Had my year plus follow up with the hip surgeon, still not "there" yet, new ( Read more... )

while the East Coast is snowed in, it's sunny and warm in PDX. The cherry blossoms are blooming, my front yard is full of daffodils, even the rose bushes that I never got around to cutting back in January are putting out fresh leaves and shoots. Every bright sunny day wrings my heart just a little bit. I feel like I'm failing at life by not ( Read more... )

Last week's big news was finally getting back on my bike. Only for an easy 4 mile, totally flat, round trip to the grocery store and home. We've been having this insanely unseasonable warm spring weather the last couple weeks--sunny blue skies and cherry blossoms blooming while the east coast is buried under feet of snow--and I've been meaning to ( Read more... )

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Hit another landmark in recovery yesterday in the pool: flipturns. Only 5 because that dratted umbilical scar started acting up enough to make me go back to an awkward "push off the wall as though it's gonna be a length of backstroke then twist back to freestyle after a couple of strokes" at each wall, but 5 flipturns is better than I've done ( Read more... )

As of yesterday, I can now drive with just my right foot again! Before surgery I started driving my automatic with both feet- right for the gas and left for the brake, because moving my right foot back and forth hurt too dang much. Just handling the gas pedal with the right foot also hurt quite significantly but relieving some of the pressure ( Read more... )

guess what this gal got in the mail from seanan_mcguire?

*bounce*

*joy*

First I get Symbiont on my nook. Now this eagerly awaited most perfect swag. (Wait, is it swag if it was part of a give away? Or is it most perfect gift? Either way, i'm pretty jubilant.)

I have so much wonderful (re)reading in my future.


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By which I'm really starting to feel like I'll never be back to "normal" again. I know that I will. Only a few more months...but I'm still so tired all the time. It does help to look back at my journal entries a few months ago and put that into perspective. I'm now sleeping about 11 hours a night and zero naps...so that's already way better ( Read more... )

Yesterday was an energy disaster. Barely hauled myself to PT and the grocery store then home, did some egg decorating, had a nice long hot bath and stretched. Somehow all of that took 12 hours ( Read more... )

I can say today that I survived my first week back to work after two surgeries! Had a follow up appointment with the hip surgeon on Thursday and she approved me to go back to work on limited hours: 4 hour shifts 4 days a week (my normal work week is 4 days, so that's not a limitation but it does prevent me from working overtime or being forced in ( Read more... )