Slowly, slowly, slowly
I'm frustrated with how slow recovery is. Okay, okay so I at first thought I'd go back to work the day after I got out of the hospital! Silly me! Then I thought, well, I'll give myself a week off - that's MORE than enough time to recover from ANYTHING.
Here I am, three weeks later, still needing my hot water bottle and fainting couch more often than I'd like to admit. (Good thing I own a fainting couch!)
Food-wise I'm getting more diverse. Had pho ga the other day. Mmmmm. Split the bowl with hubby, who ate all the onions and herbs for me so I could just eat the rice noodles and chicken and broth.
I feel cold a lot of the time. Maybe it's just being skinnier.
Speaking of skinniness - getting used to my new body. My mother-in-law gave me four of her old dresses that she judged "too young" for a lady of her years to wear anymore. Now, for years I've been trying to explain to my mother-in-law that she's a size 2 and I am a size 12 and never the twain shall meet - but since we wear the same bra size she thinks we're the same.
Well, I lost that argument permanently now. Here I am in a dress Ha had custom-made for herself and it fits perfectly. I really like this one, too. Yellow is my favorite color. The top fabric is this filmy, transparent floral print with gleaming gold floral embroidery here and there and the lower fabric is a buttery peach satin.
Oh - but I gained my first post-surgery pounds! I'm so happy. Ever since leaving the hospital, every time I weighed myself I was EVEN SKINNIER. But not this week. I have bounced back from a low of 131 to 135. More diverse diet for the win.
... there is always the possibility that this is just water-weight as my period is due pretty soon, but I choose to believe it is a positive sign. Hey, at least the steady decreasing stopped.
I still have bruises on my arms from the IVs.
Shelli wants me to bike ride from campus to Fairmont-Warrensville Circle on Tuesday. I'm scared. I'm not cleared to exercise yet. She says "It's not exercise, it's transportation" but I'm like... yeah, that time I walked two miles and ended up inflaming my surgery and had to spend the next day in bed??
However, I am hoping to take my bike out this weekend, clean her up and fill the tires and take a toodle around the block at least and see how it feels.
I want to work full days next week. It'll be a relief for Brian if I can bike commute again. I know it's hard for him to be driving in and out of university circle all the time to take me to work.
Yes, I'm trying to write enough entry to go the length of the photo. Otherwise LJ formats weirdly.
What else? Some of y'all might have wide monitors. Hrm. I'm re-reading my old novel "The Gods Awoke" finding my word choices were often too academic. That's what you get when you write a novel in college. :P Lightly editing as I go. May tweak or overhaul things more majorly after I finish. It has looooong chapters. I set the chapters up as 'days'. So the action of the novel covers ten chapters and ten days, but with all the sub-plots, those are some long days to read. May cut them in half. Feels good to be working on a novel again.