Thursday May 5, 2005
In addition to brilliant morning sunshine the past couple of days, I have been gladdened to be arising without extraordinary effort much before noon. Why this should make me feel good about things is debatable. It gives me a much longer time to fill with less than productive (IMO) activities. I think it's the fact that I am up before most of the noise of daily city life and have a moment or two to enjoy what view I have, listening to the birds and sipping coffee.
[ASIDE: The construction guys have arrived to work on the backyard just now - bye bye peace and quiet. It'll be over soon. The whole project that is. At least that's what I keep hearing!]
Most of my medical appointments are at the Civic which pre-surgery was about a 10-15 minute walk from here. Jeff drove me to the MRI last week and I'd intended to walk back, both for exercise and so he wouldn't have to wait. That didn't work out as planned, so my goal for this week is to be able to at least walk to the appointment with the surgeon tomorrow. I'm learning to anticipate unknown procedures these days and will walk back again ONLY if they haven't beat me up in someway or otherwise worn me out. OR if the surgeon gives me hell for walking too far. Unlikely I think.
As a test run I first tried this on Tuesday. Poor judgement caused me to fill in a bored hour in the early evening with this "how-close-can-I-get-in-30-minutes" experiment. My hip complained the rest of the night. I made it to the Parkdale Clinic, in under a half hour though - yay!
Yesterday I did the same walk to get some bloodtests done. But I did it in the early afternoon. Much better plan. And I stopped in at the hospital mall area to have a Chai Latte and banana bread and rest before the return trip. A short rest upon returning to the abode and all was well. I did give in on the no pain meds situation though. Just a 1/4 of the Rx does the trick and doesn't make me goofy either.
Other than watching a bit of TV I've mostly been researching and plotting a blog for my daughter.
George Carlin quote for today:
When you think about it, attention deficit disorder makes a lot of sense. There isn't a whole lot worth paying attention to in this country.0) { ?>