Graduated!

On Thursday I did indeed graduate to The Brace! The difference in my overall sense of wellbeing is profound. I, of course, immediately went and overdid it 😜!

I spent 10-1/2 hours over the last two days at our regional flower and garden show. It was divine! I took lots of breaks, and attended a lecture and a half (sitting 😏). My nurse manager (daughter 😁) came with me today, and drove too! I took my mama’s cane today, which helped overall. The fallout of walking the show is very grump legs. Not my ankle so much, but the act of walking on concrete for that much time after not walking much at all for 7.5 weeks is tired, little used muscles. It was worth it.

Amazingly, the only plant I came home with was a free native dogwood start, given out by one the biggest regional arborist. The plant I was lusting after wasn’t available at the one (1!) outdoor nursery vendor present at the show. Houseplants are the rage these days, and I have 40 of them. I was tempted by a number of them, but resisted. 🌱

The display gardens were intriguing and inspirational, particularly the fountains, big and small.

The next week is free of calendar obligations. I am cleared for and will start my adaptive yoga (no right foot balance or ankle rotations for 6-weeks), and swimming. I’m going to take the portable gardening bench gift I was given a year+ ago into the garden and figure out how to best use it while catching up on oh so many tasks, but will not over exercise my foot… Cause I want to keep on keeping on in the garden 😅.