Libby progress

Next step will be ‘getting to rehab. There are two good places in Socorro. 20 some miles away, but they are assigning her (at  least for now) to a facility in Belen, about 90 miles north of us. At least it is on the right (NEAR ) side of Albuquerque- ie; we dont have to go through it <G>

I  dont think that many of the locals, cowboys and such, that i have been tryng to round up for as many as three rides a week  to Socorro are not going to be happy going all the long way to Belen; it is too far away to DO anything when you get back. Ranchers may look like they are not working, or even like  they are  having fun, but they are, working,  however slowly, and so they often like to work nearby where they can drop in and out.(Socorro is ‘nearby’ to anything in our Socorro county.).  I had been checking out this pool or rather looking FOR them.. again Carlos knows —that we are intermittently hard working. The good ones  are ABSOLUTELY trustworthy. More in a minute, And one more thing— there is a medical shuttle between Maggie and Socorro ;;

 So: let   us take a break to praise our heroine, and brilliant modern medicine.The older ones in  this group can remember when an  old person with a broken hip faced  a possible death sentence or at least being imprisoned in   a so- called ‘home’ in a chair, permanently .

Whereas; they apparently gave Libby a choice- Do you want to sit in a chair for the rest of your life, or do you want to WALK?

 Can anyone doubt that the posessor of those legs, which took her on foot to Everest Base  Camp when it took a month to complete the trip, against the  flow of the mountain, an endless up and down, would say WALK!

And she DID , about 24 hours or so after her operation..

With Catherine Lassez