I had surgery on my left shoulder Friday Sep 4th. I don't like hospitals, but Fondren Orthopedic Hospital is quite good. Almost everyone there is friendly and has a "pleaser" attitude, which is very good. A couple of the nurses were only so-so, seeming bored with their lives and not very interested in us patients. But they were better than what I've seen in other hospitals. I think there were only three patients that stayed overnight Friday. Most of their surgeries are day surgery.
The doctor repaired the torn cartilage from the recent injury, smoothed some older cracked cartilage and removed chips and trash in the joint from an older injury, and thinks I’ll be OK. There is an area with no cartilage that could be fixed with a small coated metal plate, but that would be for a later surgery if needed (probably not). I expected quite a bit of pain, but it hasn’t been much of a problem. I credit that to the prayer support I’m getting.
I am sleeping a lot. I’ll work from home tomorrow. Then, maybe Wed I’ll try driving to work if it feels fine. Terri has been wonderful. She has cooked great meals and done my jobs like feeding Sapphire and taking out the trash. She got me started on a big puzzle. She rented two movies for us to watch. Thank you Terri! This is even though she is feeling poorly with a TMJ problem. I love you Terri.
I've discovered that life quickly gets very boring if you can't do much of anything. I'd rather be busy than bored.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
What's goin on
Well, it's about time to post a second blog entry. I don't have any fans yet, so I'm really writing to myself, sort of like a diary.
I must mention two new blogs that are already great and will be incredible over the next year. One is Kristy's at http://goodmorningteacher-kristy.blogspot.com/ . Kristy is a wonderful writer, as you can see if you read her first few postings. They are fascinating, and very descriptive -- it is like you are there with her. The other is Nathan's at http://saudiaggie.blogspot.com/. Nathan is also an incredible writer. His Beijing blog and its stories and photos are amazing -- I still go back and read them from time to time. I wonder how long blog sites remain up. It will be a shame if they remove that one some day.
I think I'll write a bit about where I was one and two weeks ago. Terri, Emily and I went with Terri's mom to Germany/Austria/Italy for 12 days. Terri planned it all, and did an amazing job, putting us in wonderful bed-and-breakfast hotels and scheduling perfect tourist activities. It was a very relaxing trip for me, since all I had to do was follow the ladies around. Everything in Germany was beautiful and very interesting. Lots of flowers, vineyards, rivers, hills and mountains. HUGE mountains. A huge lake, the Bodenzee or something like that. Take a look at Emily's facebook at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2801413&id=8371261&l=acde2b25d7 . Emily created a superb album of our photos with lots of great explanations that tell the story of our trip much better than I can here. We also got to visit some wonderful friends, Meri and Verner Schmidt and their son Niko. Meri was our au peir when Emily was born, taking care of two-year- old Nathan for several months. Meri and Verner came back to visit us several years later, then Nathan visited them four years ago. They cooked us a delicious dinner, and took us to visit some very interesting and beautiful places down by the Bodenzee. It was great catching up and seeing them again. I'm so glad we stayed in touch.
Nathan flew to Saudi on Tuesday. He will be working on a master's degree at KAUST, and I'm sure he will take full advantage of the opportunities this adventure will offer. I'm extremely proud of Nathan, and have great confidence in him. His biggest news was his marriage in May to Carissa. She is brilliant, fun, in love with the Lord, and the perfect wife for Nathan. They lived in Ithaca NY this summer where she is attending Cornell U, working on a doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering. I mentioned that she is brilliant, right? So she is in Ithaca and Nathan is in Saudi. They will surely find fun places to meet for their holidays. Spain is about half way between.
Emily continues to amaze me. She worked as an intern for Exxon again this summer, and wowed them again with her personality and highly effective work skills. I'm sure she will get an offer to work there following her graduation from A&M in the spring. Emily leaves tomorrow to move back to A&M.
Terri is back teaching at FBBA again. She has such great stories to tell most days when I get home. She is also amazing. I am SOOOO BLESSED! Thank you God!
I must mention two new blogs that are already great and will be incredible over the next year. One is Kristy's at http://goodmorningteacher-kristy.blogspot.com/ . Kristy is a wonderful writer, as you can see if you read her first few postings. They are fascinating, and very descriptive -- it is like you are there with her. The other is Nathan's at http://saudiaggie.blogspot.com/. Nathan is also an incredible writer. His Beijing blog and its stories and photos are amazing -- I still go back and read them from time to time. I wonder how long blog sites remain up. It will be a shame if they remove that one some day.
I think I'll write a bit about where I was one and two weeks ago. Terri, Emily and I went with Terri's mom to Germany/Austria/Italy for 12 days. Terri planned it all, and did an amazing job, putting us in wonderful bed-and-breakfast hotels and scheduling perfect tourist activities. It was a very relaxing trip for me, since all I had to do was follow the ladies around. Everything in Germany was beautiful and very interesting. Lots of flowers, vineyards, rivers, hills and mountains. HUGE mountains. A huge lake, the Bodenzee or something like that. Take a look at Emily's facebook at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2801413&id=8371261&l=acde2b25d7 . Emily created a superb album of our photos with lots of great explanations that tell the story of our trip much better than I can here. We also got to visit some wonderful friends, Meri and Verner Schmidt and their son Niko. Meri was our au peir when Emily was born, taking care of two-year- old Nathan for several months. Meri and Verner came back to visit us several years later, then Nathan visited them four years ago. They cooked us a delicious dinner, and took us to visit some very interesting and beautiful places down by the Bodenzee. It was great catching up and seeing them again. I'm so glad we stayed in touch.
Nathan flew to Saudi on Tuesday. He will be working on a master's degree at KAUST, and I'm sure he will take full advantage of the opportunities this adventure will offer. I'm extremely proud of Nathan, and have great confidence in him. His biggest news was his marriage in May to Carissa. She is brilliant, fun, in love with the Lord, and the perfect wife for Nathan. They lived in Ithaca NY this summer where she is attending Cornell U, working on a doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering. I mentioned that she is brilliant, right? So she is in Ithaca and Nathan is in Saudi. They will surely find fun places to meet for their holidays. Spain is about half way between.
Emily continues to amaze me. She worked as an intern for Exxon again this summer, and wowed them again with her personality and highly effective work skills. I'm sure she will get an offer to work there following her graduation from A&M in the spring. Emily leaves tomorrow to move back to A&M.
Terri is back teaching at FBBA again. She has such great stories to tell most days when I get home. She is also amazing. I am SOOOO BLESSED! Thank you God!
Monday, February 9, 2009
This is my first blog, a work in progress, very slow progress. I've enjoyed Nathan's blog beijingag.blogspot.com and Star's blog at starsoverbangkok.blogspot.com, and several other great blogs. Mine will never approach their accomplishment in story-telling, photos or wit. But here it is. Well, eventually.
I should mention first that I love the Lord, and that I've been blessed with a wonderful wife, Terri, and the best kids in the world, Nathan and Emily. I am so proud of them!
My favorite activity is playing tennis, but I hurt my wrist and haven't been able to play since September. So I'm getting what looks like a small beer belly. It isn't from drinking beer! It is from not playing tennis three times a week. And maybe from getting old.
I also love missions, and have been on church mission trips to Honduras lots of times. More on this later.
I like movies with happy endings. I hate spending 2 hours watching a potentially good movie that has a bad or unhappy ending. Why spend all that time to get depressed?
I work a little too much, but I really like my job and the people I get to work with. I work for a great company, Wells Fargo. There might be two good healthy large banks right now in the USA, and I think Wells Fargo is one of them.
I like to ride my bike with my dog. I really like Blue Heelers. Our first one, Bullet, lived about 15 years and was the best dog in the world. Our second one isn't that great, but is a good bike companion because she runs fast for a long time and loves it. She also likes to chase ducks and squirrels. Which can sometimes be dangerous when you are zooming along with her connected to the bike, and suddenly she leaps at a squirrel or duck scampering/flapping out of our way. Bullet crashed me once, hurting us both, but we got over it after a few weeks. We have a better bike-dog attachment device now, a "Springer", so such wrecks aren't very likley anymore. Get one if you have a fast dog and like to bike, and don't mind just a little danger. The dog LOVES it.
I like to mess with computers. I've built several, but not recently, because my family transitioned to laptops, which can't be built by a do-it-yourselfer. It is almost time to replace this one, so maybe this summer...
It is getting late. I wish days had 26 hours, so I could play an extra hour and sleep an extra hour.
That's all for now.
I should mention first that I love the Lord, and that I've been blessed with a wonderful wife, Terri, and the best kids in the world, Nathan and Emily. I am so proud of them!
My favorite activity is playing tennis, but I hurt my wrist and haven't been able to play since September. So I'm getting what looks like a small beer belly. It isn't from drinking beer! It is from not playing tennis three times a week. And maybe from getting old.
I also love missions, and have been on church mission trips to Honduras lots of times. More on this later.
I like movies with happy endings. I hate spending 2 hours watching a potentially good movie that has a bad or unhappy ending. Why spend all that time to get depressed?
I work a little too much, but I really like my job and the people I get to work with. I work for a great company, Wells Fargo. There might be two good healthy large banks right now in the USA, and I think Wells Fargo is one of them.
I like to ride my bike with my dog. I really like Blue Heelers. Our first one, Bullet, lived about 15 years and was the best dog in the world. Our second one isn't that great, but is a good bike companion because she runs fast for a long time and loves it. She also likes to chase ducks and squirrels. Which can sometimes be dangerous when you are zooming along with her connected to the bike, and suddenly she leaps at a squirrel or duck scampering/flapping out of our way. Bullet crashed me once, hurting us both, but we got over it after a few weeks. We have a better bike-dog attachment device now, a "Springer", so such wrecks aren't very likley anymore. Get one if you have a fast dog and like to bike, and don't mind just a little danger. The dog LOVES it.
I like to mess with computers. I've built several, but not recently, because my family transitioned to laptops, which can't be built by a do-it-yourselfer. It is almost time to replace this one, so maybe this summer...
It is getting late. I wish days had 26 hours, so I could play an extra hour and sleep an extra hour.
That's all for now.
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