At the end of February I got my cast off from surgery on my right ring finger. It felt great to have my hand back again, to be able to type and grip things with my right hand. Easier to run. I was surprised that pulling the pins was pretty much painless. The PA just grabbed them with pliers and slid them right out.
I had to go to rehab for two days a week for 8 weeks, which actually helped a lot. There really is a specialty in hand therapy, even for a skeptic like me. I still don't have 100% use of the finger, maybe 90%. I can't bend the tip all the way down, and occasionally my grip isn't there because I don't have the same sense of touch. But otherwise it's back to normal.
Don't ask me what they were doing, but I believe that's her teacher in the middle, being wrapped in tp. The girl in the black cowboy hat with the funny face is Nina.
For the first day of spirit week at school, the girls got to dress up as their favorite fictional character. MM went as ____ and JoJo as Lucy from the Narnia books. These are class pic's (MM on top) but you can make out the girls.
For her physics class at school, Gaia and her partner Marco (also an exchange student from Italy) built a catapult to launch a golfball with some help from Mr. M. While it didn't launch very far, they had fun doing it and still got a decent grade.
Ask and you shall receive:
We had a bunch of people over, mostly family, but also Owen's friends Sam & Bash. Bobbins made meatball subs and Caesar salad, and of course a snowball cake. She & Julia, with help from the girls, did snowflake decorations around the house and back patio.
They were re-lighting candles, so it took a while for them to go out.
