It is early and Nancy is still sleeping.\u00a0 This week\u2019s first three days have gone well.\u00a0 At PT on Tuesday she worked hard and has sore muscles to show for it.\u00a0 Her heart rate and blood pressure behaved properly and have remained so.\u00a0 We have remained active by walking inside buildings such as the grocery store and others.\u00a0 Outside \u2013 not so much.\u00a0 Literally, the weather is frightful.\u00a0 Just west of us, in the Cascade Mountains, a major snow storm is adding to the snow (aka \u2013 late season irrigation water for Yakima Valley fruit growers).\u00a0 Here the little snow we are getting is going sideways \u2013 headed to Idaho, I think.\u00a0 The sustained wind is in the mid-30s and gusts are expected as high as 50 mph.\u00a0 Today is a music play-day for Nancy and friends so she will be active (upper body) and happy. \u00a0The new Physical Therapy place and Medicare came up with a 4-wheeled walker on day one.\u00a0 She can walk nicely without holding on to it but it provides a seat for an occasional rest.\u00a0 We returned the borrowed one and thereby made a return visit to the folks that got her off her back, out of bed, and mobile \u2013 they are now an important part of our memories.<\/p>\n
We dropped our horse-trailer-pulling truck off yesterday so she had to drive, and will again, when we pick it up today.\u00a0 \u00a0Following open heart surgery one is warned not to do things that might stretch or pull on the stitches, such as whipping the steering wheel around and sliding through a hairpin turn.\u00a0 However, because she was very ill in addition to the operation, by the time she could walk and move around those potential post-operative issues no longer were issues.\u00a0 So my concern about her being alone while driving was more about the possibility of the car quitting.\u00a0 She is good about taking her cell phone along, so there is less concern about this sort of thing than there once was.\u00a0 Still, new and nearly new autos we have owned in the past have mysteriously stopped in the middle of nowhere and such are not fun to deal with even when there are no other worries.\u00a0 (With a life involving field trailing, horses, and expanding our geographic knowledge and photo collections, we frequently have found ourselves in the middle of nowhere<\/em>.)<\/p>\n The deli at our favorite grocery store makes a good chicken salad.\u00a0 For Nancy they are now providing some with slight adjustments, namely they hold out onion and green peppers, package a pound for her, and then they continue with their makings.\u00a0 At home I add hard boiled egg and a bit of shredded cheddar.\u00a0 Okay, it\u2019s not as good as a grilled steak but it\u2019s not too bad, and most importantly Nancy eats it.\u00a0 Is it too soon to claim this eating issue solved?<\/p>\n An interesting take on \u201cknocking on wood<\/em>\u201d:<\/p>\n http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive-free\/pdf?_r=1&res=9801E2DD1E39E633A25756C1A9649C946596D6CF<\/a><\/p>\n And for expressions around the world:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knocking_on_wood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is early and Nancy is still sleeping.\u00a0 This week\u2019s first three days have gone well.\u00a0 At PT on Tuesday she worked hard and has sore muscles to show for it.\u00a0 Her heart rate and blood pressure behaved properly and have remained so.\u00a0 We have remained active by walking inside buildings such as the grocery … Continue reading “THURSDAY — \u201cknocking on wood\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-7J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}