Where have you been?

    On Tuesday November 24th I had surgery on my left rotor cuff at St. Lawrence Outpatient by Dr. Noud. We arrived at 6am and I remembered I had not done my blood tests but they did them there so I had my surgery at its scheduled time and was home by 11:45. I had some pain but not as bad as the doctor said it could be and we had our Thanksgiving dinner as Phillip was here for the weekend. I had to sleep in the recliner for 3+ weeks before it was comfortable to make through the night in bed. I also had to be in the sling for 6 weeks but after 4 weeks I spent a good deal of the day out of it but wore it at night to protect my arm. My pain was never higher than a 5 and I didn't need the pain meds except at night and only used the shoulder cooler for 3 days. Gramma was in the Dimondale rehab. during this time after having knee surgery also and we tried to visit her twice a week once we found out. We had her and Mark over for Christmas as Jon and family were here and she had been over to Petra's earlier as she would still be at Dimondale for another week. My recovery has been very successful as I have been going to Arch Physical Therapy since January 5th and have most of my motion and range restored. I resumed subbing the first week of January doing half days and then back to my regular workdays. My wife was very attentive and lovingly helping me through this time. We went to North Canton, Ohio to visit Phillip at his new house for the weekend of February 12-15. Simon went with us and though it was cold the roads and travel were good. We had a good dinner at 91 Wood Fired Oven and Jane cooked two homemade meals and we had some Handels ice cream. We went to the Harry London/Fanny May Chocolate Factory and the Mall in Canton on Saturday. Gramma left for Florida Wednesday just before the 10+" snow caused 2 snow days here. We had her Mark and Andy over Saturday for a farewell dinner. Lukas is working at Inovalon by Frandor since December and enjoying it and going to the MAC with his co-worker friend Joe. The political scene is Bizaroo world trumped on surrealism spiced with fascism!