Change in plans - senior way of life!

Well, when you get to senior status, you stop playing tennis, and start playing a made up game called Pickleball – because it takes less running! Well, we learned that Pickleball is not without its own risks.

The Woman was playing in a beginner’s instructional group at the RV Park we are staying at. On one of the shots, she was backing up to get a shot when she stumbled and fell, and of course tried to stop herself by putting our her arm – we all know you are not supposed to do that, but instincts just kick in when those unexpected events occur. The force of her fall on her outthrust arm resulted in a severe fracture of her wrist – ended up in an ambulance visit to the emergency room at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert CA.

The good news is there are good orthopedic physicians in the Palm Springs area, and the emergency room physician arranged a visit to one of them for the day after the fall. The bad news is that the visit to the orthopedic physician confirmed that the break was a bad one, and one that required surgery to repair.

The orthopedic physician said we were actually in luck – if we wanted to, he had a cancellation of a scheduled surgery tomorrow and we could take that spot. Our last set of tickets for the tennis matches were for tomorrow, so we asked if there was any way to schedule the surgery for next week. The orthopedic physician told us it was unlikely that we could get the surgery done anywhere in the country next week - the biggest convention for orthopedic surgeons in the world was in Vegas all next week and he expected pretty much every orthopedic surgeon in the country would be there. So, given the need for some urgency in getting the surgery done, we decided we would forgo our last visit to the Tennis Gardens and get the Woman fixed up.

We were bummed when we found out that Serena Williams would be playing tomorrow and we would miss her – she might be the only other player that we really wanted to see but hadn’t yet. But as it turned out, she doesn’t play until tomorrow night and we have the day tickets – so we would not have seen her anyway. We are sad about missing our last chance at the Indian Wells matches live, and one last time to see both Rafa and Roger – we certainly have had a great time to couple of days that we attended. But we need to get the Woman all fixed up, and that priority comes first.

Hopefully the surgery goes off the way it should and the Woman will be on the mend.

Talk to you soon!