• 16Sep 09

  An Update on Me and My Ankle

  Well, since my last blog, hubby managed to find some underarm crutches online and bought them, they have been a lot easier to use than the elbow crutches I must say. But the weight of the pot/cast still hampered a lot of movement.

  This morning I went back to the hospital for an appointment to have a new pot/cast put on and an x-ray done. This pot/case is so much lighter it's ridiculous. And the x-rays looked really good to the doctor. I don't have to go back for four weeks and at that time they will take this pot/cast off to look at the stitches (although, they may have dissolved away by that time), take another x-ray and depending on the results of that x-ray I will either be able to keep the pot/cast off or have a walking one put on...I hope it is one I can take off...if push came to shove I could have mom send the one I have from when I broke my right foot eleven years ago...

  • Posted Sep 16, 2009 8:21 am PT
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• 7Sep 09

  Hubby and I must be the unluckiest people around...

  Where to start...this last May we had to buy a new washer/dryer as the old one broke. Two weeks ago, just before hubby's carpal tunnel surgery, the lawnmower broke and had to buy a new one. Then he had the surgery and ended up in hospital the next day from a bad reaction to the codeine they'd given him for pain. Then not this last Saturday, but the one before, the heating element in our stove went out...so, we got a new element and replaced it. Then this last Saturday the toaster caught fire and we had to buy a new one...Then, to top it all off I had a very clumsy moment and broke my ankle...I was in hospital from Saturday afternoon until this afternoon (and now I'm thinking I came home too early as I can barely manage the crutches...)...I really wish they still did under arm crutches, all they have are these stupid elbow crutches...ugh! I hope this was the last of our run of bad luck...

  • Posted Sep 7, 2009 12:47 pm PT
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• 15Aug 09

  Books 21-50

  Well, it's been a while, so here is a continuation of my favorite books (links again, and in no particular order):

  21. Beauty, Robin McKinley
  22. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
  23. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
  24. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
  25. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
  26. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
  27. The Demon Lover, Victoria Holt
  28. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
  29. The Summer Tree (Fionavar Tapestry), Guy Gavriel Kay
  30. The Wandering Fire (Fionavar Tapestry), Guy Gavriel Kay
  31. The Darkest Road (Fionavar Tapestry), Guy Gavriel Kay
  32. Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
  33. Airframe, Michael Crichton
  34. Left Behind (the entire series, but not all listed here), Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
  35. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in the US...and the entire series), J.K. Rowling
  36. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
  37. The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory
  38. The Shakespeare Secret, J.L. Carrell
  39. The Breathtaker, Alice Blanchard
  40. The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
  41. Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwall
  42. The Cairo Diary, Maxim Chattam
  43. Leota's Garden, Francine Rivers
  44. Gates of Zion (Zion Chronicles), Bodie Thoene
  45. Daughter of Zion (Zion Chronicles), Bodie Thoene
  46. The Return to Zion(Zion Chronicles), Bodie Thoene
  47. A Light in Zion (Zion Chronicles), Bodie Thoene
  48. The Key to Zion (Zion Chronicles), Bodie Thoene
  49. Warsaw Requiem (Zion Covenant, follows on from Zion Chronicles, the other books are here as well if you want to look further), Bodie Thoene
  50. Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini

  Ok, there are a lot of books here, I know...and probably a lot a lot of you have never heard of. But for those that like historical fiction about WWII I recommend the books I listed by Bodie Thoene...I also recommend any book by Francine Rivers to my lady friends (not books most guys would want to read...although, there are aspects of her Mark of the Lion series that the guys would like I think).

  • Posted Aug 15, 2009 7:05 am PT
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