Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Hi Friends!! Happy Thanksgiving week to all! We spent Saturday raking leaves! We have 14 bags plus 3 or 4 trash containers FULL of leaves! Yes, the beauty of living in an older neighborhood is the lovely trees. The downside is raking and bagging all those leaves! We haven't even started on the driveway or backyard. Now that the weather has turned colder, I'm not sure that we will get too much more done, but there could be a warm day or two coming up and we will try! WARNING- Scary photo ahead!

I had surgery on my eyes a couple weeks ago! OUCH!!! Oh. My. Word! That really hurt a lot! The surgery is called Ptosis and Blepharoplasty and it is a type of surgery that removes excess skin from the eyelids. With age, eyelids stretch, and the muscles supporting them weaken. As a result, excess skin and fat can gather above and below your eyelids making you look tired and impacting your vision. So they cut into your eyelids and shorten those muscles and remove excess skin. It can be hereditary and so far, two of my sisters have either had or will have the same procedure. I have had significant bruising (black eyes), but those are improving now at the 2-week mark. I was awake pretty much throughout the entire procedure. The doc used light sedation at the beginning, but then the surgeon woke me up so he could see my eyes open and do the surgery properly. He told me to let him know when hurt a LOT, so I cried out a few times and he put more numbing creme in. But remember that old rhyme - "stick a needle in my eye" Yep -- that's what it felt like - lots of needles in my eyes and I could feel the stitches going in. OY!! I believe it was a success, however, my eyes feel so itchy at times and I cannot itch them. I think that will improve soon. This photo is from a couple days ago - so I'm almost at 2 weeks post-surgery. I have some concealer on in the photo, but I sure wish I was better at make-up to hide these bruises! :)

We are headed to my son's house for Thanksgiving this year. Should be fun to see them and the kiddos! I'm taking my famous pumpkin pie and fudge! YUMMM! Happy Thanksgiving All!