We have started yet another year with a dance injury. Cymbre has managed to do something new to her knee, and today after the doctors pushed and pushed on it, she is in quite a bit of pain. She is hardly walking, and Dad is going to get the crutches out when he comes home. It's something about a piece that goes around the kneecap but isn't supposed to go under the kneecap. Hers is inflammed and under the kneecap. How she manages to get so lucky to always have pain in her knee is beyond me. She is a trooper though.
However, this has caused her to not be able to go to Tap University this weekend....so to appease her, Dad said he would send her to hug the grandbabies for the time in July while Cooper and I go to Tap Kids in Vermont if Cooper makes it. Cymbre has a plane ticket, so she would come even if Cooper doesn't go to tap kids, which is highly unlikely. Cymbre is already rubbing it in that she will play with the babies and Cooper won't. So, you guys in Utah need to come up with some fun things that might have wheelchairs if needed, to do with Aunt Cymbre about the middle of July for several days. I have to look up the dates, but Tap kids is for about 10 days. If Dad sends her to Utah, he doesn't have to take all that time off work, and the babies will get to see their Aunt. And Grandma is trying to figure out a way to be in two places at once!
The physical therapy for my hand seems to be doing nothing, but the new neck exercises have made it tingle more and then feel a bit better...who knows what they will say on Wednesday. I know not doing anything is REALLY BORING, and it's killing me not be to able to sew! Writing is hard, curling my hair impossible, crocheting is out of the question, cutting paper is a challenge...I can iron, but who wants to do that all day? Russell, don't get any ideas! Folding laundry makes it more numb, driving the car makes my whole arm tingle, but wearing the brace thing at night makes it somewhat possible to doze for a few minutes here and there. There is something when you try to lay down that numb hands don't like. Something about nerves connected to the spine. Give me a break...just fix me!
I guess right now, I am just the perfect Grandma to sit and hold babies all day! So where are the babies? And I can line up cars if I hold my wrist just right, and don't let it bend!
I talked to the physical therapist, and she said that since I have had problems with my hands for years, crocheting Britain's blanket was just the last straw....I told her that wasn't a good option! She said it would have happened even if I was just scrapbooking, sewing, or doing anything else that has a repetitive motion. I have overused my wrist for 51 years it seems. I guess I need to talk to someone about an extended warranty! And where would you find an extra not used wrist if you need one?
I have enjoyed teaching my sunday school class, and they enjoy it when I bring what the call "Cooper Cookies". They are just the break and bake chocolate chip cookies, but they all think that she makes them from scratch....we are just letting them think that. She enjoys the reputation she has earned by taking cookies to people she thinks need them. I teach the 16-18 year olds. There are 16 of them. And they are quickly learning that Sister Flanagan thinks they need their scriptures in class. This week I made them journals for them to write their feelings about the Savior in this year, since that's what we are studying. Even put a pen with them so they couldn't say they didn't have anything to write with. Thanks goodness Dad and the girls helped me make them. The other classes have people that want them too.
Very cold and windy here today...good day to stay home....and Cymbre is passing her time in the whirlpool tub! The hot water makes her muscles relax and eases the pain a little. Thank goodness for tylenol with codeine!
Well, must get busy...got to organize the competition costumes that are laying in the cradle, and I have just a few more pieces of ironing, and I have to curl my hair...oh joy! The costumes are a mess because I took them off the coat tree to put up Christmas decorations.
Cymbre gave me her old Ipod, but I don't know how to work it, so she is going to give me lessons....I know....bad! But I know how to work an old fashioned typewriter, and Cymbre has no clue!
Everyone get out there and do something for a stranger....they need to have a good day too!
Hug all those Grandbabies for Grandma and Grandpa and the Aunties.
Love you bunches.
Mom
