Sneeze

Four weeks ago today surgery drastically changed my life, this is a fact not a complaint.

I would like to report that pain is gone, my body has gotten use to the colostomy bag and I'm sleeping soundly but that simply isn't the case. On the plus side, my return to running is in itself indicative of how far I've come but I am impatient.

Yesterday was as close as I've come to a “Normal” day until two thirty five in the afternoon when a rogue sneeze caught me off guard. I've been handling sneezes and coughs pretty well but this one came before I could get a hand down to support my mid-section. Instead of the pain radiating from the incisions, Monos (The Greek God of Pain) awakened nerves deep within to send me quickly to the office couch.

Today is better even though I feel as though I stepped back a week, this will pass.

Mike