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My foot surgery (for the quarter-sized open sore on my left foot due to pressure, etc) is due to take place on the 6th - the day AFTER Labor Day. Not looking forward to the pain or the three weeks of can’t-walk, but hoping for a resolution of the open-door-for-infection and the bloody-and-painful-to-be-on-my-feet parts.
Basically, I will be in my library / basement lair for most of that time, and not terribly mobile. After a day or three, the pain from the surgery should die down, and I can do stuff while sitting down, but I’ll be back to my scooter-thang to get around, even in the basement.
There’s always ten tons of things to do; I’m going to be off work for around three weeks, and I’ll have time to catch up on reading, my archived TiVo stuff, you name it. The hardest problem is going to be that Susan will be stuck with a lot of the household stuff to do; I won’t easily be able to go up and down stairs at all, and can’t really carry anything heavier than a can of Pepsi. So my present duties will have to devolve onto other hands. An old friend who isn’t working at present will possibly come out here and be of some help, but if you want to help out in some way, contact Susan and let her know, and she can sort it out. Normally, the situation wouldn’t be that bad, but with us putting a lot of time and effort into taking care of Susan’s mom Connie, I dread putting any more stuff on Susan’s shoulders at all.