I’m the worst patient. I told everyone; my boyfriend, my friends, my family, that I would be good and stay immobile and recuperate after my surgery. Than this happened. Yeah that is less than twenty four hours after I was released from the hospital and yes I am on a boat. I find the water …
Month: July 2015
“Have I mentioned that you are way better than me at bbqing? I think it’s because you don’t catch the chicken on fire” That was a random text I sent to my boyfriend this afternoon. Carly and I had just returned form a spring time ten mile hike to Bluff Lake. It was such a gorgeous spring …
This is probably the most romantic story you have ever heard. My parents met changing bed pans in a nursing home. It was the seventies; most of my friends parents met at Woodstock or Southern California’s famous Venice Beach or one of those other places hippies loved in the seventies. Not my parents. They both …
Today our dogs tried to murder each other. I, of course, tried to stop them from murdering each other. In my effort to remove Candy’s teeth from Carly’s throat I somehow got bit. Do these dogs not realize that I am already in ridiculous pain?! I think I’m safer in the hospital! Luckily a few …
A year ago I was running half marathons. Today I’m using a walker to get around. I want to cry in frustration but I just tell myself I will get better, I will recover. I will hike again. I will run again. Meanwhile, here I sit in a hospital bed, two hours from my home, …