Weekend Away and....Walking!!

A few posts ago I hinted that Brandy arranged a girls' weekend away for me and two friends. He called my friend Juliann to arrange it (we stayed at her sister's cabin, thanks so much Jen!), and also talked with my friend Stacy to see if she could go. Then he just asked me, are you free on this and this day? I've got the kids covered. Wow, what a man I have!! We had a great time.Juliann thought we'd have to ask the neighbor to light a fire for us. Nah...firebug Carey to the rescue! I think I was quite the sight scooting around on my bum starting a bonfire. *smile*
Juliann was a great boat driver, and I was great and sitting and relaxing! It's quite a different experience to boat without kids. So relaxing. It was quite the challenge to get me in and out of the boat, however. Juliann prayed out loud every time! I think she was concerned I would end up in the lake. But, no worries, I made it.

On Facebook, Juliann wrote "advanced crutching" with this pic. The dock was slats, so I had to be quite careful where to put my crutches so they didn't slide through...or I would have been in the lake. But NOW!!! Yeah!!!! Today I got the go ahead to start walking in my boot!!! Hip hip hooray!!!! And the doc said in about 2 weeks I can even put on a shoe. A real shoe...can you imagine?

I've been going from walking, to crutches, to my scooter today. Walking isn't easy at this point. My ankle/leg isn't used to the pressure and it hurts a bit. My left calf is about 1 inch small than my right. It's amazing the muscle tone you can lose in 11 weeks. But I'm happy to say that already tonight it's better than this morning. Before you know it I'll be dancin'. *smile*