Good to hear from you Ann! I'm sorry to hear about your bursitis and your accident with the tripod. Thing like that seem to happen to us "older" folks. <G>
Hang in there and continue to share your wonderful images with us when you feel up to it. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys , sorry to be so absent but just haven't been able to get too involved > in anything but my stuff right now... I have randomly clicked on PESO's now > and then and sometimes wrote someone off list - the people I'm closer to in > real life, mostly. > > I've got bursitis. It blossomed a few weeks ago, lapsed and came back in > spades when I used the leg that had it to stop myself from falling when I > walked into my tripod in my living room. The living room is > really my edbay photography studio and I had moved the T-pod from its > normal space to clear the table when I friend came to visit.. > That was about 10 days ago.. > > I now am walking with a cane all the time and taking a trolly cart > when I go out - takes me 3 times as long to get anywhere and back and hence > shortens my productive hours. > > rest, elevation, ice. repeat. I'm not totally healed - but things > are much less painful. Of coruse I did it to myself initially trying > to carry far too much for my small frame down 3 flights of stairs. > > I have two friends/neighbors who are helping me haul things up the stairs > when I get home... I don't feel too bad about asking one of them in > particular to do that as I get his mail when he is away and his work > schedule is such that he often gets a few weeks at a time off - while here > it is intense workload 4 days a week. > > I've been using my offic chairs with wheels as wheelchairs to propel myself > around the apartment part of the time. it is so easy that > could make me lazy - trying not to let that happen. > > I can't carry my camera outside at all so no street shooting for a while. > > I have been cooking somewhat having discovered a trick with my > toaster oven that isn't revealed in the instructions. I can bake > in it... by NOT using the bake dial except to get it up to temperature. > then turning to "warm" to get only the bottom element to come on. Made > delicious blue cornmeal and pine nut muffins. > > treated myself to delivery of a large batch of goods from Trader Joes > on the 14th.... > > so I'm getting by but don't feel like doing much, thinking much. > tv, words with friends, phone visits with friends and family. > and I got "finding Vivian Maier" out of the library and watched > it 3 times. Obviously, I love it. > > I'm still searching for the location of a couple of photos > .. I thought maybe Florida but now think California.. > > anyone know?... > > http://annsan.smugmug.com/Friends-and-Family/Blackstone-family-vintage/i-ckpkZGk/A > > thanks for the "likes" I got on the January PUG shot. The gallery overall > was terrific this month,methinks > > ann > annsan.smugmug.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
