Been a little "KNEE"-dy lately...

Sorry it's been so long between posts... but I have a GREAT excuse! I just had surgery on BOTH knees! AAGGHHH!!! Friday, Sept. 17 I had bilateral arthroscopic knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus on both knees! The right knee also had to have some extra work done, since it was in worse shape.

Since I would have both knees wrapped & they would be swollen & huge, Roger & Lindsay bought me these lovely 2 XL scrub pants so they would fit over the bandaging! SHEESH! So, I was like the dry cleaning- - in by 7 am out by noon. Everything went very well. Roger could not resist snapping a photo while in the surgery center... (and my family thinks I am the worst one for always taking pictures!! )

The Dr. sent me home with no crutches, no nothing... just the advice to start walking on those knees! So, I did. (However, I did alot of sitting in my lounging love seat too!- snuggling with Colby made it much more bearable!)

Misty flew out & helped Lindsay & Roger be great nurses for me. She brought a wonderful little machine that her roommate Shelli had used after her knee surgery! (THANKS SOOOOO MUCH SHELLI ). It's like a small cooler that you put ice & water in, then the tube connects from the cooler to a wrap that goes around your knee & gives your knee constant cold water circulating around it. The next day we found out that Roger's sister Rhonda had one too so we got it & the rest of the time I had both knees surrounded in ice water! FANTASTIC!

So, I'm doing great now. I've been shopping at JC Penneys and even got on the stationary bike this morning to start more rehabing. Thanks to Lindsay, Colby, Misty & Roger for great nursing! Thanks to Aaron, Layne, Mason, Zach & Arie for great get-well treats! Thanks to Debbie Davis for outing me on Facebook - thus giving me LOTS more get-well wishes than I might normally have had. And thanks to my RS Pres. Deanna Hildebrandt - for the homemade Wheat bread to help in my recouperating!

GO COUGARS!!!

Parking- $10.00, Bottled Water- $3.00, 3 hot dogs & 3 rootbeers- $23.00, getting to go to BYU football games all season..... PRICELESS !!!

Today was a wonderful day!!! The first BYU football game of the 2010 season! All of our children

and I went together to buy season tickets for Roger's birthday present. (great present since I get to

tag along too! ) BYU played Washington in the opening game at home. We had great seats -(even though we got them so late in the year!) We sit on the "Alumni" side (which is the same side as the press box - the kids would call it the "Old People Side"... but, whatever!) It was great because it was a late afternoon game & our side was already in the shade! WAHOO! that was especially good since it was in the high 90's all day!) Our seats are right on the goal line... but, hey... we're not in the endzone... and not in front of the band.... and didn't have to pay a gazillion dollars to join Cougar Club & get the seats right across the aisle from us! ha! And, as the kids next to us said...

"We have a great view of the entire field from here!" ha! There's a glass half-full attitude. We are on the 22nd row (and there are only 36 !) Since Lindsay & Colby are here visiting, Lindsay came too!

We loved watching the marching band form the "Y" (while they played the Alma Mater song which I don't think I've ever heard in all my years of either attending BYU or coming to visit! sheesh!)

Then they spell out the word COUGARS - which is hard to make out because of our angle.- But at least we knew the song they played this time... It was the Cougar fight song ! (or, as my kids know it - the get out of bed song mom always sang to us in the mornings... "Rise & Shout..... )

And see the band & everyone line up for the team to run onto the field thru the pathway they make.

Since this first game was one where they were honoring past All-American Quarterbacks and

LaVell Edwards as their coach - Jim McMahon ran out the big white BYU flag in front of the team.

At half time (not HAFF TIME.... hee-hee) the 8 all-american quarterbacks (Virgil Carter, Marc Wilson, Robbie Bosco, Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Gifford Nielsen, Ty Detmer, and Steve Sarkisian - (the coach of Washington - but he was in the locker room with his team) were all presented , along with their Coach -LaVell Edwards & told us that they, along with other donors,

were starting the Y Quarterback Endowment Fund & they had raised $1 million dollars this weekend to start it off.

Of course we HAD to insert a picture of us driving to the game with our BYU window-flag - given to us by Layne & Aaron & family for our anniversary! And the best part.....???????

BYU WON !!! 23-17 . Thanks again to all the family for the present of season tickets! We love it!