Forever in Blue Jeans

I have tried to keep my focus on this little incident that happened to me and left me slightly altered and definitely slowed... I have learned a lot of things and I today put back on the blue jeans.
I am trying not to be judgmental of clothing but I really love blue jeans; I could be forever in blue jeans.  However due to having a very large right leg, I have been in stretch pants, sweat pants and "Thank goodness for Savers and Goodwill pants" time of life.  Actually the spandex pants I did find at wal-mart really looks like dress pants so I have actually looked nice once or twice.
But after over 2 weeks of living in squishy pants I longed for jeans. Most of my jeans are more like what they call "skinny" jeans. I am far from skinny but the legs at the bottom are slim. Now in the ordinary  life the skinny jeans and cowboy boots. In my modified life, skinny jeans don't fit over the large blue cast. I went through the jean drawer today and pulled at the legs and found one that stretched a bit more..So little by little I pulled until I got the right leg of the jeans over the big blue hard fiberglass cast.  It looks a bit dorky but I was beyond happy. I am wearing jeans again.
The neighbor came over and picked me up and we went on an adventure to the nursing home. I always go the second Friday of the month and so armed with my Valentine book and songbooks, we went in and had a great time. Hobbling back home I have been sitting on the on the couch and enjoying the Apple TV watching the Hatfields and McCoys.
So looking back at the past couple weeks I have noticed a few things.
1, people get out of the way when they see crutches.  There is something about a crutch that moves people. People help you with your food, people open doors and people hug you when you are hurt. They also feel sorry for Jim...He is really doing fine, but people think it must be really hard for him to wait on me!!! I make him cookies so he's really doing fine.
2. If you need to use the motorized carts, Wal Marts are the fastest- Target hadn't gotten theirs charged and I could outwalk the cart with my crutches.  Fleet Farm you have to go through loops to get the cart!
3.  Pity doesn't get you very far but it does get you rides.
4.  After a while it gets really boring... it sounds like fun to lie around doing nothing but after awhile it's like watching the sun set... and it's cloudy out! It takes forever and you can't tell anything...

So I am walking more and more all the time as long as I put 1/3 of my weight on my leg.  I guess what 1/3 of the weight is and with the two crutches and distributing it equally with two crutches and one bum leg.  Sleeping is interesting because the leg gets in the way.  It's like having a smurf on the end of your foot and when you turn off the tv the smurf is still with you.  So, smurf and I are going through the rest of the week and finding fun ways to make people laugh at my expense... I am sure God is giggling at some of the antics. And tonight, I plan to get on the 4 wheeler and go to the arena so I can check out a saddle for someone. For a few moments I can pretend I am "normal" again!