Engaging

09 August, 2007

Sleep is a girl's best friend.

So it has been a little over 2 weeks since surgery. I have made it into work every morning of this week and have been to physical therapy once. I have been working from home in the afternoons and then just sleeping a lot. I honestly don't think I can get enough sleep right now, which to me means that I am healing. I had a bit of a scare on Tuesday because I started running a fever (100 degrees) and the incisions were all VERY HOT. I was getting worried that I was starting to get an infection but it felt better yesterday and today and my temperature has been around 99, so I am pretty comfortable with that.

Physical therapy wasn't as bad on Monday as I expected but that was probably because it was just my first session and they didn't do too much. Just wanted to assess where I am up to this point. I did manage to bend my knee on my own up to 90 degrees. I was proud! They also gave me a bunch of exercise to do at home, which I have been doing and they HURT LIKE HELL. It is unbelieveable. And it is a bit upsetting because I just have so far to go before my knee bends normally. Ugh. But I guess I knew this was coming. I have a new appreciation and understanding of what real surgery is like...and it sucks.

I did find out my roommate from undergrad is pregnant and it is SO exciting! She and her husband have been trying ever since we got back from the Derby (that was my rule...no none drinkers on the Derby trip!) and she called me yesterday and let me know. Woohoo! I am excited for her and also to have someone else go through it before me and give me all the details. We did this with our weddings too...she got married a little over a year before me, so she got to tell me all my fears, etc. were normal.

Football starts soon. 3 weeks from tomorrow I head to Blacksburg for the first football game versus ECU. I am excited but also anxious. I know there will be a lot of the shooting for the first game and it is the first time VT has gotten to celebrate about something in awhile but it is amazing how raw those feelings still are. My mom said that her friends still start tearing up when they talk about it and my church in B'burg has had to bring in counselors in for professors, wives, etc. who just aren't moving forward and are getting so anxious about the upcoming semester. I have been back home a few times since the shooting but it is still such a sickening, overwhelming guteral feeling that comes over me when I think about it, so I am dreading have to open up all those wounds again.

Second physical therapy session today at 2:15. They said that I may be able to get on the bike today. I know it will hurt so much, but I will be thrilled to be able to ride again. The faster I recover and get back to the gym, the happier I'll be. And the sooner I get off crutches!!

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