Kim's Injury

It's been a while since I have said anything about Kim's leg that got broke back in May. It is pretty much healed. The only problem now is getting the full functionality back. She still uses her cane but it is more for speed and insurance against a long hard day. She can do a lot of stuff without it and sometimes forgets where she left it when she is doing stuff around the house. It is frustrating to wait for the half life of getting back to normal to come.

McDonald's Handicapped Parking

Kim and I went out to McDonald's for breakfast. Her leg is getting much better but not quit all the way there yet so we wanted to use the handicapped parking. One problem- the handicapped parking was between the building and the drive through lane and since they are busy on Saturdays there was no access to the handicapped parking. Kim was able to make it in ok but about those those people who really need it. It was only for a Mcdee's breakfast but handicapped people want aas normal of a life as anyone else and things like this just make it harder. Poor planning. I guess seeing the mobility issues Kim is having has made me a lot more sensitive to the everyone who has mobility issues. Time to turn off the soapbox.

Changes

Kim has gone off to work in Indy for the first time without me. I hope her ankle holds up. I am pretty sure it will. Things has changed and it seams so different since I have been taking care of her or acting as a safety net for the last three months.

CHWO, one of my favorite radio stations is also changing. It no longer has the same call letters. Things change and that is the nature of life and living.

With that I will hand this post over to David
Bowie.

Kim's Ankle-Final Update?

This may be the last update on Kim's ankle. She is out of Physical therapy and is back to work.
She also had the last check up with the doctor. Everything is proceeding well. The ankle is not 100% but is has been going well. The only done side is that she could quite handle the drive home from Indy on Thursday and I had to take over for the last hour. Pretty darn good over all but still disappointing. The rest will come.

A Neat Caching Story

Kim's ankle is still getting better so we decided to go caching. The plan was to do a maintenance run on one of our own and find a cache we had not yet found in the park. We got a little extra. The cache we found was a neat find even though the cache needed a bit of maintenance as well. I guess it has been a hard summer on caches since ours needed filling as well. When we got over to Second Nature: Mushrooms we found a tb. I did not think much of it at the time since I am going to the Midwest Geobash in a week or two I picked it up without looking at the logs. When we got home, we found out this poor little bug had been missing since 2005. I am still wondering where the heck he could have been. Apparently there have been some other bugs go missing from our cache but hopefully it is just people on vacation who have not logged them yet. I hate to see them go missing and I love it when they are brought back from the dead.

A Kim Update

Kim went to physical therapy today and the therapist was happy with the progress. After checking to see if she could, Kim drove for the first time since she broke her leg. Another step forward. Her leg is coming along. It is very much in the realm of progressing nicely and still frustrating because it is not 100% yet or even functional enough. It is getting there.

Kim's Ankle

Kim was in the pool for the second time in as many days and it helped a lot. Here is to seeing progress and hoping for more.

Kim is Back in the pool

Kim finally got to go back in the pool. The physical therapist not only said it was ok but actually encouraged her to do so. Not only was it refreshing on a hot day but she got to walk without a walker and got to do some exercises in a less weight bearing environment. Another step in the healing (pun intended).

Kim's Ankle

Kim's ankle is getting better. She is allowed to have her leg out of the cast as much as she wants. She only needs it if the leg gets achy or just want to be safer against hitting it. On Monday, she start Physical Therapy.

The Last Few Days

Kim tried going back to work this week and it just did not work out. We got to visit with Torry and that was nice. Also got to see the Embertons. They are great, neat people. I was able to get some rest in as well as some caching, waymarking and benchmark hunting. That was really good for my mental health. It really helped me work off some stress. I also played knightmare chess with Tony Emberton and that helped a lot. I am going to work on having some me time while getting Kim back to health. I can't afford to get burned out. There are some tough times ahead but we are doing a plan of attack and hopefully we can deal with the things ahead. God will provide. It is just scary when you don't see it.

Grateful Plug to FWO

I would like to go on record that I am impressed with Fort Wayne Orthopaedics. They have been very professional and very helpful in getting Kim better and comfortable. Their website is here. They are a class act who has helped us in this stressful time and for that I am grateful..

Back to work

Kim went back to work. Both of us are kinda nervous about how this is going to work out. I am concerned for her and her leg. I am also concerned about how well i can drive. I am not as use to driving around and not use to big city driving. I did well today though. Until later.



Man, I am tired.

The Hunt Continues

I got to find a benchmark today while running some errands. It really felt good to have some fun with all the stress lately. Things will get easier but for now, it can be a bit much.

Kim's New Cast

Kim has gone for her first check up. She has been cleared for work with restrictions. She had her stitches taken out and got a sci fi cool looking cast. More to follow.

Kim's Cast -An Update

This is a picture of Kim's cast which she will be losing for another tomorrow. Hopefully she will be cleared for work. She has been getting around more and better. We actually got out to McDonald's yesterday to visit with Linc, Ton and the kids. I was glad we got to see them since we missed the original chance of seeing them due to the injury. Things are looking better but we are not out of the woods yet.

The saga conitnues

Kim is doing well. She is getting use to the walker and she is not needing vicodin at night as much. The pain must be getting better if other spots of discomfort are being noticed. Updates will come as they roll in.

They are coming to take her away, ha-ha

Pictures of them taking Kim off to the hospital.

Kim's ankle

It has been an interesting two days. We had a Memorial day weekend over at our place on Sunday. We had just opened the pool and Kim did the first cannon ball of the season and landed on the bottom of th pool wrong. She ended up breaking her leg and there was a 14 mm (over half an inch separation of the bone. He had seeing and hearing her in pain. She is home now and has gone from vicodin to advil so the pain is decreasing nicely. Needless to day, I was running on very little sleep lately. Since she is a computer jockey , we are looking into her possibly telecommuting.