Recovery and Sisters

There are a few things that you should not do while recovering from foot surgery. 

• Shovel wet, heavy snow.  Duh right?  It's wet and heavy and requires much pressure put on your foot.  Yet it seemed to really matter that I get the driveway shoveled before dark so that when we went to church the next day it would be ready to go.  Why didn't my sweet husband or kids do it?  My sweetheart has a bad back which was seizing up after shoveling three times that day already.  Archer was out sledding with friends and I did not want my younger ones out in the dwindling light shoveling really wet, heavy snow.
• Volunteering for things that require standing for long periods of time.  Especially soon after shoveling wet, heavy snow.  I just cannot say no when help is need.  When the help is needed with book fair, well sign me up!  Twice!  Just for good measure.  I do love book fair.  The second day I was able to sit a good chunk of it, so that was good.
• Do something that requires repeated trips up and down stairs, after shoveling wet, heavy snow and standing for long periods of time.  It hurts, a lot, and probably shouldn't be done.

Sounds like a no brainer right?  Not so much, unfortunately.  I think I have set myself back at least a month in my recovery, if not longer.  I will have to do better as I really need to not be in so much pain all the time.  I see my doctor again in a week and a half, so we will see how things stand at that point.  Fingers crossed!

In other news, my sisters and their kids are coming out for Spring Break!  We are all looking forward to that.  The kids are all really close in age, so really enjoy getting to spend some time with each other.  They have not seen each other since last summer and miss each other.  I miss my sisters too.  We are very different in many ways, but they are my sisters and I love them dearly.  It will be great to spend some time catching up with them and seeing my younger sister's cute baby belly.  So much fun in store!