a 'deadline' and the company called with our kitchen counter tops, scheduling installation this Wednesday, Nov. 28th. So the 'push' was on to get the kitchen drywall finished. Today (Saturday) is painting day so we can start laying the wood floor and be ready to go for the counter tops! I can hardly wait.
Took time out for Thanksgiving. It was GREAT to have our entire family together. Roger's folks provided the gathering place- and we (the kids and grandkids) provided the grub. Russ and Randy took over the chore of cooking the turkeys - deep frying them! They turned out delicious - so, of course, they are now permanently assigned that task. I'm the official provider of noodles and Judy (Roger's sister) made a 'boat-load' of 'cush' (dressing). The cold weather kept the little ones inside and underfoot most of the time, but a good time was had by all.
No Thanksgiving (for me, anyway) is complete without a 'crisis' of some type. Thought I had my routine with my hot rolls down pat. I 'cheat', using Rhodes frozen dough; put them in the pans before I went to bed Wednesday evening, then up at 5:00 a.m. to bake them. It worked good the previous Saturday for the Peninger reunion, so that was the plan for the Hughes get-together. ONLY THIS TIME I put a turkey breast in the lower oven and set it to come on at 5:00 a.m. (The tureky breast was a 'safety net' in case the boys deep-fried turkey didn't work out.) When I got up at 5:00, I found that when the lower oven came on to pre-heat, the added warmth made my rising dough accelerate! My 'hot rolls' were nothing but a huge 'blob' that was out of control!
What to do?!? I tried 'pinching' off the edges that were hanging down through the oven racks, but realized that wasn't working. SO, I decided to just dump the entire 'mess' into a bowl and punch it down - and start over. I figured I had 7 hours till lunch, so just maybe I could salvage the mess. THANKFULLY it worked beautifully - and the rolls came out even better than the week before! At the same time I had pulled out two more bags of frozen dough and put them out as a back up. So I ended up having to run back home after lunch and bake them, so I wouldn't 'lose' them! Ended up sending them with Russ and DeAnna to DeAnna's family get-together that night.
Another 'memory' - like the year I forgot to thaw out the turkey! . . . but that's another story - for another day!
Although I swore I wasn't going to do it again, Shelly 'enticed' me to set the alarm clock and we hit the streets at 4:30 a.m. to 'catch' the bargains on Black Friday! That is challenging when you are feeling good! So I decided I would be the designated one to 'stand in line' and let Shelly do the running after items. We conquered WalMart with no problem - that store did it right! Target was another story, but we came away with some really good buys. But by the time we got to the mall, I was running out of steam. Shelly dropped me by home and then went to pick up her boys and went out again! Oh, to be young again! I spent the rest of Friday 'sleeping it off' in my recliner.
However, it was a 'toss up' who was the most 'insane' yesterday! Us girls and our early morning shopping - or Roger and Randy as they hit the golf course in 30 degree weather!
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