My dear Twife, adopted child, etc, Kake87 will be bravely getting aboard a train to cross the country to come from Ohio and visit me and my girls here in Idaho. She is a professional lurker/occasional poster so I am lighting this fire for her with her permission.
She has a 4-hour layover in Chicago. Is there anything she should see while she is there? (That won't get her lost or be unsafe obvs)
Are there any campers that might want to go and help keep her company while she is between trains?
She will be in Chicago on Rob's birthday-May 13 How funny is that? (pm her for the time because we want to play safe in the forest...)
Post or pm her with your recs!
On another note..
Some of you know that I have been dealing with a bad shoulder the last few weeks and whined about PT. (I would now marry the therapist if he wasn't already-he can zap me with that shock machine any day.)
My MRI showed a small tear on the rotator cuff. They did a cortisone shot... no dice. So my surgeon called me yesterday. I am having surgery tomorrow~needless to say, I'm not happy about it and am a bit nervous.
After talking to my PT it boils down to the color of the sling I have on when I wake up. If it's blue, that means they just 'cleaned things up' (a repeat sub-acromial decompression) my shoulder and didn't find much damage.
If it's black, that means they had to repair the rotator cuff and will be in for a much longer and painful recovery (months vs. weeks).
And yes, this all comes down the week before finals! (But,really, I'm ok there. Heck, I plan to be back in class next Monday...)
So I come home to clear my answering machine and found i've missed a call-from the surgeon's assistant. They found 'something' that was 'not a big deal' in my lab work and he wanted to talk to me about it today. Of course I discovered this at 8p.m. A bit upsetting...after my initial freak out and panicked im's to Kake, I figure that if it was really something big, they'd have kept calling me until they reached me OR cancelled the surgery.
The point of my secondary rant (outside of venting of course) is to ask that you keep me in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow.
*purple font approved*