Shortly after I wrote the “Hello 2026” post we drove to meet up with our daughter and family at the towns ice skating rink. I was never a competition skater and never progressed to actually using my edges. But I was a solid ice skater that could do two legged twirls, skate forward and backward and do bunny hops. I was eager to skate with grand girls. But I forgot that I had not been on Ice Skates in 20 years and 62 year old bones are (as EVERY ORTHO DOCTOR I WOULD SEE LATER THAT DAY POINTED OUT) not the same as 50 year old bones.
And so I stepped on the ice. Fell immediately and shattered my wrist. Roy got to play ambulance driver and drove me to MGH where I knew I could smoothly transition to see the hand surgeon** I saw years ago when I had my previous wrist break. And so we spent our New Year’s Day in the ED.
**The hand surgeon has been at MGH for a long time and has many fans among artists I know. He officially retired on Tuesday. I was one of his last patients.
And 6 weeks on, 2 surgeries later I am still not back due to my median nerve being angry. What a mess. No cast this time because I had to have plates as the wrist fracture was so bad. And thankfully it was my right wrist again. I am a lefty,
Meanwhile there is everything else going on in the world and my daughter’s nanny had a family crises and was out of commission and now we are expecting a blizzard. 2026 has ben a real $%#& show,
That being said last week we entertained our son’s band…what a blast to host this group of 5 talented SMART musicians. I have known 2 since they were Freshman and I just love them so much. It was fun to get to know the other two who had never really met before.
Then my son and family came and we had the most magical weekend with all the grandkids celebrating Nikko’s birthday and baby Blythe’s birthday. I made magic wands for the girls…turns out the one bit of art I could do in my misery was use a glue gun,
