It's just too much. Too much Christmas cleaning, picking presents, decorating, you get the picture. I'm sure it's just too much for me...my arm keeps going numb, depending on where I turn my head. Look up in that cabinet - numb. Reach down to the floor - numb. Look straight ahead and don't move - Ah! the magic spot: no numb! It really puts a damper on anything.
I saw Dr. Barr this week and she put about 15 shots all over my upper right back and shoulder, even shooting under my new shoulder incisions. Tell me that didn't hurt! I was really hoping for some kind of block to develope but it seems that it's just made the numbing different. It didn't use to affect my hand so much other than my thumb, now it runs across the top of my hand in into my 3 center fingers. But that's just a small piece of the pie. That alone wouldn't be enough to mess up Christmas decorating for me.
I'm just trying to tell myself that today is better than what tomorrow will probably be and to enjoy it while it lasts.
I haven't had anything listed on eBay since the end of October. I don't like to mess with going to the post office and boxing up stuff through the Christmas season. But this week I got an email from a lady in Ohio who wanted to know if I still had the little Virginia Tech baby onsie outfit. I guess she must have seen it before and saved the info, because when I tried to search it it didn't come up. Anyway, she bought it and I shipped it and she's going to surprise her husband by dressing their little kid who will look adorable if not like a tiny pumpkin in that bright orange suit. I sold stuff without even listing it! How cool is that? Boy, I wish that could happen more often. It's got me thinking, I'll tell you that.
Work at the Cedar Road church is going well. I'd started updating their website and was then told to stop until they could decide on any changes to make. Yesterday the pastor told me to go ahead, that if we wait for decisions to be made it will be 6 months or longer. So I'm up for it.
Last week Mom fell and ended up breaking 2 bones in her right wrist. She now knows first hand what it was like for me when I lost use of my shoulder. Dressing, eating, bathing...I'm just very sorry she had to find out like this. And, since I went through what I did, I'm a little more aware of the dealings she's going through. Like getting into a car on the passenger side and not being able to pull the door closed.
I'm taking her to her hair appointment this morning and helping with some last minute errands she didn't get to finish up for Christmas. We never know when something will come along to change our plans.
Plan on a good Christmas, maybe a great one will come along. Enjoy whatever you get and whomever you get it with! ~LJ
