Sue - My Dive Buddy

I spent yesterday with my dear friend, Sue Revie. We took many dive trips, starting in the 1980's, with the Undersea Adventurers Dive Club and always had fun. She was my roommate on our trip to Israel in 1996 and I discovered that she's very organized in her touring techniques. You take notes during the tours and look at them in the evening but you also start reading up on where you're going the next day.

Here we are in Jerusalem on our camel ride.

Sue's "thing" is travel and she's been to every continent including some really exotic places such as the South Pole, the North Pole, the Galapos Islands, New Zealand, Namibia, Turkey, North Korea, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Iceland, India, Egypt, Cyrus, Jordan, Malta, Tunsia, China, and Tibet.

It's so ironic that, after traveling to all those dangerous places, she fell in her own kitchen and broke her arm on April 8, 2008. The bone didn't heal, which caused pain, deformity and limited motion, which lead to the necessity of surgery Dec. 11, 2008 to put in a plate. During the process of moving her muscles aside, the nerve to her hand got "bruised" causing her hand and wrist to suffer paralysis.(Radial Nerve Palsy) with a 6 to 12 month time frame for regeneration.

Oh, the things we take for granted, such as cooking. How can you peel vegetables with one hand? Thankfully, Home Health comes in a couple times a week, but that's a drop in the bucket. Oh, to make things tougher, the surgeon wouldn't do the surgery until she quit smoking.

UPDATE as of 1-22-09
Sue saw her doctor this week and there's good news. The bone has healed!! Now she will be going to therapy several times a week for her to regain lost strength and motion and prevent atrophy of wrist. Also, she and her boss practiced giving a shot and taking BP so Sue will be able to work some.....Keeping morale high is a good thing!