Staying busy, although I slept in today

Two days till surgery and two days from five weeks since the last. I've officially shed all the water weight I had from swelling after the surgery... I'm down to 213 lbs from an original 328 3-4 years ago, so I've lost a total of 115 lbs. The incision is healing really well. Halfway through my leave, and I am not bored but am rested. Yesterday, I made time to study Latin both from my Wheelock text and from Mango via my library card. I am very rusty, and I used to be pretty proficient. I've done things I never make the time for, like that. A lot has been appointments and that range of motion bike, and we watch 'Desperate Housewives' at dinner every night but Friday (there's always some show; this is just the current one, because we'd been watching another Marc Cherry show prior, and I really enjoyed it, so I said I'd give it a try). Last night I was up to 3 AM updating the 'what to do if anything happens to me' document, not to be morbid, but to be practical, and I didn't manage to before the first surgery. With the exception of one piece of information I need to call on tomorrow, I'm finished. I'm also going to call the ROMTech rep back who left me a message during PT on Friday, as she thought she was delivering a device and I just need a new patient number and know how to put it in, since I already have one, from what I've been told. I did call Saturday and left a message, but I want to make sure she got it since the surgery is the next day. Not being able to do business today is making it harder... I had no clue about the holiday until it was mentioned at PT. My days all run together. But for those of you who have been working hard, enjoy your time off!!!

Up

at 5:30 am just as my roommate went to bed. Neither of us has the best sleeping ability on a good day, both of us deal with insomnia. My problem, I think, is while I went to bed fairly early, i had quite a bit of pain and had trouble sleeping, so I finally broke down and took some medicine, which messes with my sleep cycle, melatonin or not. Besides, I'm used to getting up between 5:30-6:30 for work still.

So here I am, my light alarm clock just coming on. I should probably get on the bike. But no, that is not happening this early.

Before I went to bed, I made my first actual to-do list since my surgery. It goes something like this:

• do morning PT exercises
• brush teeth/clean up
• get dressed
• take morning meds
• do internet jigsaw puzzle #1 in morning [https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/]
• listen to music
• return a text from a friend in Cicero, Illinois
• ride ROMTech bike #1 (8:00 am)
• read from book about public libraries
• get my friend to take my hamper of dirty clothes out to the washer
• do my laundry
• blog, including back entries where I never mentioned doing this surgery [I am so behind; I haven''t posted since June. I have kept this blog since October of 2001.]
• ice!
• stay ahead of the pain
• remember to use the knee brace on the non-operant (right) knee since I keep forgetting
• ride ROMTech bike #2 (10:30 am)
• set up bill pay to pay rent/grocery fund
• ride ROMTech #3 (1:00 pm)
• do puzzle #2 for the afternoon
• eat lunch
• do midday PT exercises
• return a missed phone call from yesterday
• have friend bring me the clean clothes in a hamper
• fold the clean clothes [these include the linens for Sabbath dinner tomorrow]
• ride ROMTech # 4 (3:30pm)
• do puzzle #3 for the evening
• ride ROMTech # 5 (6:00 pm)
• eat dinner
• watch episodes 1 and 2 of season 2 of 'Desperate Housewives'
• take evening meds
• do nightly PT exercises

It's not what I would call thrilling, but it'll keep me occupied. 🙂 I'm going to try something new tomorrow and cut the time in between the ROMTech sessions from three hours to 1.5 in an effort to get them knocked out in a reasonable time. We'll see. That may be too much at once. But I don't have any appointments tomorrow. If you're wondering why I am doing laundry rather than my roommate, there is a perfectly non-logical story involving oaths to long-dead relatives about that going back over two decades that I won't get into but suffice to say that I am perfectly capable of putting clothes in and out of a washer and dryer, especially if I open the other utility room door (I don't normally bother, I just open the dryer and pull things out by kind of leaning over, but there is a bolt that goes into the floor where the door in front does actually swing fully open so you have full access). I just can't carry at the moment. Actually, my clothes are in a rolling cart, but still....I'll ask him to do it, just to be safe.

Okay, it's 6:30 am. I'm not sure if I'm sleepy or no.t. Maybe I should start my day with a little music. Have a lovely morning.

I've never really watched 'Desperate Housewives'

although it sounds like a fun show and I'd like to, I'd just be lost since I didn't follow it from the beginning. But I have a couple of friends who really like it and give me tidbits of information about what's going on in the shows they're watching (I don't think they're the new ones, but rather those in syndication). So I thought I'd take a quiz to see which Housewife I'd turn out to be.

From what little I know, I guess this is not that surprising. I am certainly not Gabrielle, but I came out pretty even on the rest of them, with Lynette edging out the others.

Your result for The Desperate Housewives Test...

You scored 50 Bree, 25 Gabrielle, 59 Lynette, and 50 Susan!

From your score the highest score is who you are most like.

Take The Desperate Housewives Test at HelloQuizzy