Hi, Rosalie, and group,

"Rosalie B." wrote in message
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"Skip Gundlach"
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wrote:

Life is what happens when you're making other plans...

Most of you know that Lydia and I have bought our boat and expect to get
aboard and cut the cords. Target departure date is November 1, with a
variety of things to happen first, including getting a couple of houses
(emptied and) sold. Progress is happening at an acceptable pace, there,
but
just as Lydia was fixated on getting the boat bought, she's now fixated
on
getting aboard, *NOW!*. I, too, want to get aboard, but deal with
frustration a bit better than she :{))

clip...

My husband fell off/onto a ladder and broke his humerus at the
shoulder joint and his elbow (on the two runs of the ladder). He

OW!!!

drove himself to the hospital (because I was in KY and our son was on
14) and they said he might never have full use of his arm/shoulder or
ever be able to raise his arm above shoulder level again. However -
they took him up to Bethesda (USN ret) and put a cast on it and then
he had about a year of physical therapy and now he has full use of the
shoulder. He's still in touch with his physical therapist (who was a
Navy Corpsman at the time).

Cool. Good to have competent help. I believe I did *not* get that the
first time around - I was part of a public hospital system with mostly
charity patients, and wasn't happy at the time with any of the experience.
I believe I had competent care and surgery - but I also believe the followup
should have caught this, and for that, I was very poorly served. In any
event, I've (now) got the best shoulder surgeon available, from all I can
discern, so I'm confident we're giving it our best shot at this time.
Unfortunately, that best shot is only a crapshoot, with a 50-50 likelihood
of success. Fortunately, it can't be made worse...

I think Lydia ought to chill and consider your health first.

Well, the health (with the possible exception of the mental part) will be
well taken care of. However, she's not the least bit interested in (well,
let me rephrase that: adamantly opposed to) any delay whatsoever. And,
aside from my ability to do, physically, more to get us out of town, now,
waiting will only make things later. We'll not be able to go on our
preferred schedule, as rehab won't be to the point where I could leave any
sooner than January or so, at best, if we go on the current schedule
(surgery 15Jun), as it is. So, I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet
and hire the help rather than do it myself. One way or the other, whenever
we are able, however, we'll get aboard. It will just have to be later and
more expensive (but then, what, in boating, isn't??).

L8R (in spades!)

Skip


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clear night, and gaze at the countless stars overhead, and realize
that you are quite alone on a great, wide sea, it is apt to occur to
you that in the general scheme of things you are merely an
insignificant speck on the surface of the ocean; and are not nearly
so important or as self-sufficient as you thought you were. Which is
an exceedingly wholesome thought, and one that may effect a
permanent change in your deportment that will be greatly appreciated
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