Selfie (2.21.21)

We took our post run/bike ride selfie. Miles likes it when I say poop then he's overly happy. He will ask me to say poop and then this is the result. 

2021 Week 9/52 photo

Liam wanted to use a scooter. He was so cute I was trying to get ahead of him for pictures.  The pictures below are in reverse order.  

Photos taken March 2. 

2021 Week 8/52 photo

Liam enjoys are little kid slide. 

Photo Taken February 22, 2021.

2021 Week 7/52 photo

We went to our first restaurant in over a year. It wasn't inside though. We ate at a table outside in a street. It was nice to have restaurant food fresh.  I was shocked how good Liam was since he certainly has no idea what a restaurant is supposed to be like.  We went to Eureka!

Photo Taken February 16, 2021

2021 Week 6/52 photo

 

We went for a hike. It was way too steep so I had to turn around with Liam.  We hung out at the bottom and had fruit snacks. Dave, Ella, and Miles walked to the top then back down. 

Photo taken on February 14, 2021.

2021 Week 5/52 photo

Liam loves to ride his motorcycle tricycle.  He can't reach the pedals but he walks along and loves it. 

Photo Taken February 2, 2021.

Hospital Follow-up

I wrote about the first part of being in the hospital. 

My surgery was a little late. Transport was late getting me so then the surgeon came and got me himself. He was super annoyed. It was a long day for him.  It started near 9:30 PM. Or later than that. They had me get ready and I was waiting in the transport bed for awhile.  I think it started late. The surgeon was so annoyed with how late it was and how long it took.  I think he called it an exploratory laparoscopic surgery. 

I woke up in recovery after 11 pm. I was very groggy. I remember noting how empty it was. It was just me and 2 nurses. Apparently they were on-call nurses called in special for me. 

I really need to look up the exact problem more but it was something with how when the gallbladder was removed it pulled part of the liver.  He had to cauterize the edge of the liver.

Every morning they tested my blood work again. My liver enzymes kept going down but nowhere near normal. 

Thursday I was on nothing by mouth for my MRI. It was my hardest MRI and then the pain was the worst after it. I had to hold my breath for periods of time through the entire MRI. It was like hold it for 21 seconds, 25 seconds, 28 seconds, etc. I have a rough time holding my breath for that long normally and then with all the pain and unable to take deep breathes it was rough. The room was spinning during the MRI.  

The doctor said there was no bile so it is good.  

He didn't really care how much my incision is draining but what it has.  The drain leaked a ton. I had many layers of gauze and my gown would still get all wet and be annoying. I remember asking the nurses to change it but they just seemed to keep on their schedule of when they'd change it no matter what. 

I was still in so much pain on Wednesday. They even wanted to stop giving me the good medicine that worked because at home I wouldn't be able to take an IV medicine.   They started to give me 2 pills of Norco instead of 1 which helped a bunch. But it was still nothing compared to Dilaudid.  

Each day I was so much better than the previous day but I was still far from normal.  

They seemed to want to send me home Wednesday and I said that was a bad idea.  Then they kept me and wanted to keep me another day just in case. 

My finger got infected while I was at the hospital. When I left the hospital they gave me antibiotics only because of my finger. 

I could take Norco every 4 hours. I would take a walk about an hour after I took the medicine. I definitely didn't take any within an hour of medicine being due since I was in so much more pain then.  

I left the hospital Friday at 11 am. 

I napped a lot. I barely walked. Short walks around the kitchen or eating made me lightheaded. My sciatica started giving me issues and every time I stand up and sometimes when I'm lying down my leg would go numb. 

Thursday June 24, I had my post-op appointment and had my drain removed.  The pain got a lot better once the drain was removed. 

The pictures aren't the best. All my pictures were slightly blurry when I tried to take them of the incision/drain. 

2021 Exercise Goals Progress (June)

Here's my goals so far. It seems I'm totally blowing some out of the water that my June set back from surgery will be OK.

For 2021, here are my exercise goals and how I'm doing:

1. Run 100 miles (with a reach goal of 200 miles)
• January = 24.49 mi  (8.33-16.66/ mo goal)
• February = 21.51 {46}
• March = 22.58
• April =  29.6
• May = 33.26
• June = 17.53 {148.97}
2. Run 52 times (With a reach goal of 100 times)
• January = 19 runs (4.3 - 8.33 x a month goal) 
• February - 15 {34}
• March = 13
• April = 18
• May = 16
• June = 9 {90}
3. Complete 3 Beachbody programs
• Muscle Burns Fat (January)
• Muscle Burns Fat (February)
• Muscle Burns Fat Advanced
• (I did the running workouts for 30 Day Breakaway and half the weights.)
• I made it through 3/5 of the PREP before Surgery
4. Exercise in some form 156 times (that's 3x/week) (Reach goal of 312)
• January = 50  (13 - 26 x month goal)  
• February = 45 {95}
• March = 48
• April = 39
• May = 34
• June = 16 {232}
5. Win 20 step bets
• January = 2  (1-2 x month goal)  
• February = 3 {5}
• March = 1
• April = 2
• May = 3
• June = 1 {12}

Sweet Miles (1.30.21)

Miles got a kid video camera that also takes photos. He took some photos of me because he knows I love pictures. I think there were many many awful ones but he got a few good ones. 

I like the one with Liam's foot blocking half the screen too. 

Miles did a good job!

2021 Week 4/52 photo

 
Just look at Liam looking at Ella here. Ella was eating ice cream and decided to share with Liam. He was so excited about it. Ella also gave him a GIANT spoon when sharing with him. 

Photo taken January 25, 2021.

2021 Week 3/52 photo

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. 

Faces (1.14.21)

 
Miles made many different faces and then had me take his picture. 

I love when Miles is requesting photos to be taken.