borgmama1of5 | Removing the month of June from my life...

I try to be a positive person...but the month of June kinda sucked.

First I fell--standing up from the kitchen chair, suddenly I was free-falling, tried to grab the wall, and landed hard on both arthritic knees. Laid there hollering 'Damn, damn, damn!' for 10 minutes (should have had my 3-year-old granddaughter cover her ears) until I could move and my daughter helped me up. Had to go to urgent care the next day for my left foot which was massively swollen and my right thumb which I jammed trying to catch the wall. Fortunately nothing broken, just hurt like hell for 10 days. Ironically I had just completed 6 weeks of physical therapy to improve my balance and my therapist had been very pleased with my progress...

Then I found out I have to have rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder. I hurt it throwing a ball back in March but my primary doctor dismissed it as just 'old age' type aches and pains. He finally agreed to give me a referral to an orthpedic specialist who asked 2 questions about my pain and said 'sounds like a rotator cuff tear.' Which the MRI verified. I really like this surgeon, though--he explained I could have the surgery now or wait a few years and have a complete shoulder replacement 'because you're only 68 which is too young to live in pain for 30 years.'

And then, last week I became one of the special 10% of people who get shingles even though they've been vaccinated. Based on coversations with other friends, I am lucky in that the vaccine meant I had a 'mild' case--instead of agonizing burning skin for 2 weeks I've only had a straight-pins-sticking-my-scalp/forehead feeling and it's definitely better after just a week. So I've been miserable but functional, not in serious pain.

Surgery won't happen till the end of August or beginning of September, so July better bring me lots of good things!