It's sure been awhile since this thread was active- so I'll report and hopefully hear from everyone (although I do see you around on the other boards)! Last time I posted it was almost Christmas, and I'd fallen in the mud outside my house. We NEVER have mud in December up here- always snow- but it's been a wacky year in so many ways. Anyhow, my left foot shot out from under me and I landed smack-dab, full weight on my bent right knee. The pain was exquisitely excruciating! Long story short, I ended up with deep bone bruises, basically lots of micro fissures, in the patella and tibia. These fill with fluid/edema (body's way of healing) but of course, bone can't swell like soft tissue does. The ortho says it's as painful as a broken leg (yes, it is) and takes about as long to heal (yes, it does). I just abandoned crutches on Wednesday, making it nine full weeks on crutches. It's still painful sometimes, still swells, and I think I need to see the orthopedist again. Now that the majority of the edema is gone from the soft tissue, I'm hearing and feeling things that makes me worried there'll be some meniscus damage in there. However... now DH is laid up. He fell while hanging curtains over the kitchen sink a couple of weeks ago. Caught the full weight of the fall on his hands (palms down on the counter) before falling to the floor. His bicep muscle swelled enormously and his arm bruised up, but it was healing. Friday night, he slipped on ice- feet shot out straight forward, and he went down on his butt and palms flat on the ground, taking the weight of the fall. He asked to go to the doctor (yes, you felt the earth shift on its axis). They think he tore the biceps tendon with the first fall and the second fall may have torn the rotator cuff. Now he, too, awaits a call from the ortho's office to schedule an appointment. I am so thankful DD and SIL are living with us. It's not that we can't take care of ourselves, but it sure is nice to have someone around to lug in groceries, take out the trash, do the shoveling, etc. It is very weird to have my body seem to be crapping out on me. I don't feel like we are that old- I'm only 66- but I guess my body has other plans.
Despite all this, we are in good spirits and planning for another 2 weeks at a seaside cottage this summer. I just realized that we'll celebrate our 30th anniversary in June, so we're trying to think of a quick get-away for that. I will be stupidly busy with summer teaching, but I think it'll be worth it. Maybe a long weekend in Quebec... DD and SIL just came back from Winter Carnival and had a magnificent time, sightseeing in and learning about the city as much as from doing carnival stuff, so we might do that. Dunno... I'll come up with something, though!! I hope everyone is hanging in there and making it through the winter OK. This is the long part of the year up here... February only has 28 days but it feels like it's 8 weeks long!
The one we had was basically running on fumes so we replaced it with one with all the bells & whistles (most of which will never be used.) 
