Today's improving post-surgery progress

[celticdragonfly]

Yesterday was a big day - the doctor's appointment, the long car ride, a couple errands - and then in the evening we went out and did a Walmart run for various stuff. I was exhausted.

This morning I woke up more cheerful than I have for a long time. I was stiff and sore, sure, but no more than I had been the morning before. I haven't gone anywhere today, but it's been a good day. I spent more time downstairs, I went up and downstairs a good bit more than I had been. I helped Kathy get laundry folded and put away. I played with the kids more, even got out my drums and showed them to Kathy and the kids and got the old kid drum out for them, after we got into a discussion on music and rhythm and dancing and music training for the kids. That was fun. The kid drum is like a small borran, and Jamie was wearing it on his right arm like a shield, and playing it with the other hand. He looked like a little lefthanded Viking. We went outside for a while and blew bubbles.

I am really starting to believe that I *will* be one of the ones with a good outcome and I will get my health back. Not yet, I still have a long way to go, but I am improving. And it's leaving me motivated to want to DO so much. I'm beginning to realize how MUCH the constant pain and lack of deep sleep have worn me down, wiped me out, and left me foggy brained. I feel like I've lost all that time. Now I want to start new educational projects, get more done on my fiber arts (well, I always want to do that), I want to get back to my harp music, go ahead and start trying to learn piano, get back to swimming, get back to dancing. Somehow. There's LOTS of logistical problems, especially as the mother of small children. But I want to do these things, a lot.

Comments

[taerin.livejournal.com]

And don't forget your new beading project. :-)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Right - my new beading project. I had forgotten about that. We had that lovely long discussion about it, and I got pretty much certain what I want to do about it - the purple fossil beads, gold spacers, and the larger ones to be gemstone beads - but then I decided it would be best to go look at Hobby Lobby and see if I can find that tigertail stuff there and not need to order the big spool of accuwhatsis just for one project. And I should see what beads they have, too. Except I haven't been THAT much up for errands. Maybe we could go today, though. It could be fun. I suspect I will have to order at least *some* of what I need from Firemountaingems. The tigertail stuff still needs crimping beads and pliers to fasten it off, right?

[taerin.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does, but you can get both the beads and the pliers at Hobby Lobby.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Hmph... feeling rebellious at the idea of buying specialized pliers for one use.

[taerin.livejournal.com]

Well, you don't really have to. Needle-nose pliers will do the job nearly as well, and you probably already have some around the house.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Two of them, actually.

[filkferengi]

Woo-hoo! I'm glad you're feeling so much better. The moment when you first feel that you'll actually get well is rather magical [and handled very well by Frances Hodgson Burnett in _The Secret Garden_, among other places].