The End of the Tail - The Beginning of a New Journey
Well, I hope this is the end of the tail, because truth be known, I don’t want to go through this ever again. 2 surgeries this year to take care of a problem that began in 2006. Enough is enough. Yesterday I went to the doctor and had him once again cut out the cyst, this time, instead of just stitching closed the skin at the top, he packed it with 2 layers of cow cut and stitched it on 3 layers. In 10 days I go back, he’ll remove the outer stitches, the inner ones will dissolve. The cow gut will encourage my own body to fill grow back and fill in the gap that was left by digging a hole in me (something that wasn’t done last time). He’ll put steristrips on me once he removes the stitches. Once it’s ok for those to be pulled off, I can begin swimming, but no running or cycling. I’ll be glad when I can do something more than just yoga and upper body strength training. Up till this point, I’ve not even been able to do crunches for my belly and I won’t be able to return to those either until the steristrips are gone.
As I was putting the little sticker reminder of my next doctor’s appt in my date book I saw that it’s 2 days before the Danskin Triathlon (June 29), I started flipping through my book to see what else I had had hopes of competing in but will now be unable to. There’s the bottomless lakes triathlon in Roswell on July 12th, there’s the City of Santa Fe Tri on July 19th, there’s the run for the cure next weekend (the 15th). If I’m lucky I’ll make it to the 10k Alien Chase in Roswell on July 5th. But even then I may be pushing myself too hard. I’m not sure I can do another 10k without having trained and only 3 weeks after surgery in a rather uncomfortable place.
But enough talk of all that I can’t do. There are some things I can do and I no longer have “exercising/training” as an excuse not to do them. I can do a complete round of basal testing. A month or so ago I started it, but I got all of 3 nights and didn’t do any daytime basal testing because I didn’t want to not be able to go for walks, etc. I’m hoping that since I’m out of the game (in a sense) for a minimum of 4 weeks at this point that I’ll be able to get all my insulin rates under control. It will help me immensely when I do get back to training if I don’t have to fight with my blood sugars because my basal rates are off.
I also intend on putting some good habits into place. Eating at the same time every day for all meals, eating healthier, taking all the vitamins I currently refuse to take (because it’s one more thing I have to do that I’d rather not), getting those 9 blood tests in every day (6am, 8, 10, 12pm, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, despite my strong opinions about how worthless checking every 2 hours is). I need to start putting good habits into place so that I can be on the right foot when I get back to training. It’s important to me.
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June 18th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Heal fast, and good luck with all your goals!
June 19th, 2008 at 5:51 am
I really hope you get better fast, but good for you for finding something productive to do with your time!
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