Knee surgery is September 29.
Two weeks minimum in the wheelchair thereafter. Two months of physical therapy starting as soon as the stitches are removed.
3-6 months general recovery, doctor said. Months of pain on the left side of the kneecap, which may never go away due to the CRPS.
May or may not recover enough to take on my very lucrative coat check season, which begins the day of Thanksgiving. If I\’m not ready, I\’m going to pray for Indian Summer for every day until I am, so that I don\’t feel rotten about losing $300+ a night due to being gimpier than usual. (Watch there be a deep freeze all fucking winter.)
May or may not reach the point where I can bartend again before 2009.
Because we haven\’t found a house that the owners will sell to us yet, I have to move into my parent\’s McMansion in Bumfuck until I\’m able to walk up and down the stairs again (they have a wheelchair ramp in their backyard). This means being parted from my husband and our fuzzy-butted family for several weeks.
Crap. I\’m going to be severely poor, housebound, isolated, dealing with my parents, and in a shitload of pain — again!
