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I feel bad about complaining about my foot now. :-) I’ll be 65 in October and until last November I was exceptionally active. I rode a mountain bike on trails 15-20 miles two or three days a week and walked 3-5 miles the other days that I wasn’t riding. I don’t know if riding trails is in my future after this but I have a road bike I can take on easier Greenways. This summer has been tough but thankfully it’s almost over. If I want the foot to be normal again though I have to baby it for a while longer. We have a zero-turn Kubota riding mower that until this summer my husband was able to use but with his dizzy spells and weak legs it’s a little dangerous for him. My daughter loves to zip around on it so getting her to mow the yard is no problem. I don’t like it. I’m left handed and it gives me a problem. I have used it but I go pretty slow so it’s better to let them do it. I don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have a daughter and son-in-law that were both raised on a farm to help with the work.

Prayers for your recovery. Being disabled is a fear of mine and I always feel badly for anybody that is.

Well, you know what the heat and humidity's been like down here for the last several weeks, so he doesn't need to be outside doing anything heavy. We used to go to the gym three or four days a week and were workout nuts, but things have just caught up to us. Our primary mower is a Craftsman with a 46" deck, and we also have a Murray Select, but I need to replace the starter relay in it. Getting down to do things low isn't a huge challenge - I just move slow - but getting up is a different story. I generaly need a spotter, or I'm stuck on the ground unless I can crawl to something I can grip and try to work my legs back under me. My step-daughter, son-in-law, and the two grandkids had to temporarily move in with us because he lost his job out of town, so we're using him to do things like brush-burning, hauling, etc.

One good thing is, I was able to get handicap tags for our cars through our primary doctor (we're both so fried we each have our own specialists LOL), so either of us can generally get front door parking anywhere we go.