VERY Early Morning

So, here I am up at 4:30 am with this hip. Whatever I did to it yesterday is really painful. I am used to pain when I lie on the hip but this is pain when I don’t lie on it. It is diminishing slightly because when I got up at 3:30, I took TWO naproxen sodiums {generic Aleve} and I know from past experience that this large a dosage blunts the pain considerably. But I can’t really take this stuff regularly because it is not good for my one kidney even though I DID take it with two large glasses of water. Anyway, I am feeling a little less pain now and possibly on the edge of going back to sleep soon.

For today:

• check on the Pasta per Due homework that la prof says she doesn’t have for me.
• if this hip lets me, continue on the never-ending job of getting this art/work room organized. It would go more quickly if I spent some time on it, but honestly, the clutter depresses me so much that I can only do about 15 minutes at a time. The only way I have found to get some of it done is to tackle a section at a time. I think the stuff-piled-behind-the-door section will get done today. I will be able to sit down to do this and with this hip the way it is, I have to sit down a lot.
• make yogurt. I can sit down in the kitchen because Fred has a stool there for when he cooks.

I have decided I am channelling my sister. She had a limp caused by the atrophy of muscles in her left leg. Like me, she was in constant pain but hers went on for many many years. Now, admittedly, I have had this pain many years but I have only been limping for a few weeks. When she had her first hip replacement, she was left with a limp because of the muscle atrophy. She did physical therapy but there comes a point where that stops working. She chose not to have a built-up shoe because, as she said, the limp bothered others more than it did her.It certainly didn’t stop her driving or doing anything she wanted or needed to. Unfortunately, she didn’t want to walk and she got heaver and heavier. {which is, of course, happening to me because I CAN’T walk. Bit as soon as I can. this weight is gone!} So, these days I am lurching around as she did.

 Another way I am channelling my sister is that I think I am starting a collection. I have never been a collector. My Auntie Babs always called collections "dust collectors" and although my sister and I spent an equal number of years in Babs’s house, the edict stuck for me and not for her. My sister had collections of dolls, china shoes, dolls’  houses and furniture, quilting supples, and above all, Mickey Mouse memorabilia! Oh, and I forgot the "hens on nests" pottery ware which was her first collection..

Me? I think I have started a small collection of tea-for-one pots and cups. I now have three!

QUOTATIONS FOR THIS MONTH: "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so."

Hamlet 2.2.255-256

“Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?” Jim Rohn (motivational speaker/philosopher)

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