Health
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Sharing With You…The Week of the Surprise Surgery
Here’s the video to the past week or so leading up to the surprise appendectomy. You can watch it here. All is going well. It’s been a pretty good week of recovery. I’m sandwiched between 1) trying to catch up at work (from year end and from having this issue) and 2) trying to get things done before we head out to Texas. It’s odd living in limbo. And then there is Mom hanging over there in “left wing” giving me long lists of everything she wants to do (I’m her taxi) as if she is afraid we are going to forget about her. She is trying to make me…
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Doc Visit: Post Appendectomy
Everything is fine. My blood counts are good. No infection in the body. Have felt normal today. Still a little tender in spots where incisions are and where appendix was. But I’m more flexible, way less sore, and starting to feel normal. I may try sleeping in my bed starting the weekend. But I’ll still sleep on sofa tonight. I can tell my stamina is coming back 1 week out from surgery. I can’t believe it’s been a week already. I’m starting to think more, plan more, think about food, get excited about things, feel like doing things, etc. So this is good. Mom called me tonight with more that…
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Healing, and a Little Impatience
Good morning. Just a mid-week check in here. My goal this week, aside from getting well, was to get payroll done so my boss doesn’t have to. It was tough I will admit. Monday was longer of a day than I needed to be there. And then back at it on Tuesday. I had the offer to work from home Wednesday but honestly it was going to be much extra work for me and others to pull that off. So it’s easier just work shorter days and get some extra rest in, now that payroll is over. The hard part is not being able to lay down/lay back when I…