Seriously, I got to have surgery???!!!

yep.  That is the official word from the Doctor this morning. He said I definitely torn my tendon and it must be surgically fixed; but then, I knew that already from how it has been feeling. My doctor said he was feeling really guilty about having to tell me that because he says he doesn't want some village to suffer because I'm not going to get back to Honduras at the end of December. So, surgery is scheduled for December 1st.  If all goes well, I will be 3 weeks on crutches, then 3 weeks in a walking cast and then 3 weeks in a removable cast.  That is a WHOLE lot better than the last time I did this. He did say he would be mindful of how he puts it back together and will try to alleviate the recovery time as much as possible.  Course that begs the question, "If I wasn't in a hurry, does that mean he would just slice and stitch without regard to recovery???"

Seriously, how do you create a blog????!!!!

So many people have asked me to start a blog instead of the mass emails I put out when we are in the field, so I thought, why not?  After all, I am a college graduate (although it was over 30 years ago) and I don't think I'm stupid (no comments there please). Soooo, I start searching for a free blog service and found this one.  No problem, I think.  It should be a self guided thing, not too difficult; I can do this. Well, It took me a week to just figure out the title of the blog.  So much for easy. Then, once I finally got the name, I find out I have  to make up a layout.  Now I'm totally stumped. Maybe I should just go back to the email thing...