Kansas City time!

I flew into Kansas City on March 28th, to be here for Mom's hip replacement surgery on the 29th.  All has gone really well with that, she's home and moving around better than she has in at least a year, and has not had to use much pain medicine at all.  She's on strict orders to use the walker at least until her follow-up in two weeks, but I'm betting she gets down-graded to a cane then, and that won't last long, I don't think.

Today, 4 days post-op, Wendy, Mom, and I took our first field trip out of the house.  We were determined to go see the Salvy billboard in Westport.  It was quite the excursion!  Lots of traffic, lots of people, but I dropped Mom and Wendy off by the billboard and parked a couple of blocks away, and walked back to meet them.  We took along a folding chair in case Mom wanted/needed to sit, but it stayed folded up.  Mom did use her walker while waiting in line, and walking back to the car, but we left it out of the pictures.

This was so much fun!  Everyone there was in a really good mood, and people were helping take pictures for each other.

Part of the line of people waiting.

A wedding party waiting to get their picture taken.

This seemed like the perfect day to have some Jack Stack for dinner.  Yum!!

Mom's BBQ chicken.

My burnt ends with beans and slaw.

Settling in to chill out for the evening.  24 hours until BASEBALL begins again!