a new day dawning

Well, I went back to the doctor on Thusday evening and they casted my wrist.  WOW, does that feel much better!  It can not move now. He said to take the sling off after 3-4 more days and try to start moving my elbow around a bit so it does not get too stiff.  I did move my arms way too much on Friday and they are really sore but at least now I know that I am not hurting anything when I move them.  Can't type quite as well as I could before the cast though.  Today I am going to try to sew!  :-)



jireh cooking breakfast

I had to laugh this morning when Jireh ask to cook breakfast.  She wanted to make french toast all by herself.  As she began to get out all the ingredients I could not help but giggle as my mind went back to many years  ago when we were in Bible college and living in Arlington, TX.  Jeremy (then 14) came in and ask to have a sandwich.  I told him to make himself one.  He looked at me with a puzzled look and then replied, "I don't know how".  WOW, had I really done EVERYTHING for them!  Fast forward to about the year 2000 when Jonathan was 3.  He was not even tall enough to reach the counter when we would put him on a stool and let him make his own food.  All my little kids love to cook and I am so glad.  We are not going down that "do everything for me" road again!

Jireh at age 8 can cook up quite the french toast!

a long day

We are finally at the end of a very long day.  I drove to town this morning (with a broken arm/elbow).  Not a very smart thing to do!  The hair cut and style were great!  Seeing as how my husband has been trying to do that for me now for a week.  Well... let's just say it felt good to really have a good head washing.  LOL  Then on to town for my very first pedicure.  WOW!  Now that was awesome.  Worth every penny.  It took a lot longer than I thought to do all that and run in to the store for some bug spray.  Awe..yes, for the bird mites that migrated up from a birds nest outside my son's bedroom window.  Very interesting!  Of course when you are trying to drive with four fingers on your gimped up left hand, it takes a lot longer to do.  Home safely but really sore.  Will probably not try to drive again anytime soon.

a new day

Well it is a new day.  No pain meds yesterday at all.  I think I actually feel so much better without them.  No sick stomach.  I think I am on the uphill swing with this thing.  Will be venturing out and driving for the first time since breaking my arm to get my hair cut today.  It is just six miles away so it should work out fine.  Back to the orthopedic specialist tomorrow night to see how things are mending.  Hopefully they are mending well and nothing else will need to be done.  I pealed the scabs off all the scrapes and they look good too.  Ha, yes, I know you are not suppose to peal the scabs off but you just try having all that dead skin on your face.  YUCK, it was gross. 

what a day

Awe...such a day that I really don't even care to write about it.  The house is a mess as I can not use my arms to clean it.  The girls helped with the laundry as much as they could but they really haven't been trained to do that yet.  We had  food  left over in the ice box for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  I guess all in all, we were fed and clothed today and that is all that mattered.  My husband did clean the carpets but they are so wet that he won't be able to put things away tonight so that will also be a mess tomorrow.  Exciting times.  Think I will take something and go to bed so I can sleep and hopefully wake up feeling better.

the garden

We started the garden the end of April.  It is now the middle of June and most of it seems to be doing very well.  Not sure what happened to the peas.  They started out really well but don't look so well anymore.  Maybe it is too much rain.  Who knows, never grew peas before.

Then there is the broccoli that I was told would attract bugs.  So we planted it in one of the flower gardens.  It too seems to be doing well, although I have no idea when or how those broccoli stalks come out.  It has been about 50 days and all I have are big leaves.  Guess we will see about that!

Then there is the cantaloupe and watermelon and the tomatoes and lettuce.  All of which seem to be growing by leaps and bounds.  Can't wait to make all my own salsa and tomato sauce for the winter.  It is great to go out to the garden and pick your lettuce as you need it.  Awesome!

Awe, then comes the fruit of our labors.  Mmmmm good!

What do you make of this radish?  Interesting!

finally learning how to blog

Well, after a day of not doing much else but trying to figure out this blog, I think I am a little farther along than I was.  Maybe I will get better at it and be more consistant.  Who knows, it has just never been on my priority list. 

a day with the doctors

Well, all I can say is yesterday was a very long day. First of all the specialist couldn’t believe how many x-rays they did yesterday. He also found that my elbow is cracked also a little bit. No cast! Yeah, just a splint and a sling for now. Go back in a week to see if it is healing right with just those things. He also found that I have excessive cervical degenerative disease. That is in my neck. He says he almost never sees this in someone this young. From everything I see, it is caused no only by getting older but by stress to the neck (such as sewing). Anyway, I was waiting last night to see if they were going to put me in traction. Not fun. The spine specialist finally sent me home at 10:30 last night. I have called my chiropractor and she is going to look at the x-rays to see what she thinks. He showed me my x-rays and they were incredible as my spine curves the opposite way that it should. This will account for all the neck and shoulder pain that I usually live with. So that is it , in a nutshell. Still very sore. Can’t put pressure on either hand, even to open the car door. Hoping today is better. They did tell me yesterday that there was a lot of soft tissue damage but that the parts that are not broken, I need to try to move as much as possible so they will hear. Exciting times!

 

Doesn't look too bad today!

the bike wreck

The day started out early for me, 4:30 AM. A full day planned as usual. Got some sewing done and then to wake the kids for a surprise breakfast at the local small town cafe, J’s Place. Sausage, eggs, hash browns and toast…mmmmmmm….. After hanging around for a while so that our food would settle a bit we took off for our three mine bike ride out in the country. Just moments later I found myself on the ground, face first on the asphalt. I had swerved to miss a child that was too close to me and hit some loose gravel. We were riding quite fast, as it was a really cool morning. My, oh my the instant pain. I knew I had probably broken my wrist so was in a hurry to get home and sit down. I got on my bike and Jonathan pushed me to get the bike going, by now I couldn’t even hold the handle with my right arm. I felt my face burning. I could tell by the kids faces, it must not be good. One look in the mirror and oh my, skin gone. It amazes me how bad the air can feel on flesh that has been burned off. Just the very air blowing on my face is a feeling that I really don’t care if I feel again. On to the doctor’s office to have an x-ray. Fractured wrist is the verdict. Visit to the specialist in the morning. “IN THE MORNING”!!!! How can they make me wait until the morning! You can tell it is not their pain. Oh well, the day is gone and the plans did not go as planned but all is well with this help meet.

they are here

Corey and Jessica finally arrived on Tuesday.  We had Brooklyn and Claire here for a couple of days too.  It was wall to wall sleeping in this house.  Grandma took them for a swim on Thursday before the girls went home.