Hi Shellie,

Best of luck my friend.
I hope for all the best and I KNOW that you will come through this with flying colours...imagine a rainbow!!

Prayers and blessings to you and yours. Calm your excitement and relax with hubby tonight and appreciate all you have and expect nothing so that you can appreciate everything.........VERY difficult for me to do and it will not be easy for anybody I suspect.

Love, hugs, prayers, blessings and freindship......lets hope hubby can keep you in the loop post-op it will be difficult to type on your own and your energy will slowly come back. I did feel run over by a truck but this too shall pass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Love and hugs,
Victoria

shelliemac-
Best of luck to you and your surgeon- hope to read of a good outcome soon.
be very careful with any activities during the post op recovery time.

today i'm having to take my baby 32-year-old daughter, chelsea, to an orthopedist to get a cast put on her ankle...

she suddenly tripped at the head of the landing and in the dark, accidentally fell down a rather steep, slippery set of stairs outside a hollywood party she was at with some friends of hers on friday night, you guys... went flying, literally (YIKES is right)!!!

"yep, be right back! just steppin' outside for a cig; don't anybody touch my drink, now!!!" famous last words of the lovely miss chelsea...

and down she went. head over high-heels. oy! my poor baby is a poor little thang. and, you can imagine how very h e l p f u l they were in the ER over at hollywood presbyterian hospital at that late hour. yeah, always try to get the night shift if you have to go the ER.... NOT!!!

and if anyone thinks i'm going to talk to her about maybe it's time to think about going easy on the drinkin' (i drank like a fish at that age, you guys) while she's all grouchy and hopped up on vicodin, well... you are just plain outta your mindz!!!

i do notice, she's not smokin' right now, though...

hmmm could it be, we've "stumbled" onto a cure for nicotine addiction!?!

why, i'll alert the media!

alison
"Be Brave"

shellie, you are going to do just great tomorrow. we will all be there with you in spirit... you and your whole surgical team. now go home! git! skedaddle! forget that "i am indispensable to my company" crap... nope, those pour souls are just going to have to limp along without ya for the next few months. now, scoot! i mean it! (by 'de way, if there was any lingering doubt about your TOS dx, this cinches it... in the office right up to the 11th hour? you're nutz, girl, definitely one of us!)

ShellieBest of luck and you'll be in my thoughts. It can only get better.

AlisonI have fallen in a bush or two in my day but I have to say it ended when I was 21. Started going out before it was legal and was done with going out when I could. I do love my wine, but keep it at home! This way You're right by your bed if you need it! Marriage and kids do change the partying scene.

Best wishes for a good night to all. Linda

Shellie,

I sure hope your surgery has gone well and that you are comfortable while you are recovering. Please let us know how you are faring. There's nothing like seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

Hi Shellie Hope all goes well for you tomorrow! Dorrie

LOL, Mark Sounds like Goober has some serious attitude! But you (or "he"?) hit the nail on the head about the florist suit.....

Shellie- I hope the best for you today

Mark- I am sorry you are having so many issues still...keeping you in my thoughts.

busy myself, hence the absence.

thinking of you all
Johanna

Hi Alison,
cant believe that you have to deal with all of this!!

hope she stops the smoking though!!

Mark....is Goober back....what happened with your pump!!!!

love to all my family!!(that includes you all!!)

Victoria

hi, kidz (special shout-out to shellie's husband if you're reading this - i'm gonna try to call you tomorrow to see how our girl is doing!) -

turns out chelsea has to have surgery on that ankle. overachiever that she is, she broke the thing so dang good that if she were to take option B (and live in a cast from her tippy, tippy toes all the way up to her groin for ~ 8 mos.), there's a chance the bonez wouldn't even set properly! PLUS which, she may have torn a ligament, too ... which we won't really know until the surgeon opens her up.

curtain call is tomorrow a.m. at 7:00, check-in time being 5:30 i'm a toddlin' off to bed here in a minute. the doc is going to put screws in to stabilize the broken ankle bones as i understand it, basically, and then if he sees the ligament to be badly torn as well, he will go ahead and also put a metal plate in while he's in there. airport security should be "interesting" from here on out...

it's an outpatient procedure, so must be laparoscopic, at least in part. i'm trying to be soooo good... letting her run the show (well, OK - him! - but you know what i mean, i think) and make her own decisions, etc. - which is just so hard for me, you guys! chels doesn't want to get a second opinion, just wants to "get her done!" and she likes this doc, so that's cool...

encino hospital is a good hospital. this surgeon was referred by one of the orthopedic guys i had consulted with way back in the early '90's for my "cervical spine problem" (yeah, right). well, OK... he missed the boat on my TOS dx but i do respect and like this cat.

and as it turns out, i have actually seen chelsea's surgeon myself, too, for a shoulder injury i suffered after a bad car accident back in 2001 in which, among other things, i tore a rotator cuff. he's a shoulder specialist. OK, so this guy missed my TOS, too! i've probably been to just about every top doc in los angeles in the 25+ years it took me to get the goddamned TOS dx, OK? christ. and PS, i don't have the disputed form, either. go figure!

but i digress. chelsea is well over 18, and if she's happy, then i'm happy. she's on her feet constantly with both of the jobs she has and needs to get back to where she can function in those capacities ASAP in order to be a happy camper. (and don't tell her this, but taking care of her like this is just plain wearing me OUT!!!)

she will still have to be in a cast after this surgery tomorrow, but it will be a short cast, not nearly as cumbersome and i don't think it will be for anywhere near as long. she'll be able to drive, etc. i've never broken any bonez before so don't really have a clear idea of what we're looking at here, but have high hopes that she will make a brilliant recovery, overall.

chelsea's already aching to get back to her kidz at the elementary school where she works with kindergartners. new crop coming in for miss chelsea - get out your crayolas, kiddos...

we've got a wonderful new writing surface for you to try out this year!!!!

happy wednesday to everyone. i hope shellie is getting the GOOD drugs at the horse piddle and that her TOS surgery went off without a hitch.

now, where is that OC woman with the virtual roses when we need her?

alison
"Be Brave"