What have you done today? (Pt 2)

[rock hound]

Went to a poetry open mike with Carla...as usual she rocked it.  The other readers gave me a severe case of MEGO! 

[Queen Victoria]

Pre-op meeting for the PR's surgery next week.

Surgery again?

To remove the metal plate put in for the wrist fusion and to release some finger contractures.  Her hand has been in a fist for some years.  It needs to be loosened to avoid skin infections because of the dampness in a closed fist.

[odeon]

Not a lot, yet, but I'm about to.

You started without me (cross-thread post)

But there are so many threads to choose from.

['andersom']

Pre-op meeting for the PR's surgery next week.

Surgery again?

To remove the metal plate put in for the wrist fusion and to release some finger contractures.  Her hand has been in a fist for some years.  It needs to be loosened to avoid skin infections because of the dampness in a closed fist.

Ah, thought they had done all that in the first surgery (apart from removing the plate, of course)

Not hard to imagine how the hand of your daughter looks. My grandmother had a folded hand like that. Her whole arm had been cramped up from the age of a few weeks on. She had pretty effective surgery somewhere in the twenties of last century to fix that. But her hand and wrist never got back to "normal". They had managed to make it better, but not completely.

Surgery options have improved a lot in the past ninety years. I hope your daughter will get a great outcome.

[Queen Victoria]

Pre-op meeting for the PR's surgery next week.

Surgery again?

To remove the metal plate put in for the wrist fusion and to release some finger contractures.  Her hand has been in a fist for some years.  It needs to be loosened to avoid skin infections because of the dampness in a closed fist.

Ah, thought they had done all that in the first surgery (apart from removing the plate, of course)

Not hard to imagine how the hand of your daughter looks. My grandmother had a folded hand like that. Her whole arm had been cramped up from the age of a few weeks on. She had pretty effective surgery somewhere in the twenties of last century to fix that. But her hand and wrist never got back to "normal". They had managed to make it better, but not completely.

Surgery options have improved a lot in the past ninety years. I hope your daughter will get a great outcome.

Her wrist is straight, but inflexible.  Her hand has fat "baby fingers".  They're smaller (hence the baby description).  Her thumb and middle finger are curled into her palm and the other three fingers just curl over the middle finger and  thumb.  She has limited rotation in her elbow, but fairly good movement in her shoulder.

We took her to therapy when she was a baby and toddler.  We had 2 therapists give up since she fought so hard on the hand exercises.  We (PA and I) couldn't uncurl her fingers because we were afraid of breaking them.  Funny that I was looking at some pictures of  her as a child and sometimes the fingers were fairy extended.   

['andersom']

Wish her luck and patience from me, with her operation.

['andersom']

Rinsed the bit of new fleece I put in salted rainwater yesterday. It looks pretty awesome drying, with very nice colours. It's a "blue" fleece, with some other bits in it too, from black to brown.

Got rid of a gooseberry bush that gave lots of berries, but no tasty ones. Replaced it with a redcurrant, that was begging to get its roots in some good soil.

Clipped some of the front garden hedges, took out a third of the fading lilac bush. Let daughter work a rotten bench to smithereens. All in all, we ended up with two rolling bins filled. The green one I have had filled every week for months now. Thought this time it would only get filled half way at the most, but then I saw that lilac.

[Queen Victoria]

Not me, but someone about my age I follow:

I took the car to the hand car wash this morning, lazy I know but it's only £5 and they do a great job.

I do find it a bit like group sex though, I'm surrounded by a lot of strange men, all shouting excitedly & I keep getting buffeted from side to side by the force of their hoses!

[Parts]

Went out to estate and tag sales and got some stuff
Got some of the stuff I got and some other stuff ready for the flea market

[rock hound]

A 3 mile walk.

[odeon]

So far I've only posted here. It's Saturday.

['andersom']

I showered, got up, spent lots of the night awake. <- in reversed order.

Woke the kid that did not spend the night waking. Gave other one meds and tea.

Put on the kettle again for tea for myself. Then forgot to make tea.

Hung around on I2, Ravelry, and a blog of an artist who intrigued me. Don't know if I like or dislike what she is doing. Probably both.

Oh, did take a painkiller this morning. It is not doing a lot.

[odeon]

I probably need to take a painkiller, too.

['andersom']

Great way to have breakfast. 

[odeon]

The painkiller *is* the breakfast.