Back to "Go"

Thursday, Jan. 10th, dawned bright and beautiful. One month since my shoulder surgery and I was feeling pretty good! Time to start physical therapy and get my right arm working half way decent again, I hoped.

Not to be. A noon appointment with my doctor and he wanted x-rays to make sure all was well, before cutting me loose to have some therapy and begin our 2008 season, with the second surgery planned for October. He came in to share that the x-rays showed that my shoulder was dislocated, and apparently had been since shortly after my surgery. He had been concerned that I might have some 'movement' due to the extensive damage to the socket, but was hopeful it was something we could live with until fall. But after getting a look at the x-rays, he was adamant that the second surgery can not be delayed.

So, once again, I'm scheduled for surgery on Jan. 22nd, this time to replace the shoulder joint and tighten all the tendons and ligaments, and repair the remaining damaged ones. Definitely not an 'out-patient' experience. I left the office feeling like my bright red balloon had just been popped!

Roger keeps assuring me 'it's for the best!' and I can even hear my Mom in heaven telling me the same thing: "all things happen for the good for those that love the Lord!' And I know . . . they are both right. But somehow I just feel like a 'game piece' in a Monopoly game . . . and I just got sent back to "Go"!

We continue to work on finishing up on detail work on the house, and Roger goes back and forth between working on the house and the new fifth wheel. It's become a bit of a 'private joke' between Roger and I. There's not a day that goes by that one of us doesn't look at the other and say, "I just love my house!" Guess it really is true that 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' - for after being without a home that was really 'ours' since 1989, we are enjoying every aspect of home ownership again.

We have even changed our habit of going out to breakfast each morning. It's just more fun, now, to sit and read the morning paper at our own table - with our own coffee and breakfast. How life changes from year to year!

We've laughed as we 'equip' our house with the necessities. We gave away so much stuff when moving things to storage, because it didn't make sense (at the time) to store it, for what we thought would be, long term. It's almost like being newly weds again - which is kinda fun!