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Today's the Day

My knee surgery is scheduled for 10:30. Well, we have to be there at 10:30, so the actual surgery isn't probably until 11:30 - all that sign in and prep and whatever. I'm quite nervous, of course. What if they get it wrong? What if it doesn't take? What if I'm worse off after the surgery?

The usual.

I haven't been able to eat or drink anything since 2 am and I don't know how they expect me to take my thyroid meds without water. It won't kill me to delay them, and I suppose I can pop one when I get back from surgery and will invariable have to take a whole mess of pain killers and the like. But what's really driving me batty is that I'm not supposed to have anything on my skin. My skin is so dry - especially my hands and face - that I'm craving hand lotion more than I'm craving my morning cup of coffee.

A lot of Scadians have been very supportive of this - saying all the people they know who've been through it, or they have been through it - and I should be back on track in six months. Assuming, of course I do all the PT that supposed to do. Boggles my mind that people don't do the PT. I'm not just talking the homework they give you to do on a daily basis, but not show up to the appointments. I get its a hassle and probably even more of a headache for people with jobs because our American Work Culture does not support taking time off to heal and get better and the like. I'm scheduled out until Feb for PT appointments. I have no idea how that relates to me going back to work.

45 years ago...

It was actually just around midnight Eastern as the 8th turned to the 9th that we got the news. I'm not going to retype everything here, just post a link to what I wrote five years ago. Link to that post.

It all reverberates more on me right now, for convoluted reasons I can't go into at this time. But it's been on my mind for at least the last 12 hours, so I wanted to mention that here now.

Hail the Traveller.

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Contemplating Memoirs

Lately I've been thinking about starting a Scrivener file of memoirs. Not necessarily with specific plans to do anything with it, but just to organize some of the writing I've done that I think other people might be interested in.

One thing contributing to these thoughts is my "analyze the Best Related Work" category and looking at published memoirs, but it's not like I think I'm operating at that level.

I pulled up my Dreamwidth tag "personal history and philosophy" and laughed to see that the second most recent post under that tag was a similar rumination where I noted that I'd put together a spreadsheet of links to DW posts that I thought fall in the category of memoir-worthy. Well. So. That will make assembling the Scrivener file easier!

As I noted in that post, I have a lot of posts on writing philosophy and technique in my Alpennia blog that I'd need to identify separately, but that might be of more interest to people than random natterings.

What I don't know is whether that interest actually exists. I mean: *I* think I'm pretty darned good at a turn of phrase and interesting angle on things, but maybe I'm deluded? I'd like to think I write a lot of interesting things in this blog and in the Alpannia blog, but how can I tell unless people have interacted with me about them?

ETA: LOL, and of course, having followed up on that supposed "list of memoir-worthy blog posts" I can't for the life of me figure out where, or under what name, I saved it! Fortunately, I guess I can reconstruct it using the same process.