While I am making great strides (LOL) in my knee recovery, I've reached the stage where my brain is tired of TV and reading and keeps telling me that I Need To Be Productive, Damnit. So I went on an errand--just a quick run to the pharmacy, the Asian grocery in the same strip center (frozen dumplings!), and the Post Office.

Spent the rest of the day ( Read more... )

 Ugh, I suck at LJ nowadays. I'm mainly on FB and tumblr but I miss the conversations, you know?

Anyway....

I go back into the hospital tomorrow (Tuesday) to get Yet Another Knee Surgery. It seems that the base (tibial) part of my left replacement has decided to shift in the bone, causing my knee to bow out and put a lot of weird stresses on my lower ( Read more... )

So, I go back to work tomorrow after my 4 weeks off for my knee replacement. It will be interesting getting up at a set time and driving to work again. If history repeats I'll spend most if not all of my first couple of days digging through an enormous backlog of email.

Recovery has been a bit different with this knee. The doc had to deal with a ( Read more... )

Wound up being the first surgery of the day so I got to the hospital at 5 am. Which entailed getting up at 3:30. Bleah.

Unlike the other knee, the left one was absolutely covered in bone spurs. So it took a while, and I was in a really great amount of pain as I was waking up. I mean crying like a baby levels of pain, and I have an absurdly high pain ( Read more... )

I Have Seen the Future, and the Future is My Little Pony Fandom ( Read more... )

Another Dragon*Con has come and gone. I saw 
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The Austin Craft Riot show was nice. Load-in was easy, we had a lot of feet on the ground, and there was air conditioning! Sales were OK, nothing spectacular. I hope we do this again next year as it's nice to have an indoor show in August. They do need to redo the layout slightly to give us folks selling from tables some more room and a couple of ( Read more... )

 ArmadilloCon went very well, sales-wise. I've had to put long hours in the workshop both weekends to refill my stock. Oh, darn. :-)

Seriously. 8-hour days both last weekend and this one. My hands hurt.

Delivered the pins at ArmadilloCon and finally got paid for them this week. \o/

Applied to get into the Cherrywood show again, but I'm not trying for ( Read more... )

More progress!

I have, over the last week, walked from my building to another to get lunch, and run errands at lunch. I know it sounds like small things, but I haven't been able to do either for about a year.

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

My physical therapist has been really working on my knees, and we've been also working on my walk. I still limp and I ( Read more... )

Have now seen the home PT person twice. She is very impressed with my progress and warned me about going too fast. :-) Now that the bandage is off I am getting more twinges and weird sensations inside my knee. Still no real pain, so I'm ahead on that score. I get warning stabs when I bend too far or do something the knee isn't ready for yet, but ( Read more... )