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Anywhere doing soft serve margaritas in Chico?

P.s. my husband and I just moved here so feel free to comment with your fav food and drink spots :-)

I've been an OT at a SNF for my entire short career thus far. I also have a BSW and experience working in the social services realm.

I'm having a major knee surgery (OCA) next week and will be out of commission for ~6 mo to a year to protect my graft site from failing.

Anyone have an experience where they had to pivot to a desk job or less physical job for a while? What did you pivot to and what jobs did you search for? I'm thinking case management for a while maybe?

Everyone keeps telling me to go work in a school or hands. I have not much experience with either of those, don't really have much of an interest in schools/peds. I actually recently tried to shadow outpatient for the hands side of things and they wouldn't let me because of my lifting restrictions (this is my second knee surgery in 3 months), which is crazy because I'm asking to shadow not volunteer.

I'm a 31F, pretty healthy and active besides my Osteochondritis Dissecans in my knee. Having an Osteochondral Allograft (donor) surgery on the 15th. Anyone else who has had this surgery or similar- how many days did you need someone there around the clock? Unfortunately most of my family lives across the country. I do have my husband and in laws here. Surgery is on a Friday so my husband was going to take Fri- Mon off work and then we would just see how I feel. My MIL could potentially work from home to come be here with me, but I don't want her to have to do that if it's not necessary. I feel like she would just be getting me a few meals and caring for my dog (we do have gates and a dog door).

I'm pretty prepared with all of the equipment, freezer prepped meals, raised commode, a wheelchair, recliner, ice machine, a cart with all my meds and post surgery needs, leg lifter. I was just going to have my husband fill my giant water jug and my ice machine before leaving for work and be on my own the rest of my day. I don't know if I'm underestimating how much help I'll need or how much pain I'll be in. The funny thing is I'm an occupational therapist so I feel like I should know the answer to this question but I work with the geriatric population and that's much different lol.

My husband and I are both fence sitters (30 & 31). We are open to kids in the future but have been happy prioritizing our careers and travel. We've both been leaning towards no children for several years. I had a sudden onset knee injury (not really an injury but a severe defect caused by a condition called osteochondritis dissecans). Long story short I've been on medical leave from my healthcare job for the past 4 months and I'm basically sitting around waiting for the call to have this big surgery that could take weeks to months to get scheduled because I'm waiting on a donor match. My husband and I moved across the country 4 years ago and it's been hard being away from our friends and family, but we've been able to distract ourselves from the lonliness by working, hiking, traveling, etc. I've built strong connections with my coworkers, so that has also helped fulfill some of those daily social/connection needs. At the exact same time of the onset of my knee injury, my husband got laid off and we were forced to move for his career. I'm now unemployed and on disability. My days are pretty dull. It's honestly been extremely difficult. I've been reading some self help books, one of them being, "the baby decision." I'm starting to think more about this decision but is it only because I have all of this time on my hands now? I feel like I'm starting to go insane (I'm also ovulating and emotional right now so that doesn't help lol). I'm starting to have more thoughts and emotions that lean towards wanting a child (not right now with my bum knee, but eventually). One reason I haven't been interested in the idea of children is because I couldn't see how it would fit into my day to day life with a career without making me miserable. Part of me wonders if I'm only having these feelings now literally because I'm bored and don't have a life at the moment? I have no social life, I can't work, hardly any hobbies (I'm working on it), and nowhere to direct my energy. I'm fully aware that being bored would be a really idiotic reason to have or want a baby. I'm just genuinely curious if anybody else has had a similar experience?