Sylvia's Scenario

This month has been a whirlwind of activity and mental exhaustion known to baseball fans as October baseball.  Our team, the Seattle Mariners, made it to the MLB playoffs and kept winning.  They've made it to the playoffs before, exactly six times since their inaugural year of 1977, but this year they kept winning. This year they made it to game 7 of the ALCS (American League Championship Series) after winning the ALDS (American League Division Series) against Detroit.  Not only did we make it to game 7, they were ahead in the game through seven innings before they lost to the Toronto Blue Jays.  That's the closest they have ever gotten to the World Series...within 3 innings.  Agonizing, to say the least.   Playoff games are not like regular season games at all.  They're much more intense and there is lot more strategy applied by the coaches like the way they use the pitchers, how they arrange the batting lineup, etc.  There is a lot to understand...

I wasn't joking when I said this is our year of reconstruction with our house being remodeled and having a  total hip replacement  in February.  I'm on a roll right now so on August 15th, I had my right knee done, too.  Both my knees need a total knee replacement which is a bummer but I need to just buckle up and get it done.  My hip surgery went so well that I wasn't so fearful of the knee surgery, although everyone keeps telling me they are totally different experiences.  I realize their differences but I was still eager to get it over with.   I'm currently post op. day # 9 and it hasn't been that bad at all.  If I was to give anybody advise about this surgery, it would be PAIN CONTROL.  Duh.  I know that sounds obvious but twice I tried reducing my pain meds because I was feeling so good and twice I ended up increasing them back up to the prescribed amount.  I need to be doing my PT exercises 3X/day and I can't d...