Stuff going on...
So I have, slowly by slowly, been working on getting my brain around doing the things it would take to get my arm in better shape- and the answer is surgery- with what feels like some pretty involved recovery process. The next steps (after finishing tax season) are coming up with the financial impact and flow for my year if I am out of work completely for up to two months and only able to work some kind of impacted situation for an unknown amount of time after that. Alongside that will be listing all the work and non-work obligations I have over all that time so I can at least attempt to get them covered. The most likely time for this is july/august ish- which would likely get me in the walking around out of my house phase from Folsom on through the rest of the fourth quarter events. I will (somewhat unnervingly) be unable to project how involved I will be able to be with those events until I see how the recovery is going. This will definitely be one of those years I don't pick anything up... and driving is likely to be beyond me during some bunch of my recovery time.
I am attempting to balance the fear/worry/overwhelm of working through this with the potential (not certainty) of being able to put my own hair up and doing yoga again (the kind that needs a weight bearing arm)... sometimes it balances. When I add not worrying about my arm in the ways I currently do- it tips the scale very much in favor of surgery. It is hard to hold onto that part though because I will lose from between all to a LOT of functionality during the recovery time, and I will certainly get to worry about other new things afterwards. Anyway none of these things are what may stop this process from going forward- so this is a beginning of the description of my plan for the rest of the year.
I am attempting to balance the fear/worry/overwhelm of working through this with the potential (not certainty) of being able to put my own hair up and doing yoga again (the kind that needs a weight bearing arm)... sometimes it balances. When I add not worrying about my arm in the ways I currently do- it tips the scale very much in favor of surgery. It is hard to hold onto that part though because I will lose from between all to a LOT of functionality during the recovery time, and I will certainly get to worry about other new things afterwards. Anyway none of these things are what may stop this process from going forward- so this is a beginning of the description of my plan for the rest of the year.