Well, I just had a great stay-at-home vacation with my sister! She drove all the way from Northern California with her 6-year-old grandson (who she and her husband are raising) and her 16-year-old daughter. It took them 17 hours to get here. Yikes!
We spent a great deal of time in the pool. That first day they were here I think we were in the pool for about 10 hours getting out only for meals and biological imperatives! Fortunately, it's a salt water pool so you don't get as pruney as you would otherwise.
My nephew went from being afraid to get off the 18" big shelf step, to cannon-balling, diving, and swimming halfway to the deep end in about 2 days!
It was fun!
In other news, I have bone spurs in my right shoulder! I've had the cortisone shots and there's nothing left for it but the surgery. And, don't let anyone fool you, that's arthritis! People just like to call it bone spurs because it doesn't sound so middle-aged! LOL
And, let's not forget 6 weeks of physical therapy for my recently broken right leg.
And, the other medical conditions. Sheesh! I'm falling apart!
Oh well, let the remodeling begin. Why not? It worked wonders on my feet! LOL
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Catching up...
So, I've been a bit lax (to say the least) in my blogging. I'm planning to end that very soon.
At the end of May/first week of June, I visited my new gentleman friend, Render. We went to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Annapolis. We ate at some of his favorite places. We had a great time just getting to know each other in person. He's a fine man. And brilliant.
Before my vacation trip, I had to travel for work for 4 days. Then, immediately after returning from my vacation, I had to travel for work 12 hours later! argh!
I got the hardware removed from my leg after only three months instead of the expected six. That was great. But, it did mean I couldn't go in the pool for 2 weeks.
My sister and her family visited for a bit. That was nice. Got to see one nephew that hadn't been over here in ages! He's planning to transfer to a California State University soon to get a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering! Of course I think that's cool since I have a BSEE from UCLA.
And just this past weekend, my wonderful gentleman friend, Render, visited. We drove through Sedona to the Grand Canyon. On the way back we passed by the Little Colorado River Gorge and then through Flagstaff. I just love Arizona. When he visits in the winter we'll see a bit of Southern Arizona.
Oh, all my pix have to move from Photosite! They're booting us all off! Look for an update to the pix in the next couple of weeks.
ARGH! Almost forgot! I do have to go to physical therapy for my leg! That's gonna hurt!
Kirls
At the end of May/first week of June, I visited my new gentleman friend, Render. We went to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Annapolis. We ate at some of his favorite places. We had a great time just getting to know each other in person. He's a fine man. And brilliant.
Before my vacation trip, I had to travel for work for 4 days. Then, immediately after returning from my vacation, I had to travel for work 12 hours later! argh!
I got the hardware removed from my leg after only three months instead of the expected six. That was great. But, it did mean I couldn't go in the pool for 2 weeks.
My sister and her family visited for a bit. That was nice. Got to see one nephew that hadn't been over here in ages! He's planning to transfer to a California State University soon to get a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering! Of course I think that's cool since I have a BSEE from UCLA.
And just this past weekend, my wonderful gentleman friend, Render, visited. We drove through Sedona to the Grand Canyon. On the way back we passed by the Little Colorado River Gorge and then through Flagstaff. I just love Arizona. When he visits in the winter we'll see a bit of Southern Arizona.
Oh, all my pix have to move from Photosite! They're booting us all off! Look for an update to the pix in the next couple of weeks.
ARGH! Almost forgot! I do have to go to physical therapy for my leg! That's gonna hurt!
Kirls
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Bill S1114 provides more oversight of state memorials and monuments
Retyped without permission from the Arizona Capital Times Vol. 108 Issue 24 of June 15, 2007
By Paul Davenport
The Associated Press
In the wake of controversy over the state's Sept. 11 memorial, the Legislature has approved a bill to tighten the approval process for new state memorials and monuments in the Capital complex and any changes to existing ones.
The House on June 8 approved, 44-12, a bill (S1114) that the Senate OK'd May 24. It was sent to Gov. Janet Napalitano, and would effect immediately if she signs it or lets it become law without her signature.
Under the bill, new or revised inscriptions and other design elements would be subject to approval by the Legislative Governmental Mall Commission. Also, proponents of a memorial must pay for any required alterations.
The Mall Commission is early 2006 previewed a gubernatorial commission's general plans for the Sept. 11 memorial, but the inscriptions and other aspects of the memorial drew criticism after it's dedication on the fifth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Memorial Commission members have said the Mall Commission could have reviewed in detail any aspect of their work, but the review it did came before inscription decisions were made.
The Memorial commission agreed recently to make changes to some of the inscriptions and add some interpretive panels to describe the memorial's design.
Financed through private fundraising by the Memorial Commission, the circular metal-and-concrete memorial itself is in a form of limbo.
Though dedicated last Sept. 11, the state Department of Administration's director has withheld formal acceptance of the memorial as state property, initially citing drainage problems and then because of the possibility of changes.
By Paul Davenport
The Associated Press
In the wake of controversy over the state's Sept. 11 memorial, the Legislature has approved a bill to tighten the approval process for new state memorials and monuments in the Capital complex and any changes to existing ones.
The House on June 8 approved, 44-12, a bill (S1114) that the Senate OK'd May 24. It was sent to Gov. Janet Napalitano, and would effect immediately if she signs it or lets it become law without her signature.
Under the bill, new or revised inscriptions and other design elements would be subject to approval by the Legislative Governmental Mall Commission. Also, proponents of a memorial must pay for any required alterations.
The Mall Commission is early 2006 previewed a gubernatorial commission's general plans for the Sept. 11 memorial, but the inscriptions and other aspects of the memorial drew criticism after it's dedication on the fifth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Memorial Commission members have said the Mall Commission could have reviewed in detail any aspect of their work, but the review it did came before inscription decisions were made.
The Memorial commission agreed recently to make changes to some of the inscriptions and add some interpretive panels to describe the memorial's design.
Financed through private fundraising by the Memorial Commission, the circular metal-and-concrete memorial itself is in a form of limbo.
Though dedicated last Sept. 11, the state Department of Administration's director has withheld formal acceptance of the memorial as state property, initially citing drainage problems and then because of the possibility of changes.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
No more cast!
Ok, so I finally get out of the cast and I'm free to "walk as much as I want" per my doctor so, of course, my leg is swollen and hurts! gah! This hiking season is shot! And next fall will probably be shot too since that's about when they should take the hardware out.
But, the pool will be done and begin to fill Tuesday night! At least I will be able to swim!
But, the pool will be done and begin to fill Tuesday night! At least I will be able to swim!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
FREEDOM!
I can now stand and walk without the roll-a-bout!
Still in the boot cast but this is so much better!
I can even drive!
FREEDOM!!!!
Still in the boot cast but this is so much better!
I can even drive!
FREEDOM!!!!
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Finally! No hard cast!
I finally got rid of that awful hard fiberglass cast! I still can't walk though - no weight on my right leg for at least another 2 weeks.
At least I can use the shower again instead of trying to bathe and wash my hair in the bathtub. I nearly drown myself every time I try that! I try to rinse out my hair by leaning back and whoosh! my butt slides out from underneath me, I end up underwater, with my legs sticking straight up! argh!
The shower would be great except the shower stool which was left over from the years of foot surgery, is broken! So, I had the bright idea of just sitting in the bottom of the shower and using the handheld showerhead. Sounds great, right? HA! You get stuck in there! No handholds! You can't get out! argh again!
The pool is nearly done though. I'm sure there will be water in it by the end of April.
Speaking of April, I haven't done my taxes yet! Stupid broken bones!
At least I can use the shower again instead of trying to bathe and wash my hair in the bathtub. I nearly drown myself every time I try that! I try to rinse out my hair by leaning back and whoosh! my butt slides out from underneath me, I end up underwater, with my legs sticking straight up! argh!
The shower would be great except the shower stool which was left over from the years of foot surgery, is broken! So, I had the bright idea of just sitting in the bottom of the shower and using the handheld showerhead. Sounds great, right? HA! You get stuck in there! No handholds! You can't get out! argh again!
The pool is nearly done though. I'm sure there will be water in it by the end of April.
Speaking of April, I haven't done my taxes yet! Stupid broken bones!
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Glow in the Dark cast
Well, it's been two solid weeks since I broke my leg. Still broken.
I saw the doctor today. They removed the cast, inspected the incisions for any problems (none), then applied the new cast. They also taught me to use The Bone Stimulator (yeah, i know there massive amounts of jokes just now popping into your head!). Warning, those pix aren't for the squeamish!
Oh, and they've laid out the forms for the pool decking this week.
I saw the doctor today. They removed the cast, inspected the incisions for any problems (none), then applied the new cast. They also taught me to use The Bone Stimulator (yeah, i know there massive amounts of jokes just now popping into your head!). Warning, those pix aren't for the squeamish!
Oh, and they've laid out the forms for the pool decking this week.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Still Broken - but now i have Xrays to show!
Visited the doctor yesterday. They took xrays. The doctor described the mess he found inside as "a disaster". He had estimated that the entire operation would take about 90 minutes. Three hours later, he was done. There was one piece of bone that was sheared off at a very oblique angle which was difficult to reattach.
I also heard the story from their perspective. You see, while someone else called 911, I called the doctor's office. I said, "Hi, my name is Kirly and I'm a patient of Dr. B. I just broke my ankle. Please give me some advice." Yep, just as calm and cool as that. Of course, they all know me and so couldn't believe it was me and asked me who I was again! You can tell that I have great confidence in this doctor if I called him before I called anyone else. In fact, I wanted the paramedics to just put me in my car and I would drive over to the doctor's office. The break was so unstable the handsome men of the Phoenix Fire Department would hear none of that!
I also got the bad news that this break was so bad that I will be in this cast for a while. Next Thursday, 2 weeks after the breakage, they will remove the cast but only to see how the wound is healing and then right back into another fiberglass cast for another 2 weeks after which we repeat the process. Eventually, I'll get one of the softer, removeable boot casts but that will not be in the next three weeks at least.
So, of course, the pool will be done before I'm healed.
I also heard the story from their perspective. You see, while someone else called 911, I called the doctor's office. I said, "Hi, my name is Kirly and I'm a patient of Dr. B. I just broke my ankle. Please give me some advice." Yep, just as calm and cool as that. Of course, they all know me and so couldn't believe it was me and asked me who I was again! You can tell that I have great confidence in this doctor if I called him before I called anyone else. In fact, I wanted the paramedics to just put me in my car and I would drive over to the doctor's office. The break was so unstable the handsome men of the Phoenix Fire Department would hear none of that!
I also got the bad news that this break was so bad that I will be in this cast for a while. Next Thursday, 2 weeks after the breakage, they will remove the cast but only to see how the wound is healing and then right back into another fiberglass cast for another 2 weeks after which we repeat the process. Eventually, I'll get one of the softer, removeable boot casts but that will not be in the next three weeks at least.
So, of course, the pool will be done before I'm healed.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
I broke my leg / ankle!
You'll never believe this story....
First, I'm finally getting a pool. So, I told the pool company I'd make a decision about the color of one of the materials by Saturday. And, I've been working at home all week spraying down the shotcrete because you have to keep it wet. so, i decided to go ahead and run the errand to determine my color decision thursday afternoon about 1pm. well, by 1:30 pm I'd broken my ankle.
As I was leaving the business, I walked down a step that I had just walked up a few minutes before. Well, you know how you get that unexpected jolt when you step down something that is either taller or shorter than you expected? Well, it was sort of like that except my right leg went left, my right ankle rolled left, and my right foot went right. I fell to the ground on my behind without even dropping my purse or water bottle while hearing snapping, crunching, and popping. I looked over at my foot and it was at a 90 degree angle to my leg and I thought, that can't be right! So, I reached for my ankle, which was I noticed was also hurting, and noticed that the leg bones were poking against the skin pretty agressively. About this time I realized how much it hurt and that this must be the cause of it. So I instinctively grabbed my ankle and shoved the bones back in place. and held it there until the paramedics arrived. Now, I can honestly say that I never thought I'd ever say/write anything like that!
They insisted I go to the ER because they were unable to stabilze it so off I went in an ambulance. At the ER they ultimately sent me to the happy place of morphineland and they set the bones and casted me all the way above my knee so I couldn't even bend my leg. Boy, was that difficult to get around.
Friday morning I called my doctor and told them what happened. they said come right in so I did. As the doctor looked at the x-rays from the night before he said, "wow. ......... WOW!". Then he started asking me if I'd eaten that morning or had anything to drink and we determined he could do the surgery that very afternoon. Which he did but which took far longer than he expected because when he got in there he saw even more bone damage. Nothing else though so that's good. He said it was the worst ankle break he'd ever seen since he was assisting way back when. WOW! Oh, it was broken at the bottom of both the leg bones.
The doc said I can't put any weight on it for at least 5 weeks. Yikes! Maybe longer.
Almost forgot this part. I had already pulled a muscle in my left calf a few weeks before so you can imagine that using crutches was a rather difficult thing. So, the doc told me about this thing called a wheel about. It is sort of like a walker but only about 1/3 as wide. And it has a place to rest the knee of your injured ankle. And you use your other foot like you would on a skateboard! I've been zooming around the house ever since I got it yesterday!
Anyway, long story short, I'm broken and I'm getting a pool which will probably end up being ready to use before I am ready to use it. haha
I've added some pix to http://www.kirly.photosite.com/ of the pool construction, of me, and of NZ. Soon I'll also add a picture of my lovely purple cast!
Update: Photos of my lovely purple cast and the Roll-a-bout are now on http://www.kirly.photosite.com.
Kirly
First, I'm finally getting a pool. So, I told the pool company I'd make a decision about the color of one of the materials by Saturday. And, I've been working at home all week spraying down the shotcrete because you have to keep it wet. so, i decided to go ahead and run the errand to determine my color decision thursday afternoon about 1pm. well, by 1:30 pm I'd broken my ankle.
As I was leaving the business, I walked down a step that I had just walked up a few minutes before. Well, you know how you get that unexpected jolt when you step down something that is either taller or shorter than you expected? Well, it was sort of like that except my right leg went left, my right ankle rolled left, and my right foot went right. I fell to the ground on my behind without even dropping my purse or water bottle while hearing snapping, crunching, and popping. I looked over at my foot and it was at a 90 degree angle to my leg and I thought, that can't be right! So, I reached for my ankle, which was I noticed was also hurting, and noticed that the leg bones were poking against the skin pretty agressively. About this time I realized how much it hurt and that this must be the cause of it. So I instinctively grabbed my ankle and shoved the bones back in place. and held it there until the paramedics arrived. Now, I can honestly say that I never thought I'd ever say/write anything like that!
They insisted I go to the ER because they were unable to stabilze it so off I went in an ambulance. At the ER they ultimately sent me to the happy place of morphineland and they set the bones and casted me all the way above my knee so I couldn't even bend my leg. Boy, was that difficult to get around.
Friday morning I called my doctor and told them what happened. they said come right in so I did. As the doctor looked at the x-rays from the night before he said, "wow. ......... WOW!". Then he started asking me if I'd eaten that morning or had anything to drink and we determined he could do the surgery that very afternoon. Which he did but which took far longer than he expected because when he got in there he saw even more bone damage. Nothing else though so that's good. He said it was the worst ankle break he'd ever seen since he was assisting way back when. WOW! Oh, it was broken at the bottom of both the leg bones.
The doc said I can't put any weight on it for at least 5 weeks. Yikes! Maybe longer.
Almost forgot this part. I had already pulled a muscle in my left calf a few weeks before so you can imagine that using crutches was a rather difficult thing. So, the doc told me about this thing called a wheel about. It is sort of like a walker but only about 1/3 as wide. And it has a place to rest the knee of your injured ankle. And you use your other foot like you would on a skateboard! I've been zooming around the house ever since I got it yesterday!
Anyway, long story short, I'm broken and I'm getting a pool which will probably end up being ready to use before I am ready to use it. haha
I've added some pix to http://www.kirly.photosite.com/ of the pool construction, of me, and of NZ. Soon I'll also add a picture of my lovely purple cast!
Update: Photos of my lovely purple cast and the Roll-a-bout are now on http://www.kirly.photosite.com.
Kirly
Saturday, March 03, 2007
AZ 911 Commission to change memorial
From the Arizona Republic of Friday, March 2, 2007 which can be found here (but only temporarily) and which I've quoted below.
However, the only change known at this time is the removal of a blatantly false accusation against the US Air Force ...
However, notice that they don't accept that the accusation is false. This in spite of meeting, at the December 2006 AZ 911 Memorial Commission meeting, the Air Force Officer who was in command of the investigation which concluded those killed were Taliban.
I wonder if they'll do more than remove the words "erroneous" and "civilians".
No, they're going to add "introductory panels" to "explain" the abomination to us knuckledraggers since we were all too stupid to figure it out on our own.
Well, don't think that I won't be here to report it all. Just because it's been quiet does NOT mean it's over.
However, the only change known at this time is the removal of a blatantly false accusation against the US Air Force ...
07 01 02 ERRONEOUS US AIR STRIKE KILLS 46 URUZGAN CIVILIANS
However, notice that they don't accept that the accusation is false. This in spite of meeting, at the December 2006 AZ 911 Memorial Commission meeting, the Air Force Officer who was in command of the investigation which concluded those killed were Taliban.
I wonder if they'll do more than remove the words "erroneous" and "civilians".
No, they're going to add "introductory panels" to "explain" the abomination to us knuckledraggers since we were all too stupid to figure it out on our own.
Well, don't think that I won't be here to report it all. Just because it's been quiet does NOT mean it's over.
Sept. 11 commission votes to change state memorial
Associated Press
Mar. 2, 2007 12:00 AM
Reacting to criticism of the state's Sept. 11 memorial, a state commission decided Thursday to add introductory panels to explain the terrorist attacks and the memorial itself. It also began a review that could see at least one controversial inscription removed while others are retained.
The governor's memorial commission voted unanimously Thursday to remove an inscription regarding an "erroneous" U.S. airstrike that purportedly killed 46 Afghan civilians.
Commission members said circumstances of the U.S. airstrike are still in question. Some said the inscription prompted criticism that it impugned the United States and its military.
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