- Smokey continues to improve. Very, very slowly.
- He googled "L5 fusion recovery" and found a site/BBS with posts from people with his same surgey and with recoveries that lasted weeks or months and who suffered from pain that he doesn't have.
- He now reminds himself how much worse it could be.
- Still, it will be a long, slow recovery.
- Boring.
- It has been ungodly hot and humid here.
- 88˚ in the house.
- Blech.
- Those of you who live where hot and humid summers are the norm and are thinking "Wimp!", imagine that you had 4 - 6 weeks in the winter where the warmest it got was -10˚F.
- That is a rough equivalent of what this summer has been for us Northern types.
- Happily, the bedroom is air-conditioned.
- Sadly, the drain holes on the window air conditioner were plugged.
- I have used a handheld wet vac on the floor next to Smokey's bed twice.
- Unplugged the drain holes yesterday.
- Set up two fans to dry out the carpet.
- Keeping fingers crossed.
- A miracle occurred sometime while I was sleeping last night.
- When I came out of the bedroom this morning, the house was comfortable.
- A mere 80˚.
- I opened the window in the bedroom and pulled back the curtains.
- Smokey said the sunlight and fresh air were a boost to his spirits.
- He generally prefers our bedroom to be more of a cave -- dark and cool.
- Even dark and cool can get boring.
- Bald eagle just flew over the yard.
- Life could be a lot worse.
Blogger note: I wrote this yesterday afternoon but just as I tried to preview and publish it, my mouse stopped working. For the umpteenth -- well, third -- time in as many days. Did you know that without a mouse you cannot do ANYTHING? I tried to publish it from my iPad, but hitting "Publish" there did nothing. (Why not, Typepad? When are you going to put out a mobile blogging app, huh?) My googling for solutions came to naught. Then I mentioned my problem in a comment on Erika's blog, and BINGO! she sent me a link to a troubleshooting page, from whence I fixed the problem! Her google-fu is clearly superior to mine. Thanks again, Erika!)
