Sandy Andina

Mon. 7/2--wound care nurse expresses his own concern as to swelling, redness and warmth of knee. Consults head nurse who agrees. Bobby has no luck reaching the internist.  Meanwhile, trying not to worry and using the cane, I manage a full flight of stairs up to the 3rd floor and back. Laura applies some cris-cross strips of compression tape--hot pink--to assist with reducing the edema.  While I'm in the middle of PT (having done 18 min at 40% resistance on the recumbent elliptical trainer, getting 100…

**I HATE THIS BLOG EDITOR and WEBSITE SECURITY!  I spent three hours each last night (7/11) and today updating it day-by-day, with progress notes, comments and milestones, through the end of 7/1. I hit "Publish" and am taken instead to the stupid log-in page. I log in, go back to my blog.......and find I've lost EVERYTHING I've written for 6/27 through 7/1!!!! It saved NOTHING. So every time I write anything I'd better save it as a draft lest the auto-login protocol eat it up again. (Wondered what that…

Mon. 6/25 

We pull up to the Imperial, and from the outside I can tell it's expanded since I used to go to Lake Shore A.C. next door. I notice that kitty-corner from it on Fullerton is Charlie Trotter's To Go--I immediately plot to have something smuggled in for our upcoming 41st anniversary Wednesday.  I am assigned to the Grove Pavilion, which is subacute and rehab care (i.e., no permanent residents). I notice a library, a salon/barber, and a "bistro" (which turns out to be the dining room for long-term…

Sat. 6/23

Night melts into day with Bobby at my bedside--he arrived late last. night--and a rather insipid breakfast: since I did okay on ice chips last night, I get two jellos and an apple juice. No sooner do I wolf this down and wash up when the PT arrives to put me through my first paces: booties removed, immobilizer applied, and I am sat up to writhe into my shorts, tee and over-large New Balance gym shoes. I am provided with an arsenal of tools to help me lift my leg off the bed and wince into my…

Friday, 6/22/12

Today's the day! (Was supposed to have been ten days ago, but my surgeon had to take an urgent trip).  NPO since 10 pm last night (when I finished the leftovers of Wed. night's Ruth's Chris steak and the last spinach I'll be eating until I'm off the blood thinners I'll be taking as soon as surgery's over), and already thirsty. Pre-op call is 10:30.  Off comes ALL my jewelry--rings (ouch), earrings, pendant. Will be bringing a wristwatch just in case I can't see the wall clock in my room…

Oh, great. Just as I got used to writing "2011" on all my checks, now it's 2012.  Good thing I am writing less of them these days (thank you, PayPal and automatic payment plans).   So I was thinking--what resolutions am I going to make this year? Lose weight? Exercise more? Spend less, write more, yada yada yada.  Sounds like a carbon copy (uh, does anyone make carbon copies any more?) of the last 5 or 10 years' lists.  I could  resolve not to make any more resolutions, but I seem to recall doing that…

Okay, there really isn't "videotape." I mentioned it so the title would scan.  But there are plenty of lies being blithely spread these days about taxes, spending, debt and deficits. And the way what passes for political discourse works these days is that he who repeats the most lies often enough gets the most people to believe them and takes all the marbles.....even though his words might indicate that he's lost all his months ago.

Am I the only one around here who seems to notice that the GOP…

Wine Geek glassware experiment

Had some time on my hands, and admitted to myself that I (mea culpa) occasionally drop some coin on extremely discretionary stuff. One of my hobbies is wine, and over the years we've been married (40 is a lotta years!) I have accumulated a motley collection of stemware: some from my student days or the surviving remnants of closeout outlet sales; others as souvenirs of one winery tasting room, event or another; as gifts; included in a wine-bottle package; and, over the past…

Yes, you read correctly: "early morning." I am actually awake early in the morning. Of course, that is because I tried to get to sleep late at night without success. Part of the reason is, of course, that I woke up yesterday at the crack of noon. But it is due mostly to unexpressed thoughts tumbling around in my brain. They were unexpressed because first of all, they don't quite fit in the "News/Journal" section of this website (HostBaby having added a "Blog" to "News/Journal" at first elated, then…

I have decided, for my part, to keep my rhetoric civil. "Civility," by the definition of the misinformed extremists who caused the "Civility Project" (GOP-founded, whose "civility promise" was signed by only four brave persons: two Republicans, one Independent, and one Democrat--who, unfortunately, currently lies in an ICU unable to express her civility) to close up shop, consists of weasel-words by we liberal wusses and morons who don't believe our tyrranical government is about to take all our liberties…