Comments on: Choose Your Life Mondays – The Bored Edition

By: Hayden Tompkins

Hayden Tompkins — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:50:19 +0000

Go you, vent! Sometimes being able to vent is soooo helpful in and of itself.

I will say that the uck! always makes me appreciate the awesome. (Like how I get to go back home in less than 2 months!!!)

By: Viveca from FatigueBeGone

Viveca from FatigueBeGone — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:53 +0000

I too had a surgery this year. I thought it would be like getting a small mole removed which, aside from root canals and wisdom teeth extraction, is the closed I’ve come to “the blade.”

Yikes. I know exactly how you feel.

When I went in for my post opp consult the doc gave me excellent news then wanted to know why I wasn’t happy. I said “Will I ever be able to move my right arm again?”

Long story short I am doing GREAT. Did some physical therapy and I recommend that to anyone for any minor or major surgery.

You will feel GREAT soon too. The body is an amazing healer. It heals even faster is you have a cat or two purring by your side … If you are catless there is a shelter nearby standing by …

Best to you Oh Comfort Queen.

Viveca

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:09:16 +0000

Thanks everyone. And love to you Char as you find your own patience, dear one.

By: char

char — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:37:56 +0000

“I want to get the hell out of this house!!!” Yeah, amen to that one Jen – I so get how that’s true for you right now and why you’d want to get this “show on the road already!”.

You’ve been more than patient with this whole process and found the deep learnings in so many pieces of it.

Don’t you just wanna throw up your hands and just say “enough already!!”?

Maybe that’s just me but I really relate to your impatience – as I too am at an impatient point in my life – so forgive me if I’m just projecting here.

And thank you for the opportunity to vent it with words instead of hauling off and slugging someone here.

xoxo

By: Rebecca Leigh

Rebecca Leigh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:06:46 +0000

Hi Jen,

Relating very strongly to your post-surgical journey. I had emergency abdominal surgery 4 weeks ago.

I found the ‘resting’ stage at the beginning remarkably unrestful (noisy hospitals, upsetting follow-up procedures & all manner of weird body stuff to adjust to like ‘CQG’).

Then I had a day or two that was quite lovely, when that hard stuff was fading, and I felt grateful just to be still and peaceful.

But pretty soon from that peaceful, still place flowed ideas and desires to be ‘doing’ and ‘getting on’!

I found (and am still finding as recovery is still going for me) many lessons in the process. I talked about some of those in the post I’ve linked to in my comment header.

Wishing you well in your recovery.