It Snowed Overnight - Shoveling Might be Tricky

Today will be my first day back at the shop since my surgery. Of course, it's been snowing overnight, and I'm not supposed to lift anything heavier than a water jug. That's going to make clearing the front and back of the store difficult. I probably can do it in small increments, but I can't really throw the snow effectively onto the sides of the walkways. *sigh* No choice. I'll bring my power shovel along with me, that might be helpful. 

I will have to be very careful about my movements as I clear 
the snow away from the front and rear of the store. I don't 
want to strain or tear any of the surgical sutures internal or 
external. My power shovel should help a lot with that, but 
it won't do everything for me. 

But it's 3:45 am and I've been up for an hour. I think all of this lazing around and sleeping here and there over the past two days has maxed me out on sleep. I'll probably regret the sleep loss tonight when I fade, but that's then, and I have a long day ahead of me before I get there. I charged up the batteries for my power shovel overnight, so I have two freshly charged batteries ready for it. Now if I can just remember how to turn it on LOL - it's a little tricky. 

I have a power shovel similar to this, although mine 
is green and a different brand. I'm not expecting too 
much from it - mine was a very inexpensive Taiwan 
knock-off that arrived in the poorest packing job I've 
ever seen before for an overseas shipment. Still, you 
get what you pay for, right? I didn't pay much! LOL

I was going to make some soup yesterday, but simply didn't have the energy. I lazed around all day. My doctor phoned in the early afternoon, confirming that they had removed a malignant tumor of approximately 10mm diameter from my right breast, but that everything else tested out negative. I see her again in a bit over two weeks. Claire will accompany me again - she's been an amazing, wonderful friend. 

We had been hoping my tumor would be in the 6mm-8mm 
size range, but it turned out to be 10mm, so in the next 
category. I deal with beads and mm sizing all the time, I'm 
rather staggered to think that my tumor was 10mm big! 

So, despite the fact that I'm up at almost 4:00 am when I wanted to sleep until 6:00 am, I'm considering this to be a win. A decade or more ago, it would have been a death sentence. Medicine has come a long way with breast cancer in the intervening decades, and I totally approve of the strides that have been made. I'm off to the shop today, and to figure out how to use my power shovel - LOL. Have an excellent Saturday, I'll be back on Monday. Slava Ukraini.