State of the Meri address.
I r knackered today and it's been a while since I updated! So . . hopefully in brief.
1. Kitties can now use cat door - they just choose not to. They will use it to come inside, but not to go out. Kitties are naughty!
2. I started back at work last Monday, supposedly full time. But I spent all Monday bouncing around and not pacing myself and ended up taking Tuesday off, which caused my manager to ring me and ask if I'd overdone it and would I like part time hours. And I was all "YES PLEASE" while thinking to myself "I suggested this to you six weeks ago and you gave me a flat out no!" But of course, in the meantime, everyone has had to do without me for six weeks . . . and I get the feeling they really REALLY missed me . . . because they were all genuinely over the moon to see me back. (The two women working reception while I was gone weren't the easiest people to get along with . . hehehe. So nice to be loved). I've also volunteered to be health and safety rep . . . cos that way I can make them keep the damned doors locked!
3. Had my six week post op check up - was very very brief which I took to mean I was doing well and there was nothing that needed major changes or anything wrong. He poked at my scar and said, yes, that middle part of it is a bit hard - probably necrotic fat tissue and it might cause trouble later on, but didn't say what. He said I can cautiously try any food I want now (and I can now eat moist chicken i.e. smoked chicken without much problem) as long as I stick to 90ml 3x a day. I am also officially 22 kg down. Which made him warn me about losing too fast and I'm like "WELL YOU DID IT!" ::grins::
4. I have spent the day out in the garden. Oddly today is the first day I've felt like I'm really enjoying being a home owner, because really it's the first day I've focussed solely on doing house stuff. I got up early (for me), hung out laundry, then dug another little tiny patch of the garden - put compost on it and blood and bone, then on both of the tiny patches I've dug (the two either side of the front steps) I've planted my dwarf rose bushes. I wanted to do this six weeks ago but never had time before the op and couldn't after. So YAY for planting them. THen I was knackered so I had a rest. Then lunch. Then I loaded up the car and went to the rubbish tip (yay, one load of cardboard boxes gone at least). I looked around their recycling shop, just because I like looking through the rubbish other people have dumped that is still useful. And really, looking around the place you could get a lot of stuff really cheap and after giving it a good wash, noone would know where you'd gotten it from! Plates and cutlery and all sorts of household stuff. Furniture you could do up. Kiddies books galore. All sorts. It's fun!
Anyway, after the dump I went to get mulch for the roses. Only it turns out that the mulch is in bags that are too heavy for me to lift. I got five bags of it, and I can't get it out of the car! I did manage to get one bag out so I could spread it on the garden, by tipping half of it into a big bucket and carrying it up in two parts. But even that was almost too heavy and I don't want to use the other bags yet. OMG SO HEAVY - I totally knackered myself doing it, and I need to stop doing stuff that requires heavy lifting because I'm still not supposed to due to the risk of a hernia. But I want to do stuff like that now and it's frustrating I can't. But I'm really tired now and sitting on the sofa and my scar is sore and itchy because all of the activity and lifting I've done. I'm so bad.
5. World of Warcraft is frustrating me because I can't get the hang of jousting. ::sighs:: Whoever heard of jousting on a big overgrown ostrich anyway!
1. Kitties can now use cat door - they just choose not to. They will use it to come inside, but not to go out. Kitties are naughty!
2. I started back at work last Monday, supposedly full time. But I spent all Monday bouncing around and not pacing myself and ended up taking Tuesday off, which caused my manager to ring me and ask if I'd overdone it and would I like part time hours. And I was all "YES PLEASE" while thinking to myself "I suggested this to you six weeks ago and you gave me a flat out no!" But of course, in the meantime, everyone has had to do without me for six weeks . . . and I get the feeling they really REALLY missed me . . . because they were all genuinely over the moon to see me back. (The two women working reception while I was gone weren't the easiest people to get along with . . hehehe. So nice to be loved). I've also volunteered to be health and safety rep . . . cos that way I can make them keep the damned doors locked!
3. Had my six week post op check up - was very very brief which I took to mean I was doing well and there was nothing that needed major changes or anything wrong. He poked at my scar and said, yes, that middle part of it is a bit hard - probably necrotic fat tissue and it might cause trouble later on, but didn't say what. He said I can cautiously try any food I want now (and I can now eat moist chicken i.e. smoked chicken without much problem) as long as I stick to 90ml 3x a day. I am also officially 22 kg down. Which made him warn me about losing too fast and I'm like "WELL YOU DID IT!" ::grins::
4. I have spent the day out in the garden. Oddly today is the first day I've felt like I'm really enjoying being a home owner, because really it's the first day I've focussed solely on doing house stuff. I got up early (for me), hung out laundry, then dug another little tiny patch of the garden - put compost on it and blood and bone, then on both of the tiny patches I've dug (the two either side of the front steps) I've planted my dwarf rose bushes. I wanted to do this six weeks ago but never had time before the op and couldn't after. So YAY for planting them. THen I was knackered so I had a rest. Then lunch. Then I loaded up the car and went to the rubbish tip (yay, one load of cardboard boxes gone at least). I looked around their recycling shop, just because I like looking through the rubbish other people have dumped that is still useful. And really, looking around the place you could get a lot of stuff really cheap and after giving it a good wash, noone would know where you'd gotten it from! Plates and cutlery and all sorts of household stuff. Furniture you could do up. Kiddies books galore. All sorts. It's fun!
Anyway, after the dump I went to get mulch for the roses. Only it turns out that the mulch is in bags that are too heavy for me to lift. I got five bags of it, and I can't get it out of the car! I did manage to get one bag out so I could spread it on the garden, by tipping half of it into a big bucket and carrying it up in two parts. But even that was almost too heavy and I don't want to use the other bags yet. OMG SO HEAVY - I totally knackered myself doing it, and I need to stop doing stuff that requires heavy lifting because I'm still not supposed to due to the risk of a hernia. But I want to do stuff like that now and it's frustrating I can't. But I'm really tired now and sitting on the sofa and my scar is sore and itchy because all of the activity and lifting I've done. I'm so bad.
5. World of Warcraft is frustrating me because I can't get the hang of jousting. ::sighs:: Whoever heard of jousting on a big overgrown ostrich anyway!