Happy Friday!!

Happy Friday everyone!

I learned my lesson this morning. I had set my alarm to go off at 6:30, well it did but I wasn’t ready to get up. So I decided to set it again for 7:00 or so I thought. For some odd reason I woke up, looked at the clock and it was 8:10 and I had to be out the door at 8:30 to make it on time! YIKES!!! I went back and looked at my alarm, apparently it doesn’t do you again to set your alarm for 7:00 PM! Oops! Flew out of bed, got dressed, brushed my teeth did my morning routine and even had time to spare for a quick bowl of cereal. I am proud to say I made it to rehab on time! Whoop whoop!

My PTA was out sick today, so I only did cardio workouts with my respiratory therapist. Started out with our normal warm up exercise, on to the Neustep for twenty minutes, then moved onto the treadmill for a nice long 20 minute walk. The RT added incline to make my new breathers work! Which i what we want to do! After therapy Kerry and I had a couple of errands to run, then we came back to the apartment for a quick snack. Then it was out the door again with my dad! We decided to zone out and paint pottery! My dad painted a Rat Fink platter, which is going to look AWESOME when it’s fired in the kiln!! Rat Fink for life!!! I decided to paint a dog bowl for Callie. We will see how it looks when it’s finished, I think I zoned out just a little too much and got carried away. Oh well, I really enjoyed sending the day with my dad. I really did miss him while he was gone. We let our creative sides flow for almost three hours! My dad and I really enjoyed each other’s company, and conversations. He couldn’t believe in the few short weeks he was gone, how much i’ve progressed. He kept sharing his positive comments with me, which makes me feel really good! Makes me want to push myself and work harder!

Anyways breathing wise I feel great today. Love being able to put and pair of shoes on and rack up the miles each day. Somedays I have a hard time believing this is my new life! I don’t really have any incision pain, but towards bedtime my sternum starts aching. I’ve been controlling the “aches” with tylenol. I HATE taken pain medication. Although I will say I took one with dinner, only because having my chest cut on yesterday it has been hurting. The hole from peg tube isn’t too bad either. I’ll be happy when this pain and the aching goes away, and I can just go go go! I shouldn’t complain things could always be worse!

Well tomorrow looks like it will be another busy day! Suppose to be nice tomorrow, off for a looooooooong walk in the morning and then lunch with my cousin and his wife! Can’t wait to see them!! Should be a great day! For now it’s Fast Furious 6 time! Have to get ready for Furious 7, since it opened today!!! Hope everything had a great Friday!

Until next time……………….

~Jen~
“Just Breathe”