Crossroads yet again

This morning, I had written up a magnificently wondrous post about my weekend, the forums, my Squidoo lenses, and all the other things that make the world go ’round.  Then, of course, WordPress ate my post and I lost it in its entirety.  Wah!

Right now, I’m just too much at sixes and sevens to really focus on recreating the dynamic wordplay that marked my previous post.  You see, over the weekend yet again I received another wakeup call regarding my future mobility…and it just wasn’t very good indeed.  After walking from here to eternity during my wonderful jaunt at the local flea market, my left ankle happily waved at me and proceeded to go on strike. 

I’m fine now today, but it did emphasize to me that I have one of two options –

Get surgery that has no guarantee of success

or

Continue to use orthotics/etc. until my ankle just collapses and I’m no longer mobile.

Neither solution really appeals to me, I’ll tell you that!  But I am leaning towards learning more about surgical options….I am really quite afraid of one day, seeing my ankle snap in the wrong direction and bye-bye walking for the rest of my life.  I just realized I can no longer do my beloved 2.4 mile circle walk without extreme limping by the end…and that, more than anything else, is truly a crossroads for me.

Sigh.  Talk about character-building.  I find myself recently teaching both my kids and my friends far more than I usually do….I feel like I have to share as much as possible before it’s too late.

Very weird feeling, that.  But like everything, everything happens for a reason…and I’m certain that whatever I’m meant to learn during this stage in my life will benefit both me, my friends and my family later on.

And those are me thoughts,

Barbara