counting days

[morgi]

Next Saturday is the 4-week post-op mark. Three days after that is one month post-op. Hopefully on one of those dates I will:

• no longer have to avoid restaurants with people in them (we have an Olive Garden gift card I'm dying to use)
  
• be allowed to drive again
  
• no longer have to measure the liquids I take in and put out.
  

I picked up Q*Bert today

Comments

[yipeeladybug]

That's so awesome!

It took me 5 wks to be able to drive...mainly b/c the seat-belt bothered me. But I hope that you'll get the ok to drive soon!

[morgi]

I think they said it's usually between four and six weeks that they let you drive again. It's not a big problem, since Charles doesn't have a traditional nine-to-five job he can drive me around, but I want to be able to drive myself around a bit.

[kfops]

I don't think cat-picking-up can be avoided for very long. Though it sounds like your recovery is going quite well.

And thanks for reminding me about making bread!! We're all out, and a loaf-on-the-go always makes the house feel warmer and smell great.

[morgi]

Bread machines are wonderful things! Ours is even supposed to have a setting to make jam, though we haven't tried that.

Bread Machine

[mebil]

Really? Mebil not know.

Re: Bread Machine

[kfops]

I think ours has a jam/sauce/pet setting, too. I know I've never used this setting, and I don't think Amanda has either.

In some ways it frightens me, but I can't quite figure out why.

[arafel]

I can't resist picking up my cat for more than five minutes. I don't know how you've lasted three weeks.

Mmm, bread.

Happy soon-to-be anniversary!

[morgi]

Q wasn't too excited when I picked her up--she immediately wanted to be on the control panel of the treadmill. But she's just so cute, with such soft fur (apparently her daddy was a bunny). I've been picking up other heavy things, so I figured a cat was good--and if I need to start building up my strength again, what better way than lifting cats?

[atlas4711]

Lifting things that don't leave scratches and hair when they don't want to be picked up? (Does your cat color-code the fur he sheds so it will clash with whatever you're wearing? I have a tuxedo cat and I swear she can shed her fur at will...)

[morgi]

Our guys are all front-declawed, which helps some, but they still have those strong back feet. We wear mostly dark clothing, and the big cat is of course white so his fur shows up everywhere. The middle one is grey and the little one is tabby/tortoiseshell. So they don't need to make much of an effort to have their fur show up on everything.

Yeah, I guess a non-moving twelve-pound object would have been better than a wiggly unwilling twelve-pound object.