As a solo act, I have wondered a bit the last year how I would handle a debilitating illness or injury. Now I am finding that out. Tripped while running on Memorial Day and dislocated my ring finger and badly bruised all the other fingers and palm; the thumb got off scot-free. I was lucky to be at a friend’s house for the long weekend, so I am extending my stay here until I am able to hitch up the trailer and do the basics to be on my own. Not sure, maybe a week or so, I will just have to see how things heal and what the hand/finger specialist says on Thursday.
Since typing is a one-handed activity right now, this is it for the weekly update. Back to binge-watching the new season of House of Cards…
Thanks for the recommendation, Lorinda. I have the chocolate, I just need the wine now I’m off the painkillers.
Thanks, Bakha. Good to hear from you! And yeah, I still miss you guys.
Wishing you speedy recovery! Keep us posted.
Hope it will not stop you for long. Prayers.
Watch The Keepers too – great documentary. As long as you have one hand free for wine and chocolate, you should be good 🙂
This a thought that is often on my mind – due to both age and living alone – but I do not have to hitch my house to my car so that is a plus! I have tried dictating emails etc – sometimes it works – sometimes I end up shouting at my ipad or phone out of frustration. Probably it is harder to type using one hand for you than it was for me to type when I broke my elbow – I could cheat and use the fingers of my right hand (broke my right elbow) until my arm ached too much. The Hardest thing for me was trying to drive – as much balance was so screwed up for weeks after the break. I would grip the steering wheel with a death grip of my left hand and lean to the right to keep the car going in a straight line. And I drove only in the far right lane on the highway so that if I lost control I would hit the side of the road and not traffic in other lanes. Mak thought I had lost my mind – and it was impossible to tell him because he was having his own issues with trying to breath and deal with his death sentence.
I am looking more seriously now into continuing care communities and have a deadline of 3 years to get my house cleaned out and myself moved – hopefully to a CCC – or a condo. Taking care of this old house (not so old but it seems that way) is like wearing a 100lb pack on my back. Today the roofers came to start reroofing the house – had to stop because of rain – back tomorrow to work on it. That is the major project for now but the other major project for 2017 is getting the attic cleaned out. Hopefully in the fall – will not happen this summer – everyone is coming in July and I have a couple of track meets I would like to run – one in Baton Rouge – in July just before the kids come – the other in Toronto right after the daughter-in-law and older grandchild return to Tokyo. I am having second thoughts about Baton Rouge – too much heat and the meet is too spread out with a couple of days when I do not have events. Toronto is shorter, closer, and not so hot and humid.
I hope my ramblings have distracted you briefly from your hand problems – major bummer – glad you have a friend close by where you can park your RV and heal up.
This too will pass – yeh right – when life hands you lemons etc – cliches never help just annoy,
Take care
Mary