fun in the shade..........

well it is almost two weeks post op and i am feeling my oats. martha, my sister, william(huuby) and theirs two girls lainey and olivia are here keeping track of chores and garden and me. they experienced ikea store in detroit today and are in sweedish meatball heaven. bought some very cool items including 1950's cocktail glasses for us because our glass supply was running thin. martha and i went to ypsilanti yesterday after driving doug to airport(sad-boohoo) and loved depot town. old antique district. i bought a pair of 50's wool pents in 95 degree temps for $8. yes there is a santa clause still left in the thrift world. we struck heaven. then we ate a fabulous lunch at a place which is famous around here.....called the "Dalat" and is the best vietnemese food for a ridiculously low price. needless to say after fasting and hospital food i porked out big time on curry and asparagus-crab soup and fresh spring rolls(rolled with lettuce and rice paper-steamed). yummy!!! now william is in bloomington for a few days and we girls will be at the lake for a few days; dolphin floaties and all. i can not go in and am tortured by the lake calling me in to swim.......but just sticking my feet in is good too.

oh by the way i won at scrabble with 200 points !!!!! genieous......girls are so lovely and all is great !!!!

doogie....the garden is being loved so no worries..............xxoo missin you so much.

mending.......

hi,
i am home and feeling good. i know the surgery went very well and i am on the mend quickly indeed. i am doing light exercises(rolling wrists, squeezing hand and elbow bending) no moving shoulder yet. the staples come out tomorrow !!! all 11. it looks great. small scar for such a large shoulder. my sister Martha(hota) and her husband William with their two daughters(our god-daughters) are coming tomorrow and Doug goes to asheville tuesday. William goes to away for a conference too. so it is a girls getaway. lake and garden taking priority and many outdoor festivals at night when it;s cool and art fair at end of month will entertain us. hard to type so i am done. much love to all. prayers to sally !!!!!and dale !!!!!
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Angela has been home since Saturday late. Finally got the pain thing worked out. She's not much into the narcotics (ssssh-constipation). She’s still hooked up to a catheter in her neck and a pump by which she receives a numbing agent similar to what they used in surgery; one that numbs the shoulder not the mind or spirit. She carries the unit around in a fanny pack. She'll be hooked up for a week. It won't stop her; she's already been out to the garden.

Took her in today for x rays and check up by the surgeon. Incision looks great, swelling is down. The areas where they tried to get an I.V. into her other arm (x4) looks the worst. Girl ain't got no veins. They take her BP on her calf now.

I have to say...the pain thing. Wow. She has my respect; all of it. While she was going through the worst of it, out of the blue she looked at me and said..."Those poor guys in Iraq, loosing their arms and legs, how they suffer...I'm so lucky".

I hear her email box is full. She’ll get back to everyone soon, probably via blog.