as if I didn't know

I went to the surgeon this evening.  How cool is a surgeon that has evening hours???

He asked me what I was seeing him for, how it happened, how long has it been bothering me  .. you know, the blah blah blah stuff.  He gets me on the table.  NO NO, get your minds out of the gutter!  He asks how bad is it?  I say something light and silly like you read the MRI, you tell me.  He then says, well I don't examine MRI's, I examine patients.  Hmmphh, little stuffy.  I am the one in pain here, he looked perfectly health!  I can have a weak sense of humor!!

Anyway, after his PAIN MAKING motions with my left arm, after he said oh that's not good, after some pretty big tears of pain, after a hundred HUGE words, I was right.

SURGERY on my rotator cuff, something is catching in there and my shoulder isn't suppose to POP up like that. 

NO KIDDING???? 

So then, the cute little pregnant nurse comes in, hands me a package about the surgery and some exercise to do so my shoulder doesn't get any stiffer and then tells me it takes  about 4 - 6 weeks to get in!!!!

FOUR to SIX WEEKS????  
ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? 
DO YOU SEE the PAIN I am in???

I got on the waiting list.  Oh boy!  I still think it is cool that he has evening hours.  Don't you think? 

P.S.  I am going to post something FUN tomorrow; I need to get my mind off of the constant pain.  I promise it will be so much more cooler than a surgeon that is booked 4-6 weeks out and has evening hours! 

YakYakYak

Do you remember how cool learning was back in the day? They had these really cool pictures that went with a letter from the alphabet and the word of the picture listed as well. It was fun to learn, like when would you learn the letter "M" .....

Capital "M", small "m" and a marmot!

Marmots are generally large ground squirrels. Those most often referred to as marmots tend to live in mountainous areas such as the Alps, Eurasian steppes, Carpathians, and Pyrenees in Europe and northwestern Asia; the Rocky Mountains, Black Hills, the Cascades, and Sierra Nevada in North America; and the Deosai Plateau in Pakistan and Ladakh in India. The groundhog, however, is also properly called a marmot, while the similarly-sized but more social prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys.

Marmots typically live in burrows (often within rockpiles, particularly in the case of the Yellow-bellied Marmot), and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social, and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed.  Marmots mainly eat greens and many types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots and flowers.

And then there is the letter "Y" and we learn about the letter and another animal.  The Yak ....

Capital "Y", small "y" and the yak.

Yaks are herd animals. Wild yaks are among the largest bovids, with males standing about 6.6 to 7.2 ft tall at the shoulder and weighing up to 2,200 lbs and have a head and body length of 9.8 to 11 ft. The females weigh about one third of this and are about 30% smaller.  Both sexes have long shaggy hair to insulate them from the cold. Wild yaks can be brown or black. Domesticated ones can also be white. Both males and females have horns.  Yaks may live to more than twenty years.

Anyway, I was given these really cool learning "cards", the leftovers I am sure, but to my surprise, one, or should I say three, stood out for me!!!



And then there were three ...

I took the three cards, painted three 9 x 12 canvas boards and Mod Podge'd the three yaks.  It brought back a very familiar saying that my mother used on us (3) kids growing up.  Feeling a bit nostalgic, I could not pass up the fun in these particular cards. 

And so the story goes ..... all you do is .....

" YAK YAK YAK "