How not to tear your shoulder while slinging a big ole, heavy sack of garbage into the back of your husband's truck , because it is Saturday and the dump won't be open again until Tuesday, and you don't want that smelly bag in your house till then !!

JUST DON'T DO IT !!!!! What is that saying about hindsight ? Well, here I am preparing for yet another surgery. Monday I will be having arthroscopic surgery on my right shoulder. Three of the four tendons in my rotator cuff are torn. ( One 50 percent and two 100 percent. ) The surgeon said that I will not be able to use my right arm for four weeks and then three months of P. T. ( I wonder if I will be able to use my fingers to type ? ) This will be the fifth surgery I have had in under three years and do you know what I am dreading the most....? Needles !!!
Sixty years old and still hate needles especially when they try to start I.V.s and can"t find a vein...and say "You have weird veins - they run sideways ." Matter of fact, they are making me come in four hours early in case they have to do a picc line. ( Those are not fun either.)

I will also miss my grandkids. Those two think that I am their personal sofa. It is hard to keep them off my lap. Caitlin has already informed me that she will not be going to school this Monday, but will be going to the hospital with me!

Please pray that the surgery will be successful and I will have a quick recovery and that they will have no problems starting an I.V. Pray for David too. He has several jobs he is working on now and will not be able to be at home with me very much. ( But we are so thankful that he has the work.)

No, that is not David tagging that wall, he is still in the electrical business

( My sister whipped up this interesting photo of Caitlin and myself. )

But most of all I will miss going to church , worshiping and being with my fellow believers in Christ.