Hello to all!
Just had my physical and I'm pronounced clear for surgery! My PCP said that my cholesterol is good so afterward I'm here at a coffee shop to celebrate with a big coffee and a scone!
My hub is 100% Italian and when my MIL was alive boy, could she cook and bake.
When she passed my husband and I were going through her things and he saw me frantically hunting for something-- money? Jewels? Was hunting for her packet of recipes! Cooking and eating as a family is a great joy
@Mayhip8 , and we are informal as you like, no phones allowed at the table. That's a whole new battle to fight as when my kids were small we had no cell phones.
We put off a 30th anniversary trip to Italy
Because of my surgeries but have rescheduled for late April early May of 2020. We will be going to Venice, Florence, Assissi, Positano and Rome, hopefully Ms. Bionic hips here can do it!! Stayed briefly in Italy in the 80s and loved it.
I should have gotten on Bonesmart at 2am this morning when I couldn't sleep.
I finally gave up and broke a Tramadol in half and was asleep soon after.
My sleep is all over the place too.
At my docs appointment this AM I told her I still had pain in my new hip and she seemed surprised. It's much more muscle stiffness and soft tissue pain . The joint and groin feel fine. I can feel pain when I press along my scar. It does get a little better every day and i can say on this my 3 month anniversary that i have no regrets-- but never mind this left leg!
It's getting worse by the day! But I find that when surgery is within 2 or three weeks then the time just flies by.
So get your pompoms ready
@ChrissyW and
@Calgal.
Hope all are safe and dry! Weather here supposed to be beautiful all weekend except for hurricane Ari arriving Saturday!
United Kingdom
. So my next cleaning appointment was made for Decmber 5th. Had to be at least 3 months out from surgery! I drink so much coffee and tea-- I will have to buy tooth whitener.
Such is the rain ( not quite that bad but nearly ) I still feel a bit worried about slipping on wet ground- how strange? - might opt for a relaxing bath instead 
back soon 
. As much as I'm Yorkshire and right on the border between north and West Yorkshire we have been blessed and lucky to have escaped the floods. Some places of North Yorkshire are devastated by the flooding. It has rained heavily, especially yesterday evening when the water was running down the road like a river but fingers crossed and touch all that wood we have the house has stayed dry. We too had issues the last round if flooding a couple of years ago and had water running down the void in the brickwork and in to the kitchen resulting in new kitchen ceiling and new roof!! Hope your mopping up ok and they your mother in law has services restored @Mayhip8 . Just need to see now how @Calgal is doing. Perhaps we all need to pop over the pond and dry off with @ahipgma , what do you think? We could practice our cheer with our planned audience as long as they promise not to laugh as we are still in rehearsal stage.
( we must incorporate some of these moves!)
. We have had flash floods in our hilly city where the hills have slid, and little creeks and runs have overflowed -- sometimes you think water is almost as dangerous as fire. The city officials are promoting this saying " turn around dont drown" to people who are thinking of driving thru a flooding road. We drove Ari home her 80 miles last night and on the way back we had torrential rain, pitch dark and on top of it a mist was coming up! My hub drove us down so I was driving back I was a nervous wreck because I have a little bit of cataracts starting and night rain is not my friend! Made it home and almost kissed the driveway. Whew!
) Then all,of a sudden silence ensues and all that can be heard is the gentle appreciation and murmuring of deliciousness being eaten.
I wake in pain or need a wee or my hip is stuck so I have to walk about . I go into my nest around 21.00 if not earlier because I can't sit down for more than a few hours and take paracetamol X1and zapain X 1 and try to settle to sleep around midnight but often it's gone 1.30 then I wake every 90 mins or so - This morning I did take paracetamol at 04 00 and slept till 07.45 
