Nather Family

My knee is healing better all the time. I have been without crutches for almost a month, I think, and out of the brace for probably 3 weeks now. Yeah, just about. Today I noticed I can go down stairs with almost no pain, though I still have to go slowly. My knee can bend much better. Even still, it aches a lot if it doesn't spend most of the day propped up. So under my desks at work I have to keep a prop. And tonight Nate lectured me that I need to go to PT after I complained that my knee keeps popping painfully. So bossy. ;-) I do NOT want to wear my brace anymore, but I think I could use a little additional support, so I've finally ordered a compression brace thing that I think will help me. But life is going well. I started working at Smith Morgan just before the sister's trip, so I guess a month ago. Tomorrow is Marie's LAST day, and knowing she was leaving with all her knowledge, I've been prioritizing being in the office there as many days as possible. Bu...

**** Written late August, not finished*** I've finally started feeling progress in the healing journey. Last Thursday Aug 22nd was the last night I felt really awful. I had felt well-ish that day so I thought I was up for a couple of things. 1) I used the crutches from the parking lot into the bank to open the needed account for our mortgage. The walk was exhausting. Not too long later Nate and I borrowed the Brewster's big white van and I hadn't considered the fact that there's a double step to climb in. Since I can't really hop up the narrow platform, and my ribs/chest area was way too tender for Nate to help lift me, it was kind of hard. I had to use my own upper body strength to pull myself up while twisting and not bumping the broken leg. I honestly don't even know how I accomplished it, it was so hard I must have blocked out the details, lol. We then drove to the Underwater Audio company party where the kids had graciously been driven in our b...