A Purchase

The plan had been that I'd spend much of today resting my knee and not putting a strain on the incision from which the stitches had just been removed.  I'd thought to wash my  hair at most and read and rest on this gloomy, rainy, cold day.  That's not the way it turned out.

Stan and I were up and out the door at 9:15 after, may I add, the first moderately good night's sleep I've had in the past two weeks!  Anyway, we left and drove to the nearby Ford dealership for an appointment with Randy, the guy who sold us our past three cars.  I'd been emailing back and forth with him the past few days about the availability of Ford Flexes.  He had found three that met our criteria and we had narrowed it down to one of them.  Once we arrived, we spent the next couple of hours in his office negotiating and, at the end of it all, we were the proud new owners of a metallic blue Ford Flex.  It's currently in another state and will be delivered here in a couple of days, but we signed everything, it's ours, so even though I won't be able to drive for another few weeks, whoopee!!  I have a new car!  Stan will continue to drive his Fords (an Escape and an old Crown Vic), but the Flex will be mine.

After such an exciting morning, we had a quiet few hours.  We ate lunch, read, dozed.  Stan went to pick up the granddaughters, and I entertained younger son who came home after a stressful day of work, having wrapped up a multi-month project.  Sometimes even grown up kids just need to sit quietly and have a soda and eat some chips with mom!

Sitting in a hard little chair for so long this morning wasn't great for my knee, but I did get up and walk around every twenty or thirty minutes, so I survived.  After a few hours with my knee elevated,  I'm fine.  You have no idea how getting some quality sleep last night helped!  Tomorrow is PT and I will have to apologize for not having done my exercises today, but that was deliberate.  I truly thought it was for the best not to put any stress on my kneecap and the incision site which is now just out there on its own.  The last thing I want is to pull anything apart!  So, I'll apologize tomorrow to my therapist and get back to work!

Here's hoping for another good night's sleep!