a Big bump in the road

Wow, what a bump we hit.

As I am writing this(thursday afternoon) I am using crutches to get around and apparently will be for a little while.

after reporting all is well, things changed. Tuesday afternoon, my left knee ( surgery was last Jan 8th) stated to hurt, which is not totally unusual. In this case it continued and it was impossible to sleep. Very much like before the surgery. In the morning the pain was excruciating, and I could neither bend it or put weight on it. Out came the crutches.We were able to get an appointment with the Dr, and had to go St Augustine to do it, but OK. all kinds of thoughts raced through the mind, including something happening to the partial replacement, to infection from the the previous weeks cytoscopy. After a difficult ride to the Dr, we had x-rays which were encouraging, because they showed no problem with the replacement apparatus. Hooray, no return trip to the hospital? The Dr said if it was infection it would be red. He did not know what the problem was so he put in a shot of cortisone and a prescription for a strong pain killer, and we go back to see him on Monday, the day we were going to go to Disney on my birthday.

After one day of cortisone and pain killer, the situation appears to be getting better. I was able to sleep last night and there is no pain unless the knee is moved or wt put on it. The swelling appears to be the same. We shall have to wait and see what happens. It is of course, great concern to me that he does not know what it is.

now back to the routine stuff. We had planned to go to Seaworld abd Busch Gardens this past Monday and Tuesday. While checking their schedules we learned the Christmas programs at Seaworld do not start until this Sat the 19th. So we rescheduled to Disney the 21st and Seaworld and Busch Gardens after that. Now we know Monday at Disney will probably not happen, nor will the others.

This was considered to be good because now we had a cool spell coming and about a week of no scheduled events. So we loaded up the trailer with $200 worth of lumber, and screws, determined to start construction of the shed and repair the holes in the floor, during the cool weather. Well we started building one wall of the shed Tuesday, the last Day I could walk without crutches. And here we are. We were able to complete the first one today, but no more until??? and the plywood on the floor. good luck with that. So now we may not get to any of these places until later in the sason.

It is not all bad here, the weather is much better than yours in the Buffalo area. We still get an ocasional boat ride. We have not had a freeze yet, though that may change in a few days.

On Sunday past, we went to Normas to help move some furniture to her house and some to Janices house. We then went to Ruby Tuesday to meet Greg Folts, who had just arrived to do some work in Ormond Beach. Greg took a group photo and sent it to facebook. So if you know how, look us up in facebook.

There was some other stuff we were going to tell you about, but you have enough to read already.

Norma has decided to host Christmas at her house, so that should be a nice affair. Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New Year

So as we leave you at this time, where we once had a plan, we now have no clue as what we will be doing in the next few weeks/months.