I don’t want to feel sorry for myself yet I have to recognize my limitations:  my left arm still hurts and is recuperating from surgery.

Despite that, I want to do all that I am capable of and not wallow in self-pity.  There are things I want to do and at the same time recognize my arm will hurt more if I overdo it.

I never made my traditional meal of potato latkes.  I was not up to it.  My son was disappointed.  At the time it was too much.  I feel up to it now and despite the fact that Hanukkah is now over I will make the dish for my wife and I.

I will keep looking around and see what needs to be done or I want to do.  No matter what I do my arm will still hurt.  I just have to recognize that.