The Best is Yet to Come

Don’t blame it on sunshine
Don’t blame it on moonlight
Don’t blame it on good times
Blame it on the boogie

Damn boogies. Hallelujah and woohoo, the last big hunk of stitch/boogie is GONE!!!!!! No more boogies  - I can breathe freely!!!!!! About damn time, too.

I’m back in the gym, I’m more motivated than I’ve been in months and my sinus problems appear to be resolved.

Life is pretty good. I only expect it to get better from here.

woot!

Yes I feel it getting better, better every day!

Fallin rain
outside my window
but all in all I know
its gettin’ better every day
soon the sun will shine
through my window
when its gonna come
you know i really, couldnt say
but i know, its gettin better
every day

It’s another rainy day in Chicago, but I’m in super spirits. My sinus problems are going away - I haven’t had one single headache since my surgery aside from the starting twinge of one that went away quickly with some sudafed. Still recovering and there are still some stitches inside my nose, but every day I feel better and better.

Tonight it’s back to the gym for me, and even though I’m going to be careful not to overdo things because there is still some pressure in my head, I’ll be happy to be back in the swing of things. Going to do a light chest/tricep workout with some cardio.

Breakfast was oatmeal and coffee with a scoop of protein added to it, skipped mid-morning snack, lunch is grilled chicken breast with rice which I’ll have again near the end of the workday before heading home. Not sure what dinner will be, but there will be a post workout serving of vanilla low-fat yogurt with protein added to it.

Now I need to work on getting my butt out of bed early in the morning.

I’m burning I’m burning I’m burning……

**** my nose.

This hurts. My sinuses burn right now - first time since my surgery that I’ve felt like this.

I feel like I got punched in the face and that my nose is the size of a damn football. Sooooo not cool.

My recovery has been pretty smooth for the most part, except some big ol’ nasty gooey blood/snotwad came out of my nose yesterday and it’s like the floodgates were opened because there’s only been more of the same since then. I’ve had more glop coming out of my head today than I did the day of my procedure. It’s pretty nasty.

Still eating mushy food since chewing is not exactly something I should be doing right now. I really miss meat.

Can’t bend or lift anything yet….so that sucks.

The only nice part is the company I’ve had since Wednesday. My parents came down on Wednesday to take me for the surgery and stayed with me overnight, then a friend came over Thursday and fixed the closet shelf that fell (I’d normally fix it myself, but can’t lift), one of my best girlfriends came down on Friday and stayed overnight and took me shopping in the morning for a new bed that my mom decided to buy me and I went to lunch yesterday with another friend. I’ve been quite the social butterfly, LOL.

Post-op and bed delivery are on Thursday, so I’m only working a half day. Hopefully the doc will get the rest of the crud out of my nose that’s around the stitches and incision and tell me that all is going well.

In the meantime, it’s mushy food, antibiotics and Vicodin for me.