Sitting at Mom\u2019s, recovering from hernia surgery. The air is a nice 73 degrees. It\u2019s a bit breezy; a little cool in the shade in this late afternoon. Teresa is up in the orange tree trimming branches. Sepi is out watering with the hose making Mom nervous. She still has her dislocated shoulder in a sling and Mom is terrified she will fall again.
When I got off the freeway in Santa Clara yesterday I opened the car window and had a major deja vu moment. It took me right back to the many summer days spent here doing all the things that we kids did in the summer: riding bikes, playing baseball, walking in the creek throwing rocks at lizards.
Today we took Mom for a walk around the block. She didn\u2019t want to go that far when we left but she went all the way around. It was .57 miles. Sepi likes to lean on me for safety. Mom had her wheeled walker.<\/p>\r\n
The surgery was a week ago last Thursday. The first couple of days were rough but since then I\u2019ve been able to do pretty much what I want to as long as it doesn\u2019t involve heavy lifting. I have a little pain in my gut that surfaces when I make certain movements. The doc gave me Norco – which I call Vicodin (I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s really the same) – but I haven\u2019t had to take any. Ibuprofen and Tylenol are doing the trick.<\/p>\r\n
Tim from work called me today and wanted to know how I was doing and if I was still planning on coming to work next Wednesday as scheduled. I\u2019ts been really nice to not have to think about all that stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Now for the less than idyllic: Teresa needs more bags for the oranges she\u2019s harvesting. I don\u2019t have shoes on so Mom went in under the tree to deliver them and I was watching carefully. We don\u2019t want her to fall either!<\/p>\r\n
I\u2019m not so good I can write well with distractions like that. It\u2019s my first post in more than a year so I\u2019ll be happy with this.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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