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30 May 2021

  Hi everybody!    It's a beautiful day here . . . today. We've had some nice days and some windy, cold days too. Our car is still in the shop, but it finally did for them what it has done for me, so at least now they know I'm not imagining it! They've done all they know to do, so now they're reaching out to the Toyota manufacturing people. Hopefully it won't be too much longer.    I'm slowly going back to working at the hospital, not sure when my new duties will begin, there is so much that has to happen between now and then. I guess we'll see. I do prefer working from home, but I enjoy working there too.     I'm in a knee brace again, but on my left leg this year. I got this message from the doctor's assistant after I had an MRI the other day. "Dr Eysser wanted me to let you know that you have a possible tiny horizontal tear of the medial meniscus. He would like to put you in a hinged knee brace for a bone contusion, grade 1 MCL sprain and...

2 May 2021

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Hi all,    Just a quick update on life here. Our car is acting up, it keeps dying at random times and then cycles through several alerts on the dashboard: check tire pressure, check vehicle stability, check brake system, check charging system. Most of the time it drives beautifully, but the sensors are making it think there's something wrong. We'll get it into the Toyota place in Rexburg on Wednesday.    For some time I have been trying to get the hospital marketing department to make a video for the hip and knee patients. It would save the pre-op nurse time and the patients would get more consistent education. So, a few weeks ago, one of the marketing guys called me to say they were making a film and needed a woman who could play a grandmother, struggling to keep up with her grandkids because of her bad knee. I thought that since I had been pestering them about the video that I'd better do my part, so I said, yes. The film maker emailed me the address in Idaho Falls...