((((Marcia)))) ~ Thanks for the update. Do keep off your foot and keep it elevated so the healing will happen quicker. How long do they say before you can be up and around?

Take care ~ FlowerLady

I know everyone has missed you! Glad to hear you have no pain, that's great! Just take care of yourself and in no time you'll be back helping to identify all the bugs.

((Hugs))

Marcia

so glad all is going well as could be with your foot. Take good care of yourself and yes, you are missed .

Evelyn

Marcia - Glad to hear from you. The forum is a little empty without you :)

Marcia-happy to hear from you girl. I hear you about the blisters, was getting some from my walker before I pitched it and went for the cane. Let me know when you are ready to crash some weddings and Polka-Polka-Polka!!

I hope you have a quick recovery. :o)

Marcia,so glad to hear that everything went well and you are on the road to recovery. May your healing process go quickly for you. Big Hugs, my friend.

As a fellow foot-pain sufferer.... you are mighty brave to go thru surgery.

I hope everything goes well and you'll be up rockin and a rollin in the
garden at the first sign of Florida's fall !

Glad to hear you're putting your "better footies forward" (smirk). Heal up and you know the garden awaits you. I hope you feel better soon.
TampaArt

Hi Marcia!

Tomorrow at work, I'll ask some Physical Therapists if they have any recommendations about your blistered palms from using the walker, and will post any worthy recommendations on this thread.

Wishing you a speedy recovery, take care,

Marilyn

P.S. Had to turn the hose on my dumb dog tonight to get her to stop pulling a coral snake out of a hole. Once I got the wet dog back in the house, I checked on the snake and it was ok! My boyfriend asked for a shovel but he kindly relocated vs. killing the coral. I have a picture of him and the snake but I sort of promised to make him dinner ... so no uploads now, I gotta go get domestic, darn it!

Hi Marcia!

Glad to hear things went well and that you are not in pain (except your poor blistered hands!).

I broke my foot a few years ago and was on crutches for a while. I wrapped towels (and duct taped it) around the part where you put your hands to prevent blisters. It helped quite a bit. Maybe it will help you to do the same?

Good to hear from you and get well soon so you can get back to your coleous plantings.

Hi Marcia,

I'm so glad you're doing well and not in much pain. My bad, it's the black racers I have here. Here's hoping you'll be doing this soon!

Tom

Hiya, Everybody! Thanks so much for all the kind words. Oh, I can't wait to be dancing just like that bear, Tom! (Funny, I couldn't dance like that BEFORE my surgery...but who knows!?)

I saw my surgeon today, and he was very pleased! He said I can start taking tiny steps around the house with the special "shoe" on, as long as I elevate and ice as soon as I sit down. And not to overdo it. In a week, I'll get the stitches out, and then he'll decide how much more I can do. I have tried walking around a wee bit since we got home, and it is not too bad. YAY! I feel much less restricted, even if it is only a few steps here and there. And because I don't have to use the walker as much, I think my hands are going to be okay now. But if not, I will try padding it.

Cindee, I'll be happy to polka all over the place once this heals up. We'll have us a roarin' good time!

Tom, I was really hoping you had indigos, but hey, black racers are beautiful little guys in their own right, and they are good friends to us gardeners.

Marilyn, glad you were able to relocate the coral snake. I must say, as much as I love them, I would be horrified to see my dog pulling on one! So glad no one was hurt, including the snake.

Thanks again, you guys, for missing me and for sending me such nice get well messages.

Big Hugs to You All!
Marcia

Hi Marcia! Yes'm, you're most certainly missed when you're not around!! Glad you're in recovery and hope it's a fairly easy one for you. Cannot have you away from your shinannigans for very long, now, can we????

Marcia!

I don't pop in here as often as I would like, but did catch this post!

I'm so glad to hear you are doing better! Foot surgery is no fun, well actually NO surgery is fun! :-) But anyway, heal fast girly!

I guess this is the best time to have foot surgery...when it's hotter than b@lls outside. This way you'll be doing the Boot Scoot Boogie when cooler weather is here!

((((HUGS))))

Kathy

Marcia, so glad you are getting back in the groove. Good news on the tiny steps and hope you have a speedy recovery. I sure missed your postings. Like a lot of people here, I'm more of a lurker, but it still feels like family.

Giiny

Hi Marcia,
I haven't been on here much lately, so I didn't know about your surgery. Glad that you are doing well.
Lynne

Hi, All! Thanks again for checking on me. Yesterday, I managed to baby step my way to the patio and water all my container plants, but I paid for my adventures last night with a bit of pain. Today, I'm staying in my chair "on ice" mostly. Can't let myself be overeager and do more than I should at the beginning. I want NO set-backs. I HATE being an invalid!!

I may not get to check in again today, so you guys have fun, and have a great weekend!

Big Hugs,
Marcia (ps...I have four more eastern swallowtails in chrysalises now...can't wait for the new eclosures.)

Marcia, the forum is just not the smae without you. You are a dynamo here and are sadly missed when absent. I am happy to here that your foot is doing better but KEEP OFF of it so that you can go nursery hopping and visiting once again. You are missed but we can survive as long as we know you are okay and healing. Linda

Hiya Marcia!

Glad to hear your pain is minimal. Wishing the speediest recovery!

take care,

Naomi

Here's what I'm picturing:
One dog on the sofa beside you, one curled up by your shoulder, big glass of iced tea, Phantom on the big screen, box of Kleenex within reach, foot on a pillow with a bag of ice. Maybe a book on the table close by for when the movie is over. How am I doing? Pretty accurate? And even with all that going on, you are thinking you should be checking those patio plants again or maybe wheeling out to check on the chrysalis. How close am I?
Big hugs,
Kate

KATE!!! Have you been peeking through my windows???? You are SO close! Actually, since I'm in the family room, rather than the living room, I'm in the Comfy Chair, with my iced foot up on the ottoman. And BOTH dogs insist on being on my lap, though Potter guards his spot with great zeal against any encroachment by Maks. And today, it will be whatever bits of the Olympics they are showing, rather than my Phantie-Boy. Kleenex still close by, as I wept copiously through the entire Opening Ceremonies last night, and am sure to do so again as I watch these wonderful athletes go through the thrill of victory and/or the agony of defeat in the days ahead.

And I HAVE struggled outside several times to water my seriously declining coleus, etc, from time to time. But it's pretty much hopeless. The yard has run totally amok with weeds and wilted, heat battered plants that will probably all need replacing when I can stay out there longer than five minutes. It didn't take long for all my hard work to be erased. Sad as that is, I can't let it get me down. I just have to concentrate on getting better FAST.

Yesterday was a bit tough, after my first day of trying to walk. I paid for it all day yesterday, and actually had to take a pill last night. Drat! I was doing so well on getting through it drug free. I'm a bit dopier than usual today (yes, it IS possible to be more dopey than I normally am), so I'm using Mark as much as I can to help me out.

Otherwise, things look good. Can't wait until Wednesday to get the stitches out and be able to shower without a ten minute plastic wrap process! But I'm not going to complain. I COULD be going through all of this stuff accompanied by excrutiating pain, and I'm not, so I'm HAPPY!

Hugs to Ya!
Marcia

...is that the "agony of da FEET"?

Oh sorry, I couldn't help myself. I suppose that's funnier if it isn't your feet.

Jim and I are Olympics addicts too. I get very emotional watching the opening and closing ceremonies. Poor Jim: this is the first summer games he hasn't worked at since the one before Atlanta. For Atlanta he was tech director for white water and field hockey, in Sydney he was tech director for beach volleyball at Bondi (yeah, I know) and in Athens he got to travel to several sites as a kind of general technical if-it's-broke-he's-the-guy-who-can-make-it-right person. That's why he was lucky enough to miss Hurricane Charley. I think it's killing him that he wasn't able to go this year. It seemed like the right choice right up until he was watching it last night - then it hit him what he was missing.

I didn't know Jim did stuff like that, Kate. How interesting! I'm an Olympics Junkie, which is odd because I hate sports! Seriously...you couldn't pay me to sit through a basketball/football/baseball game. And I don't watch those during the Olympics either, actually, but I do check to see if we are winning them. But I just can't get enough of the one on one type competitions...the racing, jumping, swimming, diving, dressage, etc...where you can watch one competitor work for his personal best and/or a medal. And of course, the gymnastics! LOVE those. In the winter, I love all the skiing events, sledding, etc, and of course, the ice skating. I'm passionate about all of that stuff for some really odd reason. I'll be glued to the set until it's all over and the torch goes out. Speaking of which, I was absolutely stunned by last night's ceremony. Never saw anything like it in my life!

I actually went outside today and sat at my patio table and potted up some stuff (Mark brought everything to me) and then took a break to ice my foot and read. Now I'm going to go see if any swimming events are coming up. LOVE those water babies!!!

Marcia (the agony of DA FEET??? Groooooan!!!)

Hi Marcia,
So glad to hear that everything went well with you.
I've been out of town and not online for quite awhile now.
Take good care of yourself and enjoy being waited on.
You deserve it!
All the best,
Sue.