I ordered a swing set. Dave didn't think we needed to. Miles helped me carry it to the backyard. Miles helped me put it together. Dave came out to help for the very end of assembly. (Later I anchored it after seeing what it did with the kids on it going the same direction.) Everyone loves the swing set.
The kids loved this swing set. We used it so much. It was great. It still is great.
Photo Taken January 18.
After this I had moved the baby swing to the middle.
I got a new desk. Liam climbed inside and made himself at home. He was too cute. I had to take his picture. He only got to climb in since the drawers were carried upstairs separately.
Photo taken January 16, 2021
The doctor said I would go home Sunday night during my surgery. He didn't actually see me after. The nurses said I had to be able to walk around, get up without getting lightheaded, go to the bathroom, and I forget the 4th thing now.
I got home around 8PM and proceeded to overdo it. My incisions bled. I stained my shirt. I didn't even change out of that bloody shirt for 2 days.
Monday morning I helped Dave pack school lunches. Then I had to rest. The Norco didn't seem to work but I kept trying to tough it out.
Monday night I could not fall asleep. I was up past 1. The pain just was too hard to sleep through. I slept about 4 hours. Shortly after Liam woke up. Things didn't go well with that. I ended up trying to change his dirty diaper. He didn't want me to and that was so difficult that I ended up getting all clammy. I thought I was going to pass out. I saw myself in the mirror and I was as white as a ghost.
I had to wait for the doctors office to open. I said the medicine didn't work but they just gave me a little stronger version. That took until 10:20 just because it was hard to get in touch with him. It was the same medicine. I knew it wouldn't help. it didn't.
They wanted me to get blood work as soon as possible. After about a half hour of just trying to get out of bed, I called back saying I did not think I could get there. At first the nurse assumed it was because nobody was home to take me. I said no i just don't think i can walk all the way to the car.
She said the doctor wanted to see me but he was leaving to go to the hospital so either I had to get there in 10 minutes or go at 1 PM.
I got blood work done first. It was put with a rush so they took me in front of the other 20 or so people who were waiting. Then I had about 40 minutes to wait for the doctor. He didn't think anything was wrong and maybe just tough it out. But he wanted to get all the blood work back.
The first results were all good. About 10 min after leaving the doctor's office more results were posted and he called Dave immediately telling me to go to the hospital. Then he corrected himself to wait to hear back so then I wouldn't have to go to the ER and could check in at registration. He was guessing that maybe I had gall stones in my main vile duct.
We got to the hospital but Ella wasn't allowed in so then I just had to wait for people to push me in my wheel chair. I got Ella's friend to come get her then Dave got to come up with me.
At the hospital, I got a CT. It was supposed to be a rush order but it took until 5 pm. Apparently I have a lot of fluid in my abdomen and need a surgery tonight. Then tomorrow I'll have a different procedure done.
I feel like I could be a lot more detailed. I didn't even consult texts to people to remind myself of times but this is good enough for now. My surgery is at 9:30 PM.
I signed Ella and Miles up for gymanstics this summer. Ella and Miles both stopped going when COVID hit. Miles has never gone to this place. Now they go at roughly the same time. Miles starts 15 minutes after Ella and that 15 minutes took an eternity for him. Then Ella is done 5 minutes before he is. Now we have to watch from outside and it's very hard with the glare.
I decided to see what a Garmin training plan is like. I set it up inputting my half marathon. Then I changed it to have a goal time.
Some things are cool. Some are not. I have run not on the plan.
I did learn I can move a run. I ended up missing one but I ran anyway. It's a little tricky to see the pace while you run. The drills seem to really slow my pace. Also all the walking slows my overall pace. But I will try to do this some more and see how it goes.
The first day was a Benchmark Run. All these runs have various drills and long warmups and cooldowns which make my overall pace so much slower.
It started June 4. I set it up June 3.
Day 1 was 2 minute warmup, 5 min fast, and 2 min cooldown. I ran a workout after this not part of the plan. I did .52 in 5 minutes at 9:37 pace. Once I did this run, Garmin created a plan for me.
I missed my long run. I rescheduled it then rescheduled it then just didn't get to it. With Ella home it's rough. I ran on Sunday but not the long run and I didn't realize I could move training plan workouts so I did 30 day breakaway (6/6) and also later that day ran to and from an open house. I did run to and from PT but that wasn't considered the plan either. (6/8) On Sunday, I ran with Liam and still beat my distance the last time I ran this same workout.
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Then I swapped the order of my next 2 runs.
I did Magic Mile at night when I wasn't feeling that well. (6/10/21) You start with a bunch of drills then on the Magic Mile, I did that in 10:03. This predicts a half with a 12:02 pace so 2:37:40 for the time for a half!
Then I did Goal pace repeats the next day. (6/11/21) I did 5 repeats based on my goal pace of 2:10 that I input. I accidentally did better than the suggested range 2 of 5 times and 2 times were within a second of the low end of the pace. The workout felt really hard because I was sore from The Prep Legs and then a run the day before. I didn't get to run until 11 AM. It was so hot. The overall run time was much longer than I hoped/guessed. All the drills and walk breaks sure make the time and distance longer than I'm used to with repeats like this. I could see my first .25 split for each repeat but it didn't pop up with the second so I never knew for sure what I was doing. While running it would tell me my pace or if I was in the range I should be in. But that doesn't work so well if you have walk intervals so I'm not sure. I tended to have 2 walk intervals per half mile. Jeff Galloway is the Coach and he's all about run walk run so I don't know why most of the training runs don't even account for it.
I was going to do week 1 but week 1 was partial and then week 2 merged into week 1 and I pushed my long run and I ran not on the plan too so I'll just post this now since I started writing it. I also did 2 hikes, and 3 The Prep workouts in the 8 days covered here.
I sent her some photos and she made these for me.
We hiked with Beth, Gio, and Abree. After a year of doing nothing with anyone it was so nice to be out. We both forgot to use sunscreen. The kids loved climbing on rocks. I predicted early on right when my kids would get fed up and not want to walk and I was right. (Once we passed where we could have parked but didn't they really didn't want to do it.) It sure is nice having a stroller to hold all the waters and snacks.
I made the video compilation of all live photos and then 1 video. I didn't even take any videos but it's nice that you can make a video out of live videos.
