Pat Sawtelle

Week two.   As the end of week two nears, I’ve learned a few more things. If you’re bending over to wrap a towel around your hair or...

Week one. Plan to spend the next few days eating on time and keeping up your fluids. Hydration is very important. Three meals a day...

Surgery day. Of course, one of the challenges on surgery day is that there is no eating or drinking after midnight. For those of us...

Preparing a few things to keep you busy.   As you begin to think about things you want to do during the first six to eight weeks...

Prepare For Sleeping.   Yes, you need to think about how you’re going to sleep. There’s no rolling over on your side or stomach,...

Personal Care.   Reaching your toothbrush, shaving, styling your hair, applying makeup, putting on jewelry, and even reaching for...

Planning what to wear. Do some online and YouTube searching for videos on how to dress and undress. There are a lot of sites by...

Staying Connected and Working.   Not everyone can work during this recovery, so if you can, figure out your options before setting...

Let’s start at the beginning .  Preparation. One of the best ways to prepare for this surgery is to have a “pretend” day. Pretend...

I am moving through this “fun” process and want to share things I’ve learned along the way. I hope you find some of it helpful. Important...

As we start 2025, let's think about the things we like and don't like about our world and make a plan to take a baby step each month to...

The phone rings, and you are looking forward to a call from your friend. Instead, there is a brief pause, and an automated voice tells...

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire, and Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, are just a few of the many books that...

Once you write a book, friends and family will promise to buy the book, confident you will get rich. However, when you get published the...

An author's home is behind the door to a weird corner in their mind that the average person should never open. Dark and stormy, weird...

"We plan to sell our house in a couple of years so we'll have to spend about 6 months preparing it just before putting it on the market."...

I'm testing the self-publishing process and finding it like the one I'm learning as we try to fix the outside of our house. Daily I find...