Bonfire of the Goddesses

welcome back Jo!  Heal fast and heal well.  ((hugs))

Ya know, Jo...keeping both of us vertical and on the go is a full time job!  Last month we had the DH's annual check up in Pittsburgh (a few days before my flight to my infamous trip to Austin).  We flew down in the morning, as we always do, and flew home in the late afternoon.  The trip by plane to Pittsburgh and back for the day was easier and less stressful than the local trip to the cardiologist in the hospital.  Go figure!

I can't be mad at the doctor.  He really is quite a modest, sincere and dedicated physician.  The only problem is I get cranky when I don't feel well....and after not feeling well with my shoulder and now THIS with my damn foot....  I guess I have to throw some of my crankiness into the fire.....

Hope you're feeling better today!!!!!!!  Could it be too much to ask that we all feel much better quickly??????

All- still can't read well so your posts are pretty blurry. Typing is still and issue. But it's working incision happy.

 So, Jo I had an intention in our novena for you.

Vr---in trying to decipher your post, all I kept thinking was "leg Swlling" That's what the throbbing says.AMD it's mafe worse by plaster casts that don't expand. The newer cast brases have a bit of room for swelling.. Everywhere you go pull a chair up and elevate. Then at hone elevate above heart level with knee supported. Ask doc if okay AND can you do foot pumps toes to nose then ballet point-------very serious yhis answer comes from your doc. b/c of the break --some it's okau with some not-------very important question What are you doung tp prevent blood clots?????? has doc-----told you too do anything??????????           _sorru I should have brought this stuff up earlier. Lonher at compuyrt the better the focus. Corrected most typos.

Put silver nitrate on misbehaing spots on incision. Think I'm doing to type in all caps.

 MPC good luck with new NP

 HI Linda Missed you.

Joann did any of that help, course ot's on;y neem one dau,. It'll take at least two weeks to try every thing out.

Tes into the fire goes long appoiny,emts that on top of tha you geel like you didn't get anything out of them

 Ji sheila, yes you are right abot thinking we are healed. See my etes are healed. Sheila to sheila Eyes ;less blurry-----That's a hoot--"See my etes are healed" Not

Awwh VR, hope it heals fast! 

GOING TO WRITE IN CAPS UNTIL I CAN SEE

VR----TOTAL BUMMER., WHAT KIND OF DOC-----ORTHOPEDIST OT PODIATRIST.. THERE ARE ORTHOPEDIST THAT JUST SPECIALIZE IN FOOT AND ANKLE, BUT THEY'D BE IN BIG CENTERS WITH GROUP USUALLY THAT SPECIALIZES IN A BODY PART.THERE ARE THOSE THAT SNIFF THERE NOSES AT PODIATRISTS. THERE ARE GOOD ONES OUT THERE YOU JUST HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.

TRY DEEP HEAT ON THE GOOD FOOT, PERHAPS SOME FOOT MASSAGE

CAN'T DO IT FOR AWILE ON THE BAD BROKEN FOOT UNTIL WELL HEALED CUZ IT WILL PROMOTE SWELLING. MASSAGE WOULD MAKE BONES VERY UNHAPPY

iT'S SOUNDS LIKE FEET ARE ACTING IN "SYMPATHY' WITH EACH OTHER.

SAS. I WILL CAPITALIZE SO YOU CAN SEE BETTER. I RETURNED FROM TEXAS LATE ON FRIDAY AND COULDN'T SEE THE ORTHOPEDIST UNTIL MONDAY. INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE ER, ON SATURDAY I WENT TO THE FOOT DOCTOR. HE PUT ME IN A BOOT AND TOLD ME TO GO TO THE ORTHO ON MONDAY. ORTHO DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY EXCEPT "WE'LL X RAY AGAIN IN 4 WEEKS..". BOTH OF THEM SAID THEY THOUGHT 8 WEEKS IN THE BOOT. NEITHER WANTED TO CAST IT BECAUSE THEY WANTED IT TO BE AS TIGHT AS POSSIBLE AND A CAST WOULD MAKE IT WOBBLE. THE ORTHO MENTIONED HE HOPES I WON'T NEED SURGERY, BUT IT'S TOO EARLY TO TELL. WANTS TO SEE HOW I HEAL. I WAS CUTTING BACK ON THE IBUPROFEN, BUT I THINK I NEED TO UP IT. I AM GOING TO HEAD UP TO MY BED NOW AND GRAP THE HEATING PAD. I HOPE I CAN REST IT ON MY FOOT. MT FEET HURT SO MUCH I CAN BARELY PUT THE BLANKETS ON MY FEET. THE FUNNY THING IS WHEN IBWAKE UP IN THE MORNING, THE PAIN IS TOLERABLE. BY 2 PM, THE PAIN SWITCH TURNS ON AND I AM IN AGONY FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. RIGHT NOW MT FEET ARE ACHING, THROBBING AND BURNING. THANK GOODNESS IT'S ONLY A BROKEN FOOT AND WILL EVENTALLY GET BETTER.

SAS....THANKS SOOOO MUCH!!!!!! I HAVE WRAPPED MY UNBROKEN BAD FOOT IN THE HEATING PAD AND MY FOOT IS FEELING BETTER! NOW I KNOW WHAT TO DO EACH DAY WHEN I ELEVATE! I WILL KEEP THE HEATING PAD CLOSE BY! THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!

Now I know a few bawdy camp songs. Girl Scout camp for seven years AND a GS leader? Oh yeah, I have some songs...

In my neck of the woods we were going on a BEAR hunt.....

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNTToakLR0

http://www.amazon.com/Were-Going-Classic-Board-Books/dp/0689815816

Cute VR!  I suddenly have the urge to sing kumbaya!  

LOL - posting at the same time! 

I know!!!!  Oy!  

Wellll....the liquor was spilt on the barroom floor and the bar was closed for the night.

And the little brown mouse came out of his house and sat in the pale moonlight.

Welll...he lapped up the liquor on the barroom floor and on  his haunches he sat.

And all night long you could hear him roar, "Bring on the pussy cat!"

Well....the pussy cat came 'bout half past four and ate up the poor little mouse.

And the moral of this story isssssss......

Never take a drink on the house! HIC - meow. 

"Scooping up the field mice, and bopping them on the head"