Update

72 hours after knee surgery, the leg-wrap came off.


Judy is walking without support and is on the bicycle doing full revolutions (with her leg). 96 hours after surgery, still some swelling, but a remarkable recovery underway.

Yard bird

A Hooded Warbler popping about the pots and gardens at Gulf Waters.




He’s been here for three days. He even came in the house and Judy had to put him back outside. Here he is on the flowers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ra189Uac8

And then.

And then… the Easter Bunny stopped at our house. We found this on our porch this morning!
Happy Easter.

Update

Judy being good; keeping the leg elevated.

More signs of spring

It’s that time of year for Great-tailed grackles.

Then and now

Last week Judy did a little more landscaping on our patio. Some new pygmy date palms, pots, and flowers.






I thought it might be interesting to go back to some pictures from when we first got our lot five years ago, for comparison.

April 2005.



August 2005.

Update

 

The knee surgery is done.  All went as planned.  The doctor found some meniscus wear on the inside of the knee he could smooth out, and a little tearing on the outside he could trim.  Her knee should feel better when it stops feeling worse.

 

They gave her some of that anesthetic that makes you talk a lot when you wake up.  I don’t think it’s worn off yet.  They put some kind of pain blocker in the knee, so it didn’t hurt at all for a while.  That has clearly worn off now though.  We’ve moved on to drugs.  Hydrocodone.  The bottle said to take one or two pills for pain.  We took two.  Apparently one would have been enough.  Now we’re pain-free and totally loaded.

 

It’ll be a little crazy for a few days; getting things back in balance.  The knee recovery should be fairly quick though.  Then we’ll move on to the shoulder.  Judy has had both the knee and the shoulder done before, so we know the shoulder is a bigger deal.  That recovery is long and painful, but not having it done is long and painful too, so may as well get on with it.

 

We have help from neighbors.  Jeff and Carol watched Annie for us.  We came home to a nice linguine and sausage dinner provided by next door neighbors Ron and Linda.  Lots of offers of help.

 

I promised to be nice to Judy for 24 hours after the knee surgery.  Only 18 hours to go.