Details of cartilage

John said I should quote the MRI report: " 1. Large compex tear involving the posterior horn and junction posterior horn and body of medial meniscus with significant articular cartilage degeneration medial compartment. 2. Severe articular cartilage degeneration of patellofemoral joints. 3. Apparent compartmental osteoarthritic changes. 4. Small joint effusion." He says it sounds a lot worse than it actually hurts ... but he will be relieved to have the pain go away, just the same.

Torn cartilage

Welll the MRI showed all sorts of rips and tears in the cartilage in John's right knee. Better news than ligament damage. They will go in arthroscopically with the tiny "PacMan" (remember him? The little yellow MandM-looking fellow that chomped up the other fellows on the Atari game?) to chew up and swallow all the damaged bits. Then all should be well. The procedure will be in-and-out the same day, on March 20th. Well, DUH! I should have said FEBRUARY 20th.!

Here's a picture -- NOT!

There is no picture, that is the problem! I keep uploading them but they never show up on my blog. That is sad for me, because it seems my entire persona is wrapped up in the visual. I am still taking pictures constantly, and enjoying that, but I really, really, liked the part of photography where I get to share them with you all. Our lives continue to be slow moving and gentle. John has been having some knee pain for the last several months, and is finally getting it checked out. Doctor's appointment, ultrasound, another doctor's appointment, and an MRI have happened so far. Next Tuesday he will find out if it actually torn ligaments or not, and what to do about it.

OK, so where is the picture?

Shirley is fine!

Our friend Shirley is home from the hospital (had surgery to remove a benign but large meningioma) and is feeling fine. Huge line of stitches, but they will be behind her hair line when it grows out again; only a small amount of bruising around one eye; and a sore tongue from the tubes. Her comment was: "I was so happy to realize I could still see out of both eyes, I could still think clearly, and best of all, I DIDN'T DIE!" Needless to say, she wouldn't let me take a photo ...

Karin with antlers

OK, here is another try. Of course, this photo is month or more old, but maybe I can get Blogger to take it this time.

I'm still trying

I keep doing all the "right things" to upload the photo (any photo; I've tried quite a few) but no luck.

Anyway, we are doing just fine. Gramma continues to do very well. She did finally take her new cane on her walk around the circle, and admitted it was a "good thing."

We are going out to eat tonight --Prime Rib special. Jim and Ann will join us there. We all plan to stuff ourselves -- after eating sparingly all week.

I'm trying to post a photo of Sid with reindeer antlers. But, I guess this new Blogger isn't going to cooperate yet again.

Yay! Here is a photo, using the new blog format. It looks grainy to me -- how about you, my faithful readers? This photo is especially important because Sheela is doing the sign language sign for my name ... "Grammylyn." Also, Sunil has just put his hand down, but he was twirling my hair while he sucked his thumb. Hard to resist that twirling thing!

Photos

I am trying to post photos. We are on dial up here and that may be the problem. I will keep trying. The ones I'm working with are already a month old, but I do want to share them!

Florida

Well, at last I actually got on to my own blog. I'l admit, though, that I usually read everyone else's, then try once on my own. I give up pretty easily. We are enjoying the heat wave that is all across the eastern half of the US. Many records are being broken for warm January weather. Here it has been in the mid 80-'s since we arrived. Perfect. Since Florida seems like it ought to be hot anyway, we usually feel a little cheated when we get here and have to face the cooler temps that are normal for winter. This is great.