At the Crossroads in Everyday Ramblings

This is the crossroads at the top of the trail where we turned around on our bike ride on Tuesday.

On the ride I was trying to estimate based on how I was feeling how much further I could go and a little while before this Most Honorable had called out, “Two minutes!” and I was yeah I can do two minutes. I can. It is only two minutes.

And I did make it as you can see.

This was much on my mind as I was experiencing my dental surgery yesterday. If I can push through for two minutes on the bike I can get through two more minutes of this…ummm…sensation.

The whole thing took about 2 ½ hours. We did have to stop at one point to (how do you say?) enhance the numbness, as what I was feeling was beyond pressure and sensation.

Everything went well. And it is over. I’ll have another small procedure in December with a few stitches but the remodeling is done done done done!

It was about 102 (39C) when I finished and we went out in it (me with an ice pack on my face) to walk a few blocks to the connected outpatient pharmacy afterwards. Although it was a record, it wasn’t as high as they had expected but sadly only because the air quality was so bad from the wildfires that it kept us a few degrees cooler.

We dropped off the prescriptions (steroids and pain medicine to go with the antiseptic rinse and antibiotics), walked back to the car (Kes had come up to the clinic to wait in the air conditioning after the surgery started) and Kes drove me home and then went back and got the medicine.

My surgeon wanted me to take a big dose of steroids last night to help with what was going to be some pretty spectacular swelling.

Then we did ice pack shifts for the next five hours. The net result of this is that you can barely tell how extensive the work I had done was.

Except for the fact that I am really tired.

It has been an extremely lazy day. We did go grocery shopping, that was the extent of my ambition and Kes went home midday.

Tomorrow my big ambition is to get to the farmer’s market for fresh tomatoes and Sunday to go to church.

No Fitbit challenges for this woman in the next few days!

I have a lot of stitches, some of them re-absorbable and some not. Eating solid food will be a surmountable challenge if I am very very careful.

Have I mentioned that it is over? Done, Fini, end of story, all downhill the whole way home?

Other then saving for a new bike and hearing aides I now want to plan a trip away someplace engaging and fascinating and for at least a full week. No teaching, no work, no wild and crazy cat boys. I love the cats and love being with them but a break would be healthy for us all.

It is only 95 (35C) out there now but the wind hasn’t come up yet. Tomorrow should be better. At least here where it is not burning.

As I was telling Kes before she left to go home…I am very relaxed…from the neck down.

I am so glad this work is drawing to a close. Wow.