and now, frustration

[antithiscully]

I've been doing increasingly better every day since the surgery 1 week ago. I've been able to do more things for longer and have to rest less as a result. My glasses still bother me, they still feel too strong, so I go without them when seeing isn't crucial (eg riding in the car, walking around the house, or typing). I don't like that i can't rub

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[snmnstrz21]

but that painful nostalgia of "this is what I had done and how far I've fallen." It's distressing.

I'm trying to find this post that a blogger I read made back when she was training for her third marathon and ended up with a femoral neck stress fracture. I can't find it and maybe it was more of a gestalt thing than one post anyway. But basically as she recovered she had to come to terms with the fact that she had a new baseline. She couldn't keep comparing where she was now to where she was before. And I'm sure you learned all that in all those classes you've had to take :-)

[antithiscully]

HURK. That makes me feel a little better :)

I forgot to mention that the last thing I did at the gym on Monday was walk a lap around the track, and it was so difficult to focus while moving that I was glad I chose to cut back the running in general because if I had been forced to stop, I'd've been even more upset. So there's some sort of upside.

Plus now I'm doing many more functional activities like weeding, mulching, housecleaning, sewing, etc., that exercise in general will have to take a back seat now that it's... nice? -r? out? yeah :)