Today is nine
weeks since my wrist repair surgery, and I am seeing some improvement with
motion in my injured wrist. I still have swelling and a good amount of
flexibility and strength to recover, but I am getting better slowly but
surely. I have PT every week and see the doctor every three weeks
now. My Physical Terrorist Therapist is named Melissa (the
Merciless). She’s a little slip of a woman about the size of my
13-year-old, Jemmie, but she knows how to hurt a grown man. I know it’s
all for my good, but it’s still not fun.
In other
news, we went to Krista’s Mom’s family (Rhodes) reunion on 7/4 like we do every
year, and then went to her sister, Conny’s, to enjoy their pool. Our
weather here has been very hot and dry. We haven’t needed to mow in
weeks. We did get some rain today, so maybe we’re turning a corner in
that area.
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| Hazel and Ella on the carousel at the park where we had the reunion |
I remembered
my brother, Gary’s, last of his 50-something birthdays on 7/10.
The next day,
July 11, was the big excitement of this month, when Ivory Joy Sommer was born
at 4:03PM. She weighed 7 lbs, 10 ozs and was 20 inches long. She
was in a bit of a hurry, and, although Ella and Cody had planned a home birth,
she hurried right out and was born 5-10 minutes before the midwives could get
there. Cody handled everything wonderfully though, and Krista was glad to be there for all the excitement. Baby and
mommy are doing very well.
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| Hazel loves her little sister! |
July 11 – 15
was our church’s evening VBS. We only have one child, Levi, that is still
VBS age, but Jem and Zach went too as helpers. Jem helped with music, and
Zach with sound. Jem had to miss three days, however, because we’ve had a
stomach bug going through our family that laid her low halfway through the
week. Not all of us have gotten it yet and hopefully some of us will be
spared.
Hannah and
Kevin celebrated their 3rd anniversary on 7/13 by working opposite shifts and
not seeing each other all day. Such is the life of nurses in grad
school. Actually, Kevin and Alma took supper to Hannah at work, so they
did see each other briefly. And the weekend before, they took a trip to
New York City to see a Garth Brooks concert at Yankee Stadium.
Abigail watched Alma for them. Other than a little trouble with subways
not doing their scheduled routes they had a fantastic time, in spite of some
trouble finding their car for the ride home.
Last Saturday
Zach and I went and helped man a booth for Civil Air Patrol at the Genesee
County Fair. I hadn’t been to a county fair in years, and it was fun to
see the animals and activities. And yes, I did indulge in a couple of
greasy (AKA delicious) fair foods. It’s not reasonable to expect I wouldn’t.
I think
that’s it, so I’ll talk to you in August!
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| Alma and Hazel test driving a double stroller |
