Sandy and Cory

I promised you the photo of my knee innards....and now I’m coming through with my promise. My physician assistant, Christa, took this photo for me. Thank you, Christa, you did a fine job. This is a photo of my 2nd total knee replacement: the right knee this time. The bone you are looking at is my femur. The solid yellow area is cartilage (you want to have that there) ....the rough looking area is where I was walking bone on bone....OOWW! I told you it hurt! Folks called me Hobbling Hilda. I’m so glad I had this done and it’s behind me now. And I’m glad I only have two knees! Enough is enough. Thank you for supporting me through this last surgery. It truly made a good difference. My nurses, Cory and Lulu, have had ... read more

We are in countdown mode right now. 35 hours before my upcoming surgery for a total right knee replacement......HOPEFULLY. I say “hopefully” because the rise in Covid cases has caused some hospitals here to cancel elective surgeries (I’m elective). So far, I’m still a go.....I have been told to arrive at the Celebration hospital at 5:00 AM for surgery at 11:00 AM this Monday, January 11th. I’m ready! I better go to bed at 5:00 PM on Sunday so I’m not catatonic on Monday. I’m not an early morning person. We are fully aware and prepared for what’s to come. If it goes as well as last time, it will be a snap. I watched the operative procedure on You-Tube. Yowee, thank God, I’m unconscious. I don’t deal well with pain! I think I have prepared ... read more

Ho-Ho-Ho. Where’s the snow? Our family in the North can respond to that....they have it! Our daughter, Kim got stuck in it with 40” of snow in Binghamton, NY. This is our first Christmas in Florida and away from our family. Sniffle, Sniff! We are going to miss them so many times over than missing any snow. Because of my on-going physical therapy, it was not in the cards for us to return “home”. Christmas Day will be so different for us. No family, no snow, no cooking (goody). The highlight of this celebratory day will be dining out at the Golden Corral (aka: the Trough) It’s the only restaurant open and I’m taking full advantage of not cooking. A Christmas present I will enjoy. 🎼🎼 We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a ... read more

Took longer than I thought to complete this medical blob.....haha....”blob”....of course, I meant blog. Senior moment or poor typing. Let’s go with the latter. Beside being in my recovery and recuperation mode, we have had other activity going on. Onward and upward we go. Each morning, I go outside to sit and visit with our friends. It’s so great having them around....as we have said before and Art reminds us “we are all family”. Our family really became complete when Sam & Sandy returned to their site next to us. Hooray! So good to see them and resume our lives where we left off several months ago. The day after I returned from the hospital, a sales rep showed up with a device called Kneehab. It was an electrical stimulator to wake up my thigh muscles.......wow!....they ... read more

Tropical Palms is showing an exciting change everyday. As the leaves change color and tumble to the ground up North, the sun shines brighter down here in the South each time another friend arrives on scene for their winter respite. The flight of the snowbirds has begun. The count is going up daily. More and more of our friends will land safely here in their sanctuaries as the days grow shorter. Hip-Hip-Hooray! It is wonderful to see each one of them once again. We all spent our summers on different journeys. Now we can spend time together having fun and making new memories once again. Oh, by the way......Remember Daylight Savings Time is next weekend. Cory and I made our way over to several of our favorite places. Bar Harbor was first on the list. One ... read more