Recovery Month II

It has been a trip no doubt. Just another new experience for me. In the morning I get all energetic and I get ready to do stuff, then reality sets in, and the day becomes a bit more difficult to move around. I think today it's the first day that I could actually walk all the way down the street where I live and walk back up. I live on a steep Street so I walk up an incline. But I made it. Of course, I have two large saphenous veins that I know missing. So if I don't walk much my feet will swell up with water. Just goes to show me how badly we need our body parts eh?

No doubt about how to sign our body to function perfectly in our three-dimensional world. I'm still getting chest pains but it's not from the heart it's from the incisions and where the titanium clips are located at. I guess it's a matter of getting used to them. I also have to get used to the scars on my chest. It feels like I've been abducted by aliens and they put their mark on me like a tattoo. And it's a good thing that I am going to the English congregation. Because I'm pretty sure that somebody from the Spanish sees the mark on my chest then I'll be sitting in front of a JC trying to explain that it's not a tattoo is scarring from open heart surgery :-) You guys know how it goes.

I got one more month to go. And I also am attending cardiopulmonary rehab twice a week. I cannot do all the machines because of the neurological problem that I have and a brain disorder with has extended where I have a gait imbalance (I guess I won't be able to ski again). I am still using the special implants in my shoes to avoid falling flat on my face. I still want to go back to work. But I am unable to pick up more than 25 lb. Hopefully eventually with the rehab, I get some weight training as well. I need it for work.

In the meantime, I keep myself busy by reading, and I get on the treadmill a few times. I have been attending the Cherry Hill Congregation meeting in person. But I have to sit in the back room close to the bathroom because of the Lasix. It seems that my body carries more water than a camel. From the neurological side. My left hand started to shake so I tried practicing the guitar. However, my right hand my pinky, and my ringer go numb but we shall see with the neurologist.

Overall I really can't complain cuz I know some people out there got it worse than me. Anyway, I will return back to my books now.

Have a great day.

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