Month: March 2021

Funny Thing Happened

Before sharing the Funny, I have to share this with you! I Love My WW Members! Such a great Workshop yesterday. During the first half of the Workshop we discuss what is working, what isn’t and how we can continue to do the things that work and how we can make changes to the things that are not working. One member shared how this week she had some recent feelings of frustration with having to track her food and the many other things she was doing in her life that were all in the name of good health. This week she decided to look at the work she was doing and the time she was putting into taking care of herself as an opportunity to, in her words “manage my health”. She turned her thinking around and decided that it was not something she HAD to do, but something she […]

Sunshine and Food Finds

Happy Monday friends! We’ve had three beautiful sunny days here in KC, which meant beautiful outside walks, time spent outside enjoying a good book and evenings spent on the deck. I hope you’ve all had some sunshine as well along with an opportunity to get out and enjoy it! Today I’m sharing lots of food pics and a few new useful kitchen tools! I’d love to know in the comments what your favorite kitchen tool is!! When Tess came recently for my surgery, she was pleased to see that we had decided to up our knife game. We’ve had really really bad knives like for……well for always and it was just never something I put a lot of time into thinking about spending the money on. And as much time as I spend chopping, you’d think I would have. Anyhow, we have new knives and I can’t believe what a […]

Post-Op….Again

I have way more blog post in the last three years titled…..”Post-Op” than I care to admit. Yet, here I find myself again. 15 stitches. Limited motion. Limited activity. Cover when showering. Daily cleaning of the area and wrapping. Physical Therapy suggested hourly to help prevent scar tissue build up and help with mobility. PT appointments. At the end of the day I still work on finding the silver lining in all of it, but this girl is tired. Thursdays surgery removed the permanent sutures put in to repair the ruptured tendon in my thumb on December 1st. My surgeon, along with a second opinion from a colleague, was concerned the sutures could be hanging onto some bacteria, preventing my staph infection from clearing up. While in there, he also removed a significant amount of scar tissue from the December 1st surgery, which is good because it was attached to […]

This Dang Thumb

Hi friends! I hope you all are doing well. I’m hearing of more and more people getting the vaccine and I’m so excited to hear this and to see some signs of us all being able to move forward and get back to doing the things we love and miss doing. I miss restaurants and concerts and a houseful of family and friends the most. We are getting closer, so be patient and keep hope! We’ve moved past those really cold days and are experiencing some beautiful sunny weather here in KC the last few days. Expected sunny and 70 today, my absolute favorite temperature! We spent Saturday night on the deck watching TV with a fire in the fireplace for the first time in several weeks and it was perfect. If you’ve not watched the series Ted Lasso on Apple TV, I could not recommend it more. Sweet, endearing, […]