SharivilleLife stories from Shari

Hello after over 3 mos. Needless to say the surgery went very well. It was inconvenient to have to go to Sacto. for the procedure, but as it turned out it was probably the best thing I could have done. The surgeon Dr. Bluemfeld was a genius.  The knee is perfect.  I really don’t remember much pain, heavy drugs, you know.  Jerry was comfy in the RV with Teddy. I was there 4 days and then home to recover.

Poor Jerry, he quickly became chief cook and bottle washer and did a fab job with it for about 6 weeks.  Then I was up and around doing fairly well.  My husband is one of a kind. I was off the heavy duty drugs by then and making pretty good sense. I seemed to be OK but my family found me to me a bit spacey, so is that something new?

So all in all not a lot to say about this procedure, just want to document some of it for posterity. It’s the best thing I have done, and like I said no more knees.  I spent 67 yrs suffering various degrees of distress, I was never able to do all the things other kids did, no PE in school, never could run on really exercise in any way. Had some people make fun of me for not being able to keep up. Karma is a bitch.  Oh my, did I really say that. I did climb Mt Lassen in my younger days, up was usually OK, down was always awful, my boyfriend had to practically carry me back down.  But I did it.  Now I can walk anywhere and pretty much keep up, too bad it’s so late in my life.

So I have spent the last 6 weeks catching up.  Wandering around my beautiful property and keeping Jerry company during all the various  chores out there. Right now its wood stacking time to get ready for the winter.  It’s still hot here in Chico, we are having an “ Indian Summer,” and it’s wonderful. Problem is we still have to water. Well more soon, meanwhile it’s so nice to not have any pain.