An undate of activities and status report on the arm

We had been asked to care for our middle grand daughter yesterday while her mother worked. Aurora arrived around 1:00 pm and was here until around 6:30. This is the one that is very independent and likes to do her own thing. She has a pretty good imagination and usually can entertain herself very well. Here she is working a jigsaw puzzle with Grandma.

Not very long before Aurora left the youngest grand daughter, Cadence, showed up along with her mother and dad. (The dad is also Aurora's dad but he does not make an effort to spend near enough time with her.) Anyway, the dad, who is my youngest son Alan, was trying to help me get a router working on my computer so they were here until around 8:30. (By the way, we never did get the router to work so today I purchased a new one. Can't make it work right either.) Cadence is always very shy when she first gets here. We don't see nearly as much of her as we do the two older girls. By the time they left she was having a big time and was very comfortable here. We love our little girls but they wear us old folks out pretty quickly. This is Cadence, who will be two years old next month with her dad.

Having the girls here was fun but was kind of hard to interact with them with just one arm. I did have to have surgery on the left elbow this past Wednesday. They originally expected the need to put a metal plate in to force the bone back in place but that did not happen. I did have a bone chip that was loose and causing trouble so they did take that out. The doctor originally told me he would be making a one inch incision. When I took the bandages off to shower the thing looked huge. I measured it and it is three inches long. I'll go back this next week or so to get the stitches out and then will have to start doing some exercises to get it working correctly again. Got to get this all working before the first week of March when we plan to get back on the road.