Hi @ Barbarooproud - I hope you are doing well today. I agree with you, having to slow down is difficult! I’m normally very active; in a way, this TKR & then the infection & subsequent 2nd surgery Making me slow down so much has been a good experience. Maybe sometimes, I’m too hard on myself, & set my expectations a little high, & then, in my stubborn way, insist on following through.
I was Not able to attend that last week of our beloved Farmers Market, & tell our many friends there goodbye til next year. Our Christmas is down scaled this year, & I Supervised our tree going up & decorated, by husband, daughter & grandson. Not doing my usual baking. But, taking care of myself, & resting a lot. I still tire out easily. Right now, with Dr appointments, PT, and having to get up at 6AM every day for antibiotic infusions, I do get tired. As Hawk2go said, just so many spoons! And, we try to walk regularly, & I try to do as many of the exercises as I can. It’s hard work, just recovering, I’m learning, both through my own experiences & the folks I’ve come to know on Bonesmart....a lot of lessons out there & wise advice.
So, I love to read, so often, get out my latest book ( currently an old A.J. Cronin book , an author I loved as a teenager.... getting re-aquatinted). The reading relaxes me, & I often get a little nap in..
We haven’t been able to do a lot of shopping other than online... not the little personal things I like to pick out. But having to delay my flu shot means I just Don’t get out, other than the necessary visits. It has Definitely been a learning process for me.
One gift we are especially excited with.... a gift basket sold by one of our favorite farming families. It’s an old fashioned basket, literally Filled with fruit & vegetables, also several jars of jams, pickled items & mixed nuts. And, we are supporting this wonderful farming family, very good people who have had a tough year with the Pandemic & then a tornado that hit their farm earlier this year. And our daughter, her husband & grandson will love it! So we got a sorta vicarious “ last visit “ this year to our Farmers Market, and our friends, after all.
All this to say, it will be a different Christmas for us this year, definitely scaled down, but I think, a very memorable one. Btw, as I type this, I’m watching my husband, on his laptop, dozing off now & then ( he gets up Faithfully, Every morning to do my infusions & lets me get a few more winks), & our faithful little Felicity Kitty next to me on the couch, snoozing blissfully away.
I do hope you have a wonderful Christmas, and remember, folks will for the most part, understand if you are not at full speed. Just take care of yourself, & let your body heal. Give Yourself the gift of kindness. And remember, it Does get better, even if it’s a tiny bit each day.....
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