Farm Journal - 2025

[Hopalong]

An enormous YAY for Kay! Professionals like this make dealing with our aging bodies so much easier. Well trained, clear communicators, believers in informing and empowering us.

And particularly YAY for you, Amber. You're doing an amazing job of rational research and I'll go out on a well-focused limb to say again, I think you're going to be VERRRY happy with this change. And if I'm wrong I'll eat worms, promise.

More likely, when my turn comes I'm going to return to this post of yours for perspective. Thanks for sharing your process with us. And please be careful driving. Or better, maybe don't drive until afterward?

hugs
Hops

[sKePTiKal]

The new temp glasses are helping a lot with the blurriness Hops. I'll be able to drive, except when my eyes are dilated and immediately after the surgery. Info I got was 24 hrs immediately after surgery before I can drive. And that's a perfect opportunity for B to chivalralously "take care of me". Which I have no objections to. Done it for him, often enough. He'll probably cook that day too. Escort me, if I attempt to go up/down stairs - most likely quarantining me to the couch.

I will enjoy the extra mileage I'm getting from that reflex, while I can!  <wink wink> <giggle>

[Hopalong]

Ahhhh, yessssss.

Milk it for all it's worth, I say!
Let B earn his keep...not that he hasn't, in pain or out.

It's a nice thought though, you lolling on the couch while B waits on you hand and foot and Knuckles plays with your toes.

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Hops

[sKePTiKal]

He's been really sweet through all this. And a lot more caring than some other. He lets me babble all my thoughts; puts up with my frazzles and talks me down again. He knows.

Hol's been a bit too wrapped up in her own stuff to show up. She does care & offers to do things to spare me crap & tedious or heavy work. But she's holding down her own fort too. Is OK. Cody got back from a work/family trip so I haven't seen much of her the last couple days.

I know I probably won't have perfect vision after all this, without glasses - but I'll take what I can get. When I was still tiny, Gramma always asked me to thread her needles for her. I can still thread my sewing machine - but a lot of it depends on the color of the thread. High contrast is easier to see right now. And I did get 2/3's the way through assembling a new console for the front door entrance. Lighter - 'coz of some wild hair, I went with French Country!! But it's solid wood, which is unusual in flat pack furniture. A whole day spent on the floor, bent in weird positions that rival alien insane yoga. The temp glasses are pretty helpful.

Things are ok here. What are youse guys doing this autumn?

[Hopalong]

To-dos. Trying not to make a to-do of To-Dos.

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Hops