Isn’t this dandy?
I had an appointment with an orthopedist today to try and determine what’s wrong with my knee. I’ve been really worried that I seriously damaged something and would need surgery. It hurts like crazy when I stand up from a sitting position and I’m limping around like an old woman. Turns out I have an arthritic bone spur. The original x-ray showed nothing at all, so the doctor had his own tech do an x-ray on his machine and the bone spur showed up very clearly. I always thought an x-ray was an x-ray, but apparently there is a finesse to doing them correctly.
The doctor says physical therapy will have me ready to go in no time, so I hope that’s true. He said I should work out an exercise plan with my physical therapist, but the only thing to worry about is the pain. I’m not damaging things further when I work out, which was one of my concerns.
But arthritic bone spur. Ugh. That sounds like something an old person should have. I don’t want to be an old person! Better than the alternative, of course, but . . . ugh.
In other news. . . Elsa decided to go and grow a couple of inches upwards and outwards this week, so now none of her clothes fit. She keeps taking them off because they are too tight, which is fantastic during a polar vortex We have heat, but even with it pumping full blast it was still pretty chilly in the house. I was really hoping her winter clothes would last her all season, but we still have at least two more months of cold to get through so there’s no denying it. She’s going to have to have some supplemental wardrobe items. I even had to buy her a new winter coat! I can barely zip up her old one, especially with a fleece underneath it. Thankfully those types of things are on clearance right now.
My big PTA project launches tomorrow* and I am really nervous. We introduced the Read-a-Thon to the kids on Monday and they seem excited to try to earn the minutes, so I think the reading part will be successful. We put a box out and they can suggest crazy things for the principal to do if the school reaches 200,000 minutes. They are stoked!
I just don’t know if the fundraising part will be successful. We need to bring in at least $300 just to pay for supplies/prizes. I would hope we bring in a whole lot more than that, but everything with the PTA has been a dismal failure this year, so who knows. Part of the problem is that we’ve not had a single board meeting this year. I don’t understand how we are supposed to function without regular board meetings, but apparently I’m the only one who sees this as a problem. I can’t wait for this year to be over so I can throw in the towel. I can’t continue to use my energy on something that very, very few other people care about.
*Our school district only allows us to send home parent communications on Thursdays.
Margie said,
January 9, 2014 @ 5:59 am
Our PTA board shot down my idea of having a Read-A-Thon. They said we already had too many fundraisers (but after that decision was made, they added a “spirit store” fundraisers for kids to sell logo’d clothing). Which one did you go with? The online one?
Carrie said,
January 9, 2014 @ 10:58 am
No, I don’t think the online one would have worked for our school. It had too much commitment involved. I have planned the whole thing myself. The reading specialist has helped a ton. I couldn’t have done it without her.
Jean said,
January 13, 2014 @ 8:01 am
When I was on our PTA, we did a fund raiser ‘Pennies for PTA’ and encouraged kids to bring in pennies. We tracked donations not by $$, but by distance. It takes 84,480 pennies to equal a mile in distance – so $845. If you need $300, you could set that as a goal – 30,000 pennies.
It worked really well!