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I must have experienced an intuition which led me to choose that image of Cyndie’s knee brace for yesterday’s post. It wasn’t a conscious decision, but I wasn’t entirely unaware of the fact that Cyndie would be going to a physical therapy appointment in the morning. The news out of that appointment was exciting! She was given permission to spend more time out of the brace than in it. Also, for the first time since the injury occurred, she is allowed to put partial weight on the broken knee, while using her crutches. In addition, she gets to add swimming back into her routine. That is a real special milestone for her, and will give added incentive for our weekend drives up to the lake. It has been a torture for her to sit on the beach, but not go in the water.

There is evidence the bone is healing, and she has successfully avoided putting any weight on it up to now, which has prevented the fractured portion from displacing. They even teased her with the  possibility that riding horses might be only a month away, if she experiences no setback in progress.

Cyndie is very focused on getting back to spending more time with the horses. Monday she made the trip out to visit her friend’s ranch, just to sit in a chair at a corner where groups of horses in two different fields can reach her. Someone pointed out that she should see the movie, “Buck,” that is in the theaters here now. She didn’t hesitate. We made it a date Monday night and went out for dinner and a movie. It is a pretty special portrait of a man who definitely understands how to communicate with horses, and that a horse is a mirror to our soul. We highly recommend it.

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Good luck today to the US Women soccer team in their semi-final game against France. Turn it on if you get a chance, (11:00 a.m. CDT, ESPN). I am not able to miss work to witness the competition, but I will try to pick up a bit of the live streaming video during my lunch hour. What? Me, fret?

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