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A long day

 But the shoulder surgery is done.  We’re home to the hotel room. An hour and a half of surgery.  The surgeon repaired her rotator cuff tendon and the biceps tendon as well (arthroscopically).  Otherwise, her shoulder was in good shape.  No arthritis or bones spur issues.  It’ll hurt a lot in the days to come.  She’ll be in a sling for six weeks. She didn’t get to eat before surgery, so she was hungry tonight. Anything she wants for dinner.  We split a Whataburger. Tomorrow we drive back to Sandpipers to recuperate in the sun on the deck.  We don’t see the doctor again for two weeks.  
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Poked and prodded

 The pre-surgical work is done.  Judy got an EKG, blood test, urinalysis, chest x-ray, and they lightened our wallet.  The surgery has been moved back an hour to 3pm tomorrow.  Check-in at 1.  No food or drink after midnight tonight.  Not even water! The hotel provided an ottoman for the chair.  We’ve got all the pillows we can use to make Judy as comfortable as possible without lying down. A trying time, but Judy will be pretty stoned after, so that should help.  And just in case it gets stressful for me too, there is plenty of beer and wine in the mini-fridge.  I just need to not get as hammered as Judy! And tonight….  Judy dodged another pizza.  Dinner on the deck at Snoopy’s. 
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The motorhome is in San Antonio

 Our house is in Edinburg.  We’re in Corpus Christi in a motel room. Tomorrow morning, Judy gets her pre surgery blood work.  Tuesday, she actually gets the work done.  No pizza for her tonight.  We went to the Asian Café for Chinese.  
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Judy

 After her shoulder surgery she won’t be able to lie down flat for weeks.  She’ll have to sleep in the recliner chair.  Instead of having her at the other end of the house by herself, we rearranged the bedroom to make room for the recliner.Now we can at least be in the same room. With Judy going in for repairs though, what most of you are probably wondering now is:  “What is Steve going to do while Judy has one shoulder out of service?  Who is going to fix him dinner?” Well, rest assured, Steve is fully capable of handling this situation.  Judy can have frozen pizza from the gas station for dinner every night if she wants.  And in the unlikely event she wants something else, we can change it up with a Blizzard from Dairy Queen!  I think we can expect a speedy recovery.