Deer watching from the house

Merry Christmas Eve Eve

Numb thumb

So this is my brace, which i'm grateful for because: 1- doc wanted to do a cast and I can remove this to bathe 2- i have a lot less shooting or burning pain

Seems that when I hurt it at the beginning of November I sprained it and broke a small little bone in my hand which is *bizarre* since MY super power is super strong bones. But I digress... I pressed on thinking it would get better and it didn't. It got worse. Like when I picked up an envelope (not kidding) and it damn near brought me to my knees in pain. Or when I went to pull my hair into a pony tail and just about cried. So to the PT I went for a few sessions. Stayed the same then got worse. Funny, once my thumb went numb I about lost my mind. You know that throbbing sensation right after your thumb gets slammed in a door or under a book or something? Yeah, well, a few days of that will about put you over the edge.

So on to another sports medicine dr who X-rays and does a few other tests and voilà! Hand out of commission.

So there it is. The story of my gimp hand and why I've not been emailing/blogging/texting/ much for the past couple months. As it turns out: you can opt-out of those activities. You cannot, however, opt-out of: diaper changes, bath time or general baby holding and picking-up. So I'll do what I can and hopefully when I go back in 6 weeks to the dr, it gas improved and I don't have to get that cast afterall.

Mind crossing your fingers for me?

Brain Teaser

As I was cleaning up tonight, I asked myself: Which of these items seems out of place?

Hot Mess

Me or the shorty?

 Photosession yesterday =disaster. Missed nap, refused bottle. Stoic, spacey, red-faced, non smiling Shorty. Poor little buddy. But Ashley is incredibly talented -easily the most gifted photographer I know or have met - so I'm sure she did something magical. 

Meanwhile, I talked the dr out of a cast today so instead have a massive brace that seemingly has my arm on lockdown. More to come on that. 

Typing (well, almost all tasks that involve hands and/or arms) is especially challenging and I've realized that while I write left handed- I do almost everything else right-handed. 

Happy hump day team! 

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Roots

My paperwhites are well on their way to a lovely post Christmas bloom! I feel like a kid all giddy each day when I see that they've grown some more.