If the the first thing you hear on the first day of the month is Rabbit, Rabbit! Be sure to echo the speaker, be they partner, child, or neighbor through very thin walls, then you will both have good luck for the month. I saw a note about this a few months back on Facebook from Sandra Boynton. While rabbits are not the sole inhabitants of her mystical menagerie, they do make their presence known. This month was the first I remembered.
Yes, I look forward to this October. October will be the official turnaround for the spinal column attached to David, Laird of Kilnaish. After many years of ice packs and heating pads after yard work, things changed significantly about the same time as so many of us hibernated to our home offices and learned that the occasional work from home days, could become weeks, months, and then on into the next years. "It has be that I am working from the dining room table with a hard back wooden chair." No the office chair I got from the office did not fix it. Two and a half years of back and forth was enough. I recall telling Suzanne I knew I would have back surgery at some point, just not sure when--not really afraid--just not in a hurry.
Upcoming, I will see that doctor again on the October 11th instead of the 6th we had planned. In the weeks since we set the date, he needs to be out of the office next week. Once I get the all clear, I can resume riding in and driving cars for short trips. I have not been in a car for any reason since September 22nd. I will be able to return to my desk job at some level. Once I got started in the computer industry back in 1989, this will have been the longest period I have not worked. Even with my myocardial infarction back in 2013, I entered the hospital on a Tuesday and was back to work on Monday with no restrictions. I cannot say enough good about Range Resources with their professional and financial support.
Two specific symptoms drove me to take action.
1) Morning stiffness and pain in walking. Wake up, sit up for a few minutes, slowly stand up, check balance, try to move. Now, I wake up, sit up, stand up and move. Almost since day one! The farther I get from the surgery-impact, the easier it is.
2) Numbness and pain after walking too far. Over time the distance got down to about a quarter mile. I remember when we were in Brooklyn this summer visiting family, we had to get some stuff and then snag an uber to their house. They were walking and using the subway. I think it took us three stops to get to the store. My occupational therapist said, I was a fall risk waiting to happen trying to walk too far on numb feet and legs. Yesterday, I ventured to walk the entire length of my block, from our spot in the middle to one end, all the way to the other and back. Not far, maybe a third of a mile, but that is more than enough to know the procedure did its work.
I remember back in the mid 70s when Dad had his first bypass procedure. Once he recovered enough from the surgery to begin walking in ernest, he went from not being able to walk to work a mile away to being able to walk to church over two and 1/2 miles away. I look forward to being able to walk to church about two and 1/2 miles away. Thanks be for the angels in scrubs.
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