This is a quotation from KARNAK in the Nonet section from ten years ago, but its message is pretty current for my situation today... except I'm no longer working, but slowly recovering from a third surgery on the same knee:
QUOTE (JustDaniel @ Nov 27 03, 20:04 )
Well, it looks like no one is even reading in here, but I don't know where else to leave this message for everyone....
This is for y'all:
My
Thanksgiving
Pendant’s For You
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Thanks
for your
~ attention ~
shared so freely
helping, critiquing.
I’ve been intermittent;
thus I’ve missed interaction
that is our craft’s very heart-beat.
I’ll yet make my pen dance for our fête.
oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
© Daniel J Ricketts 27 Nov 2003
giving thanks for dear online friends
I've truly missed all of you by not being able to offer critique while I've been trying to catch up with paperwork at my job. My slow reading and limited time just have made it impossible.
Total knee replacement next Wednesday morning. Hope I'm not away too long.
Love in Light, Daniel 8-)
I find this ironically appropriate to re-post, since I've just come out of the hospital and rehab to prevent another total replacement of the same knee that was replaced
TEN YEARS AGO next week. I had STAPH INFECTION in the same knee (having had a second 'revision' of the knee three years ago, replacing the bottom half of the joint, since it was moving inside the tibia), so it was carved open on the old scars and washed out with 9 liters of solution and stapled back up again. I was in rehab for six weeks receiving intravenous antibiotics every four hours for an hour. The side effect was non-existent 'blisters' I walked on with great pain on the bottom of my right foot and severe pain in the bottom of my Achilles tendon. Since I had a sudden spike in my liver enzymes, I could not take my arthritis medicine until last week. The previous replacement procedures had me up walking 'normally' in about six weeks. I'm only now able to walk a couple dozen yards without my walker. There is still pain in my right foot, but it is much lessened, and the swelling in my knee almost disappeared once I was able to start taking my Arthrotec last week.
I'm THANKFUL !!!
... and I do hope to be able to start offering critique again, now that I can sit comfortably enough to use the computer again!
delighting to share, Daniel