The 1040 Window

Sunday night I could barely sleep, I was so excited!  On Monday I had a doctor’s appointment and was planning on having the doctor pull out my PIC line (basically a semi-permanent IV that goes from my heart, through a vein, and out at my upper arm; I have tubes coming out of my arm).

On one hand, it was not too big of a deal, because the PIC was not much of a bother and I was so used to having it.  On the other hand, it was a big milestone!  In a way, my PIC was the last, very tangible, remnant of the hospital.  In addition to that, pulling it out also officially ended my pain medicine (YES!!!), benadryl, and zofran.  Some exciting stuff.

It was not much fun getting only 3 hours of sleep but Monday was a GREAT day anyway!

The other evening I was taking a walk with my kids (getting my daily exercise!). We were having a very nice time with Michaela and Christopher laughing and running circles around me (literally). Well I was feeling pretty confident since I have seen quite a bit of improvement in my walking ability in the last few months and we were just plain having such a nice time.

Then a crazy thought occured to me. “I wonder what would happen if I tried to run?” So, being in the mood I was in, I did. I tried.

I cannot describe to you what it was like for two reasons. One, I have never experienced anything like that before. Two, it only lasted about 1 second so I did not have enough time to examine what was going on! All I can tell you is… it hurt. And I definitely can not run; it just is not physically possible yet. Now I can get around walking pretty good, at this point, I just had no idea how much of a different game running is.

So no running for now. But that day will come!