Today is Maggie's Seventeenth Birthday,
I am amazed how she could have grown up so fast while other aspects
of our life seem to pass so slowly. Happy Birthday Maggie, even
though your are growing up you'll always be Mom and Dad's little
girl.
Monday and Tuesday were Doctor days
with follow ups with Doctor Goldstein and Doctor Yang, I'll see
Doctor Berg at the end of the month to complete my three month follow
up. My blood work came back with everything looking good but the test
for cancer markers won't be back for several days. Both Doctors told
me how well I'm doing and that my recovery is ahead of the norm.
Neither felt that the pain I'm having lower in my side was anything
to be concerned about, probably just scar tissue as I suspected. Upon
telling Doctor Goldstein that I first injured it hitting a golf ball
he simple looked at me and said, “Mike, you are a surgeon's
nightmare.”
I logged forty six and a half miles of
running last week, the best training week I've had in over a year.
The week was capped off with a ten and a half mile, three hill run
including twenty three hundred feet of vertical climbing. The miles
were good but I am encouraged since my energy level remained high
throughout the week.
The rest of my recovery keeps slogging
along at a tortoise pace, during one run last week I felt some pain
in my toes only to have them dose off to the half awake state they
have been in for months. My hands are getting better with only my
fingertips having any continuous sensitivity. And “Downstairs”,
well lets just say I'm calling the broker to double up my investment
in Charmin.
This past Saturday I went to photograph
a T-Ball game, our UPS Driver is a coach. What a riot, I had
forgotten how much fun those days were. Watching the kids do almost
everything except playing baseball made me laugh.
My brother Tim will be bringing Mom and
Dad home on Friday. I am planning on heading up there for the evening
to welcome them back.
The Mountain Laurel is Blooming Early. Sure will be pretty around here very soon.
Mike
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