{"id":86022,"date":"2025-01-28T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=86022"},"modified":"2025-01-28T23:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T06:54:59","slug":"more-time-needed-for-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=86022","title":{"rendered":"More Time Needed For Recovery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"frame aligncenter wp-image-86026\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-29-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-29-001.jpg 501w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-29-001-148x150.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is now 7:33 am, and Mary has yet to move; even the dog is comatose this morning.\u00a0 I was in the office working away on the Daily Diary when Alexa sent me an announcement, &#8220;Papa, please come and help me get up!&#8221;\u00a0 I scooted from the office to the master bedroom faster than a speeding bullet.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Mary how she felt and got the following reply.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-86022-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"1138\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-001.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-001.mp4\">http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-001.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>With great restraint, I withheld my typically funny comments because I know it is not fun to laugh (or sneeze) when your back is out.<\/p>\n<p>Mary&#8217;s report states, &#8220;It is getting better!&#8221;\u00a0 My challenge is to keep her down and not moving, a task suitable for Superman!<\/p>\n<p>Immediately, I went to the kitchen and began marinating a large New York steak, which I will share for breakfast.\u00a0 I also marinated mushrooms to add to the breakfast, either on the steak or eggs!<\/p>\n<p>I whipped up a gourmet lunch for Dr. Mary that was so delightful that even the taste buds were doing a happy dance! However, the kitchen? Let\u2019s say it looked like a tornado had taken a cooking class. I half-expected to find a missing sock in the mushrooms!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86033\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86033\" class=\"wp-image-86033 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-006.jpg 367w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-006-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I considered using a fire hose to do the cleanup!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This does not look too bad until you turn 90 degrees and see the rest of the mess!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86030\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86030\" class=\"wp-image-86030 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-003-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-003-650x488.jpg 650w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-003-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-003-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-003.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our cleaning staff were just here yesterday!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The sink was a mess, and the cutting area was awash in kitchen towels!\u00a0 Mary did NOT see this, but she wondered why I had been gone for so long!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86031\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86031\" class=\"wp-image-86031 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-004-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-004-650x488.jpg 650w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-004-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-004-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-004.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh My!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mary called her friend, a chiropractor, but he did not have the results from yesterday&#8217;s x-ray. We went to his office, and he was pretty sure that she had a muscle-related issue and not any broken ribs. We hope to validate that tomorrow when a radiologist reads the x-ray.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the office, and she got a minor adjustment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86032\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86032\" class=\"wp-image-86032 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-005-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-005-650x488.jpg 650w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-005-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-005-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-28-005.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUCH!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went directly home, and Mary returned to her horizontal position.<\/p>\n<p>I made an easy dinner for her: hard-boiled egg, cottage cheese, and tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Mary watched TV while I worked in the officeI made a BIG pot of bean soup (after yesterday&#8217;s mess, in which I burned a pot of beans).\u00a0 I dumped in two pounds of chicken so it is full of protein.\u00a0 I made two bown at 1:30 pm, one for Mary and one for me!\u00a0 It was terrific!!!<\/p>\n<p>By 10:30 pm, we were out like lights!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-86035\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/457374676_3927183190897190_8914466112752854816_n-1-650x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/457374676_3927183190897190_8914466112752854816_n-1-650x673.jpg 650w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/457374676_3927183190897190_8914466112752854816_n-1-145x150.jpg 145w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2025\/01\/457374676_3927183190897190_8914466112752854816_n-1.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now 7:33 am, and Mary has yet to move; even the dog is comatose this morning.\u00a0 I was in the office working away on the Daily Diary when Alexa sent me an announcement, &#8220;Papa, please come and help &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=86022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,228,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-doctor","category-working-around-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86022"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86039,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86022\/revisions\/86039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}