Gosh what a horrible blogger I have been.  I started in 2006 and hardly ever missed a day and visited so many friends blogs.  No more,  I'm just not good at it any more.  I'm sorry but doubt I'll change.  When I think about all the wonderful people I have met both online and some in person as well it makes me so happy, they have enriched my life for sure.

So what is happening in my world these days?  Well I'm still in physical therapy and doing really good.  I don't know why I had so little of it the last time, perhaps I just had the wrong people.  This time I'm doing it here where I live in an outpatient location on the grounds.  It's new and very nice and the therapists are wonderful.  I'm walking both with a cane and sometimes without it and I'm doing strength training to build muscle again.  They have all the top of the line equipment and I am taking full advantage of it.

The year has brought many changes into my life and for the most part they are good changes.  I love where I live and the many new friends I have made here.  It's actually like living on a cruise ship without the ocean.  You dress for dinner at night and you have activities both day and night, as much or as little is you want.  I laugh loud and often and I just love life.

Thanks for visiting!

I saw the surgeon today and I am on schedule to go home Thursday. I am so ready!  It’s all good here!

Not positive but I was told today I should get to go home next Thursday.  I did really good in PT today. In fact I shocked him!

xoxo

Surgical update one week out. I have a good amount of pain but it is definitely improving. PT is hard but necessary so I do it. I had my first shower today. Bliss. And that is all I know.

Dumb Bee

I'm having my right hip replaced Thursday.  I'm all packed for re-hab.  Three days in the hospital and then re-hab here at La Posada.  My room is reserved and all ready for me.  I'm so glad this is happening.  When the pain is so bad you can't exercise it's time to go and that is what happened.  I have lots of help and do not need a thing I don't have.

I will try to post but don't make any promises.  Facebook is so much easier.  I'll only have my phone and not my computer with me.  

You can email me if you want, it's on the sidebar.  I'll answer as soon as I can.  The PT will be intense and that's a good thing.

Other than that my life is still wonderful!

I'm posting this photo so you can see how the face is holding up.  It's been a couple of years now and this is not retouched in any way.  No cream on the eyes because that tightens up those wrinkles when I put it on.  

My hair is finally growing in too.  Boy that was tough losing all the hair.  I guess all in all it was a small price to pay but it still was a royal pain.  I hated wearing a wig.  Itchy and hot.  When I'd get home it was a tossup which came off first, the wig or the bra! lol

Tonight the mayor of the pool and his bride are coming up here to dinner.  I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Have a lovely day y'all.   I will too for sure!

Yesterday we had "Yappy Hour"

in the bar... Of course Roche' 

decided to go!

There were treats and prizes and about 25 dogs and one cute rock!  Roche' ordered a Rolling Rock beer and requested rock and roll music.  After his beer he got a little "boulder"!

Sorry for the grainy photos.  

I took photos from the newsletter.

We had SUCH a great time!  It started with a cocktail hour with passed Hors d'oeuvres followed by a lovely delicious dinner of beef tenderloin and then it was off to the casino.  It was play money of course but there were prizes for the winners at the end of the night and drawings for prizes every half hour.  I had a wonderful evening.  

There is always something fun to do here.  I wish everyone could have as much fun as I'm having!

So last night's movie was LBJ.  I had never seen it and I did like the movie but I couldn't help thinking about how much Sarge disliked that man.  Not for his civil rights bill but over Viet Nam.  He always said we could have easily won that war (war - not police action as they like to call it) and how so many died for nothing and we ran with our tails between our legs and left the South Vietnamese to fend for themselves, horrible outcome.  When we went there he truly believed it was the right thing to do.  Right or wrong that's what he thought.  It was a tossup which he disliked more, LBJ or Jane (Hanoi) Fonda.  Then he died from Agent Orange.  So tragic.  73 years old.  He should have had many more good years.  He worked hard all his life for that retirement and was cheated out of it.  

Anyway I did enjoy the movie and got to see Ryan too.  Now I'm off to see Dr. Wacks for the second part of my physical.  I have lost weight.  I can't wait to see how much!

Have a great day y'all.  I will too for sure...

Just a bit of the wildlife I saw having my coffee on the screened porch.  Plenty to look at here!  The iguana will get lots bigger  They sort of scare me but I don't get close.  There was a fourth bird, a brown one that looked just like the white ones but I didn't get a good shot of her.  They were pecking at the ground, getting bugs I suppose.  Very busy anyway!

Today I am about to go play Rummy Kue or however you spell that.  We have between six and eight that play and it's lots of laughs. 

Have a great Monday!  I shall too!