A Day to Recover

Saturday was the day that we celebrated our thirty-ninth anniversary, Mother's Day and Kathleen's birthday over at Andrea and John's. I did not do a lot Saturday morning as I wanted to be somewhat alert when we got together with the children and grandchildren. Even with that said by the time we left Andrea and John's I was really tired and my ankle was really throbbing.

Just about all of the grandchildren came over and sat by me on the couch; none of them stayed too long, because they were having too much fun playing with each other. I felt bad that I did not have the energy to do much else but sit around, but I needed to keep pretty quiet and rest my ankle so that I did not open up the wound.

Then Sunday I was really tired and not feeling very well so I decided to stay home; Kathleen could not get herself ready in time to go either so we both missed church and Sunday School. I had Kathleen call over to Aaron and Tami's to find out if there had been a decision by Pastor Tom to accept our accepting his candidacy and they told us that he had. I guess that he will start the first Sunday in August, so Pastor Mark our transition pastor will stay on until then.

Then today I felt pretty good when I got up so after a while I went outside and pruned off the old growth from the ferns; I did not get them all done, but I did fill up the forty gallon barrel. After I did that I mowed the lawn and by then I was too tired to do anything else so I went inside to make myself some lunch.

Kathleen came downstairs as I was starting to make my lunch and asked if I was up to going grocery shopping. I was really tired and so I told her that maybe after I had a chance to rest I might be able to go. I still was not feeling too great but I changed my clothes and got ready to go to Winco.

We had not been to Winco since March so it had been a while; after a couple hours wandering around Winco and over two hundred dollars we wrapped up our shopping. As I was loading the groceries into the cart I must have twisted and turned incorrectly as I felt a twinge in my back.

It still hurt as I unloaded the SUV and brought the groceries into the house, but after I changed my clothes and sat down and rested for a while my back started to feel better. I was still really tired and could hardly get up out of my chair for dinner, but other than feeling tired I felt pretty good.

I took the bandage off my cut and it looked pretty good, there was just a little blood on the bandage probably just from rubbing off the initial scab. I am going to leave it off tonight and see how it does, if it does not ooze I will probably leave it off.

I can see by how it looks now just how deep the wound originally was as there is now a deep grove just below my inside left ankle. I am hoping that when it is totally healed it will fill in; I am not sure weather stitches would have helped with that or not.