Wow! You have so much going on! I'm really sorry all of this is happening at the same time.
But I am super glad the doctor thinks he can fix you, even if you won't be good as new. But new things are too expensive anyway. I'm certainly glad you'll be in much less (hopefully no) pain in the (hopefully not too distant) future!
I've also had times when a specialist told me I should have seen him sooner. Well, maybe if I hadn't been required to get a referral...
The surgery timing sounds pretty good with a 6-month recovery time. You'll be pushing it for NaNo, but I think you can do it. After all, I need my best cheerleader out there! In truth, you have a big impact on my success in NaNo, but I could probably do it without you if I had to. Most importantly, I want YOU to be okay -- happy, healthy, and pain-free! If that means you miss a year of NaNo, so be it. YOU are more important.
Norma, it's good you have your surgery scheduled. I think you'll feel so much better with pain relief. My husband had carpal tunnel surgery and he is happy that his fingers don't go numb anymore.
Elycia Lee ☮ Try cutting back your plants. Then try dusting them gently. They breathe through the surface of the leaves.
I found this on Google about rubber plants:
Water when the soil is almost completely dry. ...
Spray with a mister every few days, they like to keep their leaves moist.
Place in a bright room, but keep away from super sunny windows to avoid sunburn Between 15°C to 25°C is their optimum temperature.
I never overwater them, but I think I'm underwatering them. The leaves are curling. When I put them out, their leaves burn. When I wipe them, lines appear on them... I really wanna start over, but I don't know how to... My rubber plants bottom stem leaves have dropped. Only the top is growing. For one of them, their baby leaf hasn't been growing for over 6 months now... Sounds like you've got quite the green finger there.
QPdoll It was good to be out and work in the garden. We were both tired after, but that's okay. Digging in dirt always helps. There is always dirt in our lives. We have to dig up through it to get to the shining world on the other side.
Elycia Lee ☮ Well, if your rubber plants aren't doing well, try dusting them. Prune them. Don't overwater. I always am cutting back things. Makes people nuts. But sometimes you have to cut back the dead to to get to the living. A metaphor for lots of things in our lives.
I'm actually jealous that your fallback plan to stress-relief is gardening. Can you infect some to me? Currently, all I have is an iron plant and two rubber plants. My rubber plants are not doing well. Your job does sound interesting.
When you are old, what do you think children will ask you
to tell stories about?
I would hope children would ask about the time my husband and I went on an adventure in our RV. Perhaps we could tell them about all the jobs we had, all the places we saw, all the people we met, and how we landed in Montana.
I would also like to tell stories about our hiking adventures before and after we got our dog. Before dog, or B.D., we hiked a lot, some in Ohio, some on the Appalachian Trail, some in Yellowstone. But we did quite a bit in the national forests of Montana after we got our dog.
But perhaps I could tell of my childhood in Ohio. I grew up east of Cleveland in a small town. We led a pretty wild life, as I Iook back. Most children did back then compared to today. Running in the woods, playing all day unsupervised.
But I know a big story will be about the 2020 pandemic. Did people really wear masks all the time? Were the stores and schools really closed? How did you do that? What was it like? Did you ever get sick?
It will be interesting to observe what happens in the next year or two. We need to write down what happens to keep all this craziness fresh in our digital memory banks.
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