Archive for June 2019
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June 30, 2019Week 3
June 25, 2019Wednesday will be my three week anniversary of my knee surgery. Slowly improving. I am now going to outpatient physical therapy.
Yesterday, they started me with 10 minutes on the stationary bike. (Or as I call it the torture machines). Actually, it wasn’t too awful. 
The incision site is healing nicely. All staples and terri strips removed.
Going forward, outpatient PT twice a week for the next four weeks and visit with surgeon in July. Still a lot of swelling but getting better.
Toy Story 4
June 22, 2019
This weekend my wife and I are caring for our two grand-children while Mom and Dad take a much needed R&R trip to Hawaii. So yesterday, we decided to take the kids to see Toy Story 4, which had just opened. Click here for the trailer.
We saw the movie at a Regal cinema in Ranch Palos Verdes that has wide, comfy seats that recline. Plenty of leg room. One of may favorite cinemas.
I was wondering to myself how did the writers and producers manage to come up with yet another “Toy Story” episode. I am also am wondering if they will manage to come up with a “Toy Story 5”.
So Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Annie Potts are once again astounding in their voicing of their characters.
So Tom Hanks again plays Woody, Tim Allen plays Buzz Light-Year and Annie Potts plays Bo Peep. So the theme is similar but different. Woody and Buzz are once again facing being left behind by children growing up and moving away. And they get right into action to save the situation.
The adults in the room liked it and the kids did too. Definitely worth going to see it.
Knee Update
June 17, 2019So first, a big thank you to all of you that sent me get well messages either by email, facebook or snail mail. As you can see from my greeting card shelf, there have been many cards sent. Awesome. Thanks.
Second, today was my day to get the staples removed. Good to get that done.
Pain is beginning to subside (a little bit). I am trying to wean myself off of the narcotic pain meds and just stick to Tylenol. The narcotics have a side effect of constipation (not fun). Every day gets just a little bit better.
No more PT exercises until Wednesday’s outpatient PT appointment. Then my PT will give me new exercises to inflict pain.
Father’s Day
June 16, 2019Well tomorrow is Father’s Day. So, I thought I would write about my Dad. My Dad died in early 1968 at the age of 6o something. He died of cardiac arrest.
I have often thought of how far we have come on heart health issues. My dad suffered a heart attack in the mid fifties. Back then, they didn’t have much treatment for heart disease. I don’t know much about what happened seeing as I was 7 or 8.
But I do remember this. My dad asked the doctor how he was going to make upstairs into our home. We lived in two family house in Brighton, MA and we occupied the second floor portion.
So the doctor’s answer was he should take it slow. Say one Hail Mary on each step. That would do it.
So fast forward ten years. He was scheduled for gall bladder surgery. He had excessive bleeding from the surgery and surgeons scheduled him for a return visit to the OR to try to find the source of the bleed. So he arrested on the table in OR. The surgeons revived him but he never regained consciousness and died about eight weeks later. Sigh.
He was a great father and I have always missed him.
In honor of Father’s Day here are a couple of my favorite photos of him.
Dad with his pipe. Sitting in his chair.
Mom and Dad. Berkshires. C 1950
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