Hi-I’ve just read your initial post, and all the following. You have been through a Lot. I’m so sorry! Along with others, I wish you the very best.... hopefully your GP might have some different insights & possibly suggestions to help you get some relief. It sounds like you have a very supportive husband. That is special, one of the best medicines......And your little dogs.... we have one rather spoiled, very loving, very loyal little kitty..they do bring us a lot of joy and distraction, don’t they. ( Miss Felicity is also a rescue...I think they know, and they appreciate that).
You make your own gingerbread house... wow! Mama always made a big stuffed turkey on Christmas as well as Thanksgiving for our family of 6. I have wonderful memories of smelling that turkey baking when we woke up early Christmas morning... she’d put it on to bake After we returned from midnight mass, After she & Papa got us to bed, & they had assisted Santa. Breakfast was her wonderful oatmeal cookies & hot cocoa.
We are also scaling down our Christmas this year. We’ll still put up some things, but a lot less. My recovery is a little setback due to an infection & 2nd surgery to clean out. Thanksgiving was non- traditional, but so wonderful, with family here. Our daughter plans to help us get up a smaller tree that we usually put upstairs, we have some lights , & some very favorite things I’d like to get out, but it will be low-key this year. I tire out pretty fast after this last surgery, & know I’d best behave myself. I see regularly on this forum, folks further along than I am, who tire, & am reminded it does slow the healing process. I understand that feeling like a slug.....but, I guess, sometimes we just have to,.
It’s getting late here, so I should turn out my lamp. Full day tomorrow- visit to my surgeon, nurse to come re-dress my PICC line & draw blood, & then physical therapy. Had hoped to stretch it out a little, but, this is how it worked out! So, gonna try & get some . And hoping you get some, too. Thinking about you & your Dr visit.... sometimes, a different viewpoint can result in a new & better approach. That’s my prayer for you. Take care.