When all through the house not a creature was stirring and no snacks were allowed.
There are strict rules for people who are about to have surgery; even for Santa Claus, no food or drinks (not even a crumb much too small for a mouse) after midnight the night before!
We arrived in Zurich in the dark at 6am a month ago. It’s dark here in the Arctic nearly all of the time now, so I was really hoping for a peek at the sun.
But before I knew it I was drifting off to sleep and in the twinkling of an eye a nurse was shaking me awake! Of course on the clock Mrs. Claus and my youngest daughter waited in the waiting room for me for five or six hours.
The doctors tell us that reconnecting the two pieces of my broken collar bone went very well and I am in amazing shape considering my age and estimated annual cookie consumption.
All this healing has made me very sleepy this whole month… zzz… even with so much to be done only 63 days before Christmas!
Finally yesterday I was able to start using my right arm a little bit. I carefully oiled my work boots, brushed a few deer out in the barn. They love a good currying just like a horse, especially Godiva who gets in the brambles more than your average reindeer!
It doesn’t sound like much but when I was through I was so tired out.
So I am on the mend, optimistic and very humbled. Somehow I thought a flying accident couldn’t happen to me. No one could believe it could happen to me!
Luckily all is well and I will be fit as a fiddle before you hear the prancing and pawing of each little hoof on your roof!
Much Love,
Your Santa Claus
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Kevin 10.23.11 at 11:22 am
Hi Santa, glad you are doing better! It is an enormous coincident, but I suffered a broken collar bone and surgery recently too! My, I never knew that little bone could hurt so badly! Get well soon, and let me be the first to say, Merry Christmas 2011!!!!