It's been over four months since she had her knee replaced. It's been a roller coaster ride. A coupla good weeks, then pain. Repeat, rinse. She has fallen four times. Never on her knee. Three times I had to call the FD to get her up. Our neighbor once. I tried once, but paid for the effort with several days of pain myself.
I have given her the Indian name of Falls a Lot.
She has been doing pretty well the last ten days. She is still using the walker, but she will venture to walk without it sometimes - as her doctor has wanted her to do for two months.
Her sass level is climbing. So many times I have wanted to give her a solid swat, but hold back for fear of toppling her.
I Miss Department Stores
She Thought She Was Going to Get Some
I hope that Bacall's recovery speeds up a pace and a lot less suffering will be endured. I am of to the UK now so I will wish you both a Merry Christmas.
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Good luck to Bacall. My wife recovered nicely but it too awhile.
ReplyDeleteI love the video of the guy going into the corner cabinet - too bad she’s not wearing a skirt.
Great to hear Bacall is coming along. It's a long slog with knees, but the result will be she can walk again without pain.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It is complicated with her. She had polio when she was 17 months. She had to stop wearing heels in her 40's. Now she has almost no feeling in her left foot as polio damaged the nerves.
DeleteFirst and foremost, best wishes to Bacall as she progresses with her recovery. As for the girl walking through the department store ... oh my! Reminds me of a small department store that was in our town (regrettably it has now closed). The women's department was on the second floor (first floor to our UK friends), reachable by an escalator. The best show in town was riding up the escalator a few steps below a delightful woman in tight slacks or a short skirt.
ReplyDeleteShe appreciates your good wishes. Yesterday was her last appointment with the surgeon. He continues to say she has an excellent range of motion. She had a bit of pain, but we managed both grocery and Costco shopping in the electric scooters.
DeleteMy first job when I got out of the Navy was in a department store. Five levels of escalators. This was before short skirts or women wearing slacks, but still.
Likewise, sending good wishes to both Bacall and you for coping with your ongoing health challenges. But I feel it should be noted with respect to dealing with her sassiness issue, that there are quite a few topping/bottoming positions which involve zero risk of toppling. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteAnd hey. That last GIF with the excited, randy minded Suzie sitting atop the lazy Susan is absolutely a howl! Thanks for sharing it.
She appreciates your good wishes. A good day so far. Walking around wo the walker. Just now she comes through the den with clothes piled high on the walker to return to her closet.
DeleteI think we both miss me giving her a good pop after a sassy remark.
The girl on the counter. A staged shot, but excellent. She is so happy and at the end is sucking air through her teeth thinking I will get you for this.
Good news of Bacall, our best wishes for her continued recovery. John points out the quaint habit we Brits and Europeans have of using 'ground' and 'first' floor. There seems to be a compromise now practised of referring to the 'ground' floor as zero '0'. At least that stays with a numeric system even if it does not match the entirely logical American convention. Equally, on the London underground (subway to our cousins) line directions are given as Northbound, Westbound etc. Imagine our many overseas visitors trying to make sense of that while underground.
ReplyDeleteMiss Department-store needs a government health warning. The kitchen counter video is a good joke but could perhaps been better staged.
Elevators in the colonies have either G or 1 and mean the same.
DeleteI have a built-in sense of direction. Works in the day or night. It seldom fails me, but when it does, it is screwed up for the rest of the day. Pretty sure it would fail in the tubes.
Going into the weeds, many of the major roads in the town we live in are named for the town they go to. So if you have a geographic map of the state in your mind, you know the direction that the Selma Road must take.