Getting some Time

I am at Melanie's in West Jordan for a week. The news on my shoulder injuries is: four weeks of physical therapy and 12 weeks of recovery. I have been in a severe depression because I'm so tired of everything hurting all the time. Melanie is doing my hair for me every day and just taking care of me. Yesterday I spent time with Theresa, who came to South Jordan to pick me up. We had good time together. Wednesday Natalie and Eric are coming to spend the day with me and Thursday Melanie and I plan to do a session in the Draper temple.
I also got bad news from my dad today which put me in another 'downer'. My cousin Ursula passed away Jan. 24th and now her sister's granddaughter died at birth. Her father held her for four hours until she died. My Aunt Erika has five grandchildren and this was the first little girl. I don't know how Aunt Erika can deal with loosing a daughter and a granddaughter in a three week period. I am, of course, also very sad for Marcel and his wife for their loss.
Come on antidepressants! I need you to kick in soon!
Thanks for all you are doing for me Melanie! I really need the pampering right now.

WONDERFUL SUPERSTITIONS

We have a family tradition, since we moved to Mesa 22 years ago, that we have winter and spring picnics at Lost Dutchman State park in the Superstition Mountains. There are nice ramadas and great hiking trails. We went last Sunday with Angie, Justin and the kids. With everyone's schedules, it seems we can't get together as often as we would like to. We had a great time. Justin, Warren, Riley and Carson hiked up to the bench; quite an achievement for the kids. I later had a little hike with Riley, Kai and Kam. We found a steel coyote, which thrilled the kids. I pointed out and named various natural desert features and plants, but Kam seemed to be most excited about each covered garbage can he found.
Sadly this will be one of our last Superstition trips because the park is due to close in June, due to lack of funds. If any of you would like to join us out there, we are available just about any time.

Riley, Kam and Kai find a 'coyote'.

Thursday dad went skiing to Sunrise all by himself for the second time in a couple of weeks. He wasn't able to find anyone to go with him, so he went anyway.

This is a quilt kit I bought about three years ago. I have finally started on it. This is my practice piece.
Some of you know I have had injured shoulders. I injured my right should on Dec. 20th. On Jan. 13th I fell in our garage on my way to the temple. I tore a tendon in my left shoulder and went to the ER. They put me in an immobilizer. I saw my ortho two weeks ago, had an MRI on the left shoulder and saw my ortho again today, after waiting for two weeks to see if it would get better, at the doctors recommendation. There is a 50% plus tear in the tendon and lots of arthritis. The inflamation in my left shoulder is so bad that no healing has been able to take place, so I had a VERY PAINFUL cortisone injection today and will have to wait another 2 weeks to see if I make significant progress. If not, I will have surgery. On Tuesday I will have an MRI on my right shoulder. I have decided to aggressively pursue the left shoulder first because it is much worse. Warren spent 10 days dressing, undressing and showering me because I couldn't use either arm or hardly sleep. I am doing enough better that I can take care of myself now, but it is still very painful. I really appreciate all Warren does for me. He still drives me everywhere because it is so painful to drive. Thanks to Angie too, for doing my hair for me several times. Most of the time it just looks awful because it's all I can do to just wash it. I can't raise my arms very high yet.
No worries though, I will prevail. Love to you all!