Here Goes Nothing

Literally.....Here goes nothing because I have nothing to say. I'm just updating because I'm bored with the "I had an apple" blog, but nothing exciting is happening and I haven't been thinking too deeply so there aren't any good "here are my thoughts" blogs built up in my mind.

I Had An Apple and I Cut It Up

I bet you didn't know that:

• There are 7,500 different varieties of apple grown worldwide.
• It takes about 40 apples to make 1 gallon of apple cider.
• Apples float because 25% of their volume is air.
• The largest apple on record was 3lbs 2 oz.
• The apple belongs to the rose family.
  

I have always liked apples but I've never been sure what my favorite kind of apple is.
This year (as one of my 2,001 things to do before I die) Jessie, my mom, and I conducted an "Apple Test" to see what apple was our favorite. Of course we didn't have all 7,500 varieties. We went to all the grocery stores around here and bought one of all the apple variety they had (besides red and golden delicious because we know we hate those).

After tasting 11 varieties of apple I have decided that Braeburn apples are my favorite. My mom's favorite were Jonathan, and Jessie's favorite were Honeycrisp.

It was a great way to usher in the new season!

Hey Mr. Arnstein

Lately I've been watching a lot of Turner Classic Movies and I've fallen in love with the male characters in them.

Not necessarily the actor (even though Robert Redford and Yul Brynner are fine).
Movies just don't have the men that they used to.
People compare Brad Pitt to Robert Redford and he just doesn't compare. Brad Pitt could never play any character that Robert Redford played because writers don't write the male character like they used to.

The Nerve!!!

Well for those of you who don't know my left arm still doesn't work. Making my name "tacy t-rex" a very appropraite one because my upperarm stays close to my body while I use the forearm area, making my arm really small and almost unuseable...kind of like a T-Rex.

What is being done about it?
Well my arm doesn't hurt so much anymore so that is good but from my elbow to my shoulder is still numb and I still can't make it move.
I had an EMG and the doctor said that none of my nerves were severed (hazaa!) BUT even though nothing was severed the nerves were still severely damaged and the doctor still weren't sure to what extent.

So now I have to go to Dr. Susan MacKinnonShe works at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
I guess she is amazing. I googled her and got a lot of returns, plus the head of the orthepadic department at Quincy Medical Group had an article she had written in a magazine ripped out and hanging on his wall. What is a little confusing though....is that she is the head of the department of plastic and reconstrustive surgery. I'm not sure why I need to see her because no one said anything about surgery.
Anyway...until my appointment (october 8th) I'll continue going to physical therapy twice a week to see if we can make my stupid arm work.

The Widow's Mite

This is my little sister Jessie. She loves me. Wanna know how I know she loves me?
Here's the story.

Ever since I lost the full functionality of my left arm, everyday tasks have been a little more complicated. For example, I can't put my own hair up because I can't get my arm up to my head. Jessie does this for me. She does everything for me. I can't get both hands into the sink, so even though I dirtied all the dishes Jessie does them, and so far I haven't heard her complain.
Today Jessie came to pick me up from work (seeing as I don't have a car), and she told me how excited she was because mom had bought candy bars as prizes for a game she was playing with the Young Women. Jessie said that if there was extra candy my mom would bring it home, and Jessie was really excited about this because one of the candy bars was a Milky Way, and Jessie LOVES Milky Way.

My mom came home tonight and there was a king size milky way left over!
Jessie didn't eat the candy bar right away because she wasn't 100% hungry for it, and she didn't want to eat it and not enjoy every single second of it.
She came into the kitchen when she was finally ready for her candy bar to discover that it had been opened and someone had eaten at least 3/4ths of it. There was enough Milky Way left to equal a fun size candy bar.
Jessie was a little upset but she sat down to eat it anyway.
I (because I'm mean and want to see how far I can push people) asked Jessie if I could have a bite of her one bite candy bar.
She looked at me with possibly the saddest look I've ever seen her have and she slowly shook her head up and down saying yes, she would cut her one bite in half and give me a bite.

This is how I know she loves me.

And because I love her back I didn't really take a bite.

April 27th

As a member of the National Arobr Day Foundation I just thought I'd quote Erez Sitzer and say
"If I knew the world would end tomorrow I'd still plant a tree today."