Paula had been complaining about her shoulder for the last couple of trips and she finally gave in and got the recommended rotator cuff surgery. She now has a weird sling contraption that she has to wear 24-7 and a torture chair that she calls “Sparky”. She straps her arm into it and the arm of the chair moves her arm up and down so many degrees for 3 hours a day. Worse part of the recovery is that she can’t drive for 6 weeks, so I have been attempting to get her out of the house between the scheduled ‘Sparky’ tortures. The rest of you reading this have to take over- don’t let her go ‘stir-crazy’.
Since Paula works for Georgia Virtual School she spends a large amount of her day emailing and on the computer. Because of this surgery she can’t type so she had the perfect excuse to buy the new Mac speech to type software program. The first couple of times she used it was rather entertaining. It was like a puzzle trying to figure out what she was trying to write. The first message that Harriet received, she called Paula immediately on the phone cause she was worried Paula had had a stroke. She has finally gotten much better using it.
Because of not being able to use her dominate hand she can’t clip or polish her nails so got me to drive her to get a manicure and pedicure. Since I was already there I decided to indulge and get my first pedicure ever and I am already hooked. Good luck on your recovery Paula! PS – Bob is being a great caregiver!
