The days of normalcy continue but I am enjoying doing all the chores and tasks and other things with very little thumb pain. Actually there is no thumb pain of the type I used to have. Now any pain I have is caused by the remnants of the surgery.
So doing laundry, opening jars, shaking hands, taking anything out of my pockets and just about anything I do is a better experience. At the end of the day I used to have sore hands—paying for everything I did that day. Now that is gone and I marvel at the difference.
Penny has had a toothache for the last 3 days. Of course, it happened on a Friday-the day our dentist is off. It then didn’t get so bad as to consider an emergi-center until after 1 on Saturday when they close. Penny didn’t want the emergency room experience so she gutted it out until this morning and finally got to see our dentist. Tonight (Monday) she is starting to feel better.
My biggest issue is trying to get in the exercises I’m supposed to do each day for my thumbs. I’m supposed to do 10 different strengthening exercises on each hand 3 to 4 times a day. One session of the exercises on each hand takes at least 40 minutes to complete. I’m lucky if I get in 1 session each day.
And finally, we went to Lowes on Saturday and once again found some nice negotiable deals. One of the items for sale was a stack of 7 metal house numbers. How often have you looked at discounted letters or numbers and found ones you could use? Well, the 7 numbers contained 2 “ones”, 2 “twos” and 2 “sevens”—2 sets of the numbers we use. I saw it as a sign that I needed to replace my mailbox. So I gave the negotiation task to the master-Penny- and she went in the store and got them for 20 cents a piece.
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