So today and yesterday I got to spend some time at the Tulip Tree. It's great fun to be back there and see how fabulously busy they are now. Today Adda did her usual awesome job of supervising one and all & still made one of her fantastic fruit baskets and a killer rose planter. I brought in a pizza lunch for us all, it was fun to have lunch buddies again, I've missed that social moment. I got to make 3 fun corsages for Jenni & Paul's twins and one of their friends. Unfortunately right about then things got extra crazy at the shop & I did not get pics :( so just imagine 3 totally awesome wrist corsages with plenty of flair & bling.
I wound up manning the shop by myself for a couple hours this evening. Though rusty I do remember how & it was even kinda fun, my back at the end of this day is rather adamantly reminding me why I had to give up on an everyday floral job. Doesn't help that I can't soothe the grumpy muscles with a soak in my hot tub. Perhaps my next BIG project will be draining the stale water (though mostly unused & kept clean it hasn't been changed since before Scotty lost his hand).
Last week I met with a new doctor. She specializes in treating pain and the underlying causes of pain. It was interesting to meet with her and talk about what options I have for treating my "just arthritis" and "residual nerve damage". I love my neurosurgeon but there are a few places where his bedside manners are lacking. Anyhow, I'm scheduled to go in next week for some sort of in office procedure that will hopefully numb the nerves causing me the most discomfort. She thinks this may help to get me back where I can work with my hands more and sit for longer amounts of time. Hopefully that gets me back to where I can strengthen up my lower back muscles and do more without hurting. I both dread and look forward to this, my biggest worry is that it won't work....we've already talked about other options, but it's not easy to stay optimistic. Here's hoping.
Here's a puzzler for ya, what do you do when you sprain your only ankle and your foot swells up? You can't bear weight on that foot, so you can't use your prosthetic leg to ambulate. Yep you guessed it the answer is: NOTHING. Twice now since I got home this has happened. Poor Scotty doesn't even know exactly what he's doing to pull the muscles. So we treat the symptoms as much as he can stand the coddling and then he's stuck at home. Either he has to commute in his power chair (it has a 16 mile range, according to google maps that means he can go a LOT of places) to get to work, stores, etc. or he's stuck at home. Hopefully soon we get a chair lift installed on Jayne (my truck) and then he can take his power chair wherever he wants. I'm looking forward to that cuz it means we can mount the same lift on Behemoth and GO CAMPING!!!!. It's still a bit mystifying to me that despite spending most of the last year living in Behemoth I still crave camping. My time in the desert was powerfully energizing for my spirit. In a later post I'll share my story from the "great rain storm". I really wish I'd kept up this blog while down there, alas I was too caught up enjoying the moments. It's hard to regret that.
So now I'm off to watch some TV, I really did miss my reality tv fix while I was in the desert...well I didn't miss it at the time (there were jack rabbits, and cactus and happy places to watch and amazing energy to absorb), but I sure am enjoying it now that I'm back. Pretty much guaranteed my next 24-48 hours will be spent in the fetal or otherwise recumbent position. That's okay, the time away from home was worth it, and hopefully this new doc can improve my quality of life. If not, I will still find as many shiny things as I can, ain't worth being grumpy & I try to focus there.
Live Long & Prosper!
~m
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