Good morning Dave,
Well, it’s been a tough week. A week ago this past Wed., Feb. 25th, I fell twice outside my property in the street – we had a bad storm that day and little did I know that the pavement had heaved and dammed up the water in front of my mailbox. Ice skating rink and down I went – before getting up I assessed things even though in the road, no one was coming, and rolled closer to the middle of the street – got up and wham, down I went again – was still on ice.
Felt OK until Sat. a week ago and then went to insta care with wrist and thumb issues. Landed at a hand specialist’s yesterday and while there, they determined I’d better have ankle and pelvis xrayed as well as badly as I was walking – everything came out OK – thank goodness they found that I have a very dense bone structure that held up – just a lot of bone bruising that will take to heal and not hurt.
No more got back to work for the rest of my day (a whole two hours of work) and Steve (Steve Ward from City High that I’ve been dating since Oct.) texted that he was at the ER at Mercy in Iowa City with kidney stones passing. Poor guy – 3rd or 4th time for him. He came over after he got out and checked in with things at home and stayed here. They are in his bladder now but have to pass from there yet. One is too large to leave the kidney – not sure what they’ll do about that – I suppose wait until it blocks and then do surgery – sheesh – and ladies who have had them have told me they would rather have a baby again without pain killers.
Things are going well for us – spending more and more time with each other – Chris, my oldest, really likes him. Folks like him – he’s so sweet – said he was a hell raiser in his younger years and I believe him, but he’s so kind and caring and considerate now and SOOOO much respect for women, it’s amazing.
It’s been hard to let him do things for me – I’ve found myself territorial about my home, my things – not wanting to give up independence after all the years I’ve been managing on my own – not just the time Tom had cancer – it’s been hard, but I’m learning I can let go some and still be independent – he’s the kind of guy that likes to take care of the woman in his life and be “the man”. It’s been over 11 years since I’ve had that so hard to adapt, but learning to find a good middle ground – we are a work in progress. 🙂
So, healing ankle, pelvis, hand, wrist, thumb and shoulder and arm all on my right side. At our age, pavement can be very unforgiving and just lucky my bone structure is very healthy. I now already have a mail box with a rear opening that I can get to from the easement without going out into the street for it. 🙂 Much safer!!!
It was nearly 40 when I got up this morning. HOpefully the warmer weather will be kinder on my joints and all the places I’ve injured in the past, which is a lot!!! That doesn’t help either to have so many past injuries that ache in the cold. I might be looking into a hot tub before next winter, my joints have ached to badly this year with all the below zero temps and windchills we’ve had this year.
Hope this finds you well and enjoying less snow!
Ruth
PS – feel free to share my news that I have seemingly found someone wonderful – things are going well, and you can use Steve’s name – he’s OK’d it. He knows nearly half of our graduating class from SE Jr. High days. We saw his home place last weekend when I was with him – literally 6 blocks from my place as the crow flies on the other side of the highway. 🙂 Small world – his daughter worked with a teacher who now is in our district and in the building that I work in, and he worked on the foundation of First Presb. church out on Rochester in Iowa City where dad served briefly before retiring from the ministry.