T minus 1 day

Tomorrow I'll experience a bilateral TKR - total knee replacement, both knees. So I'm T minus 1 day . . .  and counting. It's been a journey to get here. Since the end of July when I got the bone-on-bone diagnosis, I've been doing stretches every morning and working out with weights two or three days …

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September is the cruelest month

I'm in a perfect storm of overwhelm. My double knee replacement is nine days away. This day, the Tuesday after Labor Day, is the sixth anniversary of my breast cancer diagnosis. And I cracked my phone screen this afternoon. It's September, isn't it? The challenging month in my life! I feel so behind in getting …

Eclipse totality: Beyond

Less than a week ago, I drove about two hours into Tennessee to experience the Great American Solar Eclipse in the path of totality . I had seen partial eclipses before, watched the moon take bigger and bigger bites out of the sun. I had made pinhole viewers and taken high school classes outside to …

How to use a Facebook comment to change someone’s opinion

After reading many, many Facebook posts lately - especially in the last week or so - I've figured out the algorithm of how to use a mere comment on Facebook to change someone's mind. I'll show you my answer. Yes, right here at the beginning of my blog. You won't have to read much at all. …

Intuitive “Hits”: Two VERY similar instances

I've been trying to be more aware of my intuitive "hits" lately. Two similar ones in less than two weeks have me wondering what they mean. I posted this one on Facebook about 10 days ago. I was about to go into Ft. O. I usually take the back way on narrow roads to go …

Knee Replacement: How was I so unaware?

I'll give the quick update first. If you read my post last week, you know I was seeing an orthopedist about my knees, anticipating that he'd say I need replacement of both knees. And that's what happened. I'm scheduled for double knee replacement - that's right, both at the same time - in the middle …

My time in this limbo

I've been feeling that I'm caught in some kind of limbo, the one of "limbo" definition c. from Dictionary.com: an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place. This current here of my now feels like a transitional place, affected partly by my trip to an orthopedist a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was a candidate …