Monday, April 3rd - 9th Easter and Terri!

Monday: Back to our routine, AA at school, I worked, Ford went to his exercises and grocery shopped. I made homemade sloppy joe for our dinner tomorrow evening. 

After school, we all had a pedicure and manicure. Spoke to Jana Kinder and Edilyn Williams about our visit with Ian yesterday; preparing their kids if they decide to visit later today (they did visit Ian).

Ford air-fryer fish, homemade cornbread with Publix side of slaw and beans. We learned of our neighbor's passing, David Coats, he was well, until last week and quickly went into hospice care.
Tuesday: We received the text about Ian passing. Very sad, must tell AA after school. 

We went to the River House for our usual happy hour, I took a new appetizer - in the phyllo cups with goat cheese mixed with lemon zest, lemon juice, chives, parsley, salt and pepper, then place a raspberry and drizzle of balsamic and honey on each.
Wednesday: I didn't sleep most of the night, had plenty of coffee and worked for a couple of hours, walked Ginger, made a blueberry buckle, took three pieces over to neighbor Nancy (her son Jeff and Dayna Coats are staying with her). Nancy's plans are to hold a summer service for David, fly to Oregon and then drive to California; then a service in New York with family.

Made dinner of rigatoni, kale, cheese casserole (meatless). 

AA's JOI Dr. Sacksteader appointment was a shock - a ligament tear and a bone relocation plus cartilage repair/clean out under the knee cap. We are happy the Doctor found the source of her pain, sad to know that only surgery will repair it. Email I sent to AA's coaches:

Greetings,

We have an update on Alyzabeth's left knee, and thought I would share this information with those involved with her golf game. Her first doctor scheduled physical therapy for three months, and with not much progress, we went back to JOI for a second look.

From the recent MRI (Dr. Sacksteader), she will need surgery to her tibial tubercle osteotomy (realigning the patella, relocating the bone, centering it just under her knee cap), medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction, patellar chondroplasty and diagnostic arthroscopy (cleaning out cartilage under knee cap). I hope you understand these terms, we are just learning about them. 

She will be on crutches/brace for six weeks along with three - six months in physical therapy. We are scheduling the surgery now, may be as soon as April 20th, will confirm this week (or May 11th, is the next available date). 

We appreciate your support of her and if you have words of advice/wisdom, we would be happy to meet up to chat about what is ahead for Alyzabeth. We miss our golfing family!

Regards, Ford and Alyson Morgan

Thursday: We welcomed a visit by Coach Bryan Kipnis, he shared his knowledge and his wife's medical knowledge of the surgery planned for AA. It was good to talk to him and map out a plan for after the surgery. Ford went to his exercises while I worked and washed down the porch furniture, then off to do errands.

Friday: Good Friday. AA off school and is running a temperature up to 100 degrees, resting/napping and hoping it is only a 24 hour bug. We shopped at Publix, bought outlaw chicken salad for the coming week, bought a flowering plant at Pat's - dropped it off/short visit with the Bailey's.

Saturday: AA was scheduled to take an AICE (practice) History test with Siyan coming over afterwards to finish a presentation - which all did not happen with AA sick.  AA rested and felt better by the evening. The weather changed, rain front came through, stormy!

We went to our River House Happy Hour, Kathy was with her two sons, Tom and Ed so did not come. We enjoyed stuffed dates by Hugh (orange zest, goat cheese, honey, salted almonds, lemon juice) - delicious! The rain began just as we were leaving.

Sunday: Easter Sunday and Terri arrived. 

AA and I still remarking about what a tough past week she has had, sad and mourning will continue. We did go to the Clay County Fair, weather was horrible once Terri arrived - wind, rain, cold! So no family came over but later we decided to go (see separate post).