A clear demarcation of a cold front rolling in to Charlevoix, Michigan.
Charlevoix Cold Front
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Well, it hasn’t quite been a month since my last post, but close. It has been a busy month. I turned 40 and then the next day had my gallbladder removed. It wasn’t an emergency surgery, it was planned. If it helps get rid of the pain that I have had since a week before Christmas, I will consider it a good birthday present.
I am 3 days post-op and feeling generally pretty good. I had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. I had five small holes cut in me, the biggest in my belly button. Fortunately, with the four previous lower abdominal surgeries, I have almost no feeling around my belly button. I am mostly just swollen, bloated and a bit sore.
I haven’t exercised in a week and I can feel it. I am going to go for a short walk shortly to help keep things moving. I’ll try to get better at posting, especially now that I actually have the blog working the way it is supposed to.
Dim-witted
It’s amazingly hard to figure out why I am feeling dim-witted when I am feeling dim-witted. A week or so ago, I had a day where my brain was really slow. This isn’t all that unusual given all of the medications that I take so I didn’t think too much about it. Partly because it was hard to think. The next morning I woke up with the beginnings of a migraine. Within an hour it was on me like a freight train but at least I felt a little smarter. I figured out that my stupidity was a harbinger of the headache to come.
This morning I once again was slow brained but no migraine. Yet. It took me an hour or two but I then I remembered the association and went ahead and took my Maxalt and Motrin. Within about 30 minutes, my brain was back to firing on all cylinders, albeit slowly. Now I’ll wait and see if I have thwarted the migraine or just made the preamble more tolerable.
Getting in Shape
I am on day 4 of the Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred. I am also on day 3 of no Mountain Dew. That may actually be the hardest part. I am NOT giving up caffeine, I’m not a masochist. Mostly I am trying to break my addiction to processed sugar. Why I am doing it at the same time as the 30 Day Shred? I don’t know. Maybe I am a masochist.
I am really not a morning person and getting up even earlier in the morning to exercise is not something I enjoy but so far it isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. This morning my four-year-old was up at 5 so I didn’t even have to wait for my alarm to go off.
I’m not sure how long I’ll stick with this but I am going to try. My track record isn’t great for following through on things like this. I do have some motivation with the fact that I turn 40 in 26 days and I’d like to keep it up until then. I WILL have a Mountain Dew on my birthday. Everyone is allowed a vice, right?
My First Post
Here I go with my blog. I thought at first that I should wait until the site was just the way I wanted it before going live. Then I thought, “Hey, this is MY site. I can do anything I want!” So here it goes. More to follow.