Re: OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16

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Hi !I'm sure you will do this, but be sure to take it easy. Sounds like you have some good plans. I have to go through paperwork from last year's school year, too. I hate to part with any of it and that is the problem. I guess I will just have, to though. I have two Giant folders with ALL (yes, ALL!) the artwork from PreK and now I have Kindergarten papers/project/art work. What can I do with it all? Good thing I only have one!

You reminded me that I need to schedule my mammogram. I have been putting it off - Im not due until September 25th, but I should schedule it now and have it on the calendar. I am dreading it b/c a) I have a terrible fear of any type of cancer and in my "logic" I figure if I never find out I have it, I never will have it. I know it is very faulty logic and oftentimes the sooner something is caught the better, but....I still have this horrible fear of it. Not just breast cancer, all types of cancer, I have trouble scheduling routine physicals, etc. b/c of it and I am even scared of the dentist for fear of oral cancer! and my last mammogram was really scary and I'm not looking forward to the panic again. I needed to have extra views and an ultrasound b/c of density. It all turned out fine, but I was really scared/traumatized while I was there. It is wonderful that they did the extra views and

the ultrasound the same day while I waited at the facility - which was beyond fabulous, I would have been a total basket case if I had to go and come back on another day. But, I'm still scared of going through that trauma/fear again. I know I can go in expecting that an ultrasound and extra views may be necessary and "routine" for me, but I"m pretty sure I'll hace a panic attack! Still - my goal for tomorrow is to schedule my physical and my mammogram, both of which I'm "due" for in September. Wish me luck. I'm posting it so I can be sure that I follow through!

Donna

From: nancydewolf@ sbcglobal. net <nancydewolf@ sbcglobal. net>Subject: OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so

I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really

helps!

__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

Hi !I'm sure you will do this, but be sure to take it easy. Sounds like you have some good plans. I have to go through paperwork from last year's school year, too. I hate to part with any of it and that is the problem. I guess I will just have, to though. I have two Giant folders with ALL (yes, ALL!) the artwork from PreK and now I have Kindergarten papers/project/art work. What can I do with it all? Good thing I only have one!

You reminded me that I need to schedule my mammogram. I have been putting it off - Im not due until September 25th, but I should schedule it now and have it on the calendar. I am dreading it b/c a) I have a terrible fear of any type of cancer and in my "logic" I figure if I never find out I have it, I never will have it. I know it is very faulty logic and oftentimes the sooner something is caught the better, but....I still have this horrible fear of it. Not just breast cancer, all types of cancer, I have trouble scheduling routine physicals, etc. b/c of it and I am even scared of the dentist for fear of oral cancer! and my last mammogram was really scary and I'm not looking forward to the panic again. I needed to have extra views and an ultrasound b/c of density. It all turned out fine, but I was really scared/traumatized while I was there. It is wonderful that they did the extra views and

the ultrasound the same day while I waited at the facility - which was beyond fabulous, I would have been a total basket case if I had to go and come back on another day. But, I'm still scared of going through that trauma/fear again. I know I can go in expecting that an ultrasound and extra views may be necessary and "routine" for me, but I"m pretty sure I'll hace a panic attack! Still - my goal for tomorrow is to schedule my physical and my mammogram, both of which I'm "due" for in September. Wish me luck. I'm posting it so I can be sure that I follow through!

Donna

From: nancydewolf@ sbcglobal. net <nancydewolf@ sbcglobal. net>Subject: OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so

I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really

helps!

__________________________________________________

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I completely understand your fears Donna, I'm glad you're not going to let them paralyze you and that you WILL schedule your mammogram tomorrow! Please post when you do so I can properly applaud! Regarding your faulty logic, here's a bit of truth to put in its place... my cancer was diagnosed via a routine mammogram. It was actually my baseline done when I was 37 because a nurse told me I should get it done since I didn't have any family medical history (I am adopted) and insurance would pay (between ages 35 and 40 they usually pay for one baseline mammogram). So, I dragged my feet for a month and finally did it. I was told later that the nurse literally saved my life. My cancer was caught very early and, as my oncologist always reminds me, my prognosis is excellent. If I had waited, I was also told, it would have been a MUCH different prognosis. I truly might not be writing this five years later. I know you won't let fear keep you from doing what you need to do for yourself, your husband and ... let us know you did it.

Hugs,

P.S. School paper work... not all of it is precious. Keep the early in the year examples and the later in the year examples to see her progress. Keep handwriting samples. Keep the very best stuff which is usually work that makes you smile inside and out, stuff she is/was especially proud of or excited about and things teachers tell you were really big deals. That's my way of doing it anyway which means 90% of it gets pitched but that saves a lot of room in my basement and I've never wished I would have kept anything doing it this way either. I do get paralyzed by "what ifs" sometimes and think I "should" keep things because "what if" and then you can imagine the terrible scenarios (and the huge amount of stuff). Allowing that kind of thinking to rule my life though ruins it too and the precious things get lost among the rest that really amounts to clutter. If a what if came true I'd have the precious things and the rest wouldn't make an appreciable difference. I hate what ifs. I've lived through too many of them to know they can come true so it is much too easy for me to get caught up in the paralysis of them but I refuse to let the what ifs win because then it becomes a different game of "what ifs" (as in, what if I had had the courage to do what I know would have been the better path...)

More hugs,

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

I completely understand your fears Donna, I'm glad you're not going to let them paralyze you and that you WILL schedule your mammogram tomorrow! Please post when you do so I can properly applaud! Regarding your faulty logic, here's a bit of truth to put in its place... my cancer was diagnosed via a routine mammogram. It was actually my baseline done when I was 37 because a nurse told me I should get it done since I didn't have any family medical history (I am adopted) and insurance would pay (between ages 35 and 40 they usually pay for one baseline mammogram). So, I dragged my feet for a month and finally did it. I was told later that the nurse literally saved my life. My cancer was caught very early and, as my oncologist always reminds me, my prognosis is excellent. If I had waited, I was also told, it would have been a MUCH different prognosis. I truly might not be writing this five years later. I know you won't let fear keep you from doing what you need to do for yourself, your husband and ... let us know you did it.

Hugs,

P.S. School paper work... not all of it is precious. Keep the early in the year examples and the later in the year examples to see her progress. Keep handwriting samples. Keep the very best stuff which is usually work that makes you smile inside and out, stuff she is/was especially proud of or excited about and things teachers tell you were really big deals. That's my way of doing it anyway which means 90% of it gets pitched but that saves a lot of room in my basement and I've never wished I would have kept anything doing it this way either. I do get paralyzed by "what ifs" sometimes and think I "should" keep things because "what if" and then you can imagine the terrible scenarios (and the huge amount of stuff). Allowing that kind of thinking to rule my life though ruins it too and the precious things get lost among the rest that really amounts to clutter. If a what if came true I'd have the precious things and the rest wouldn't make an appreciable difference. I hate what ifs. I've lived through too many of them to know they can come true so it is much too easy for me to get caught up in the paralysis of them but I refuse to let the what ifs win because then it becomes a different game of "what ifs" (as in, what if I had had the courage to do what I know would have been the better path...)

More hugs,

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

I completely understand your fears Donna, I'm glad you're not going to let them paralyze you and that you WILL schedule your mammogram tomorrow! Please post when you do so I can properly applaud! Regarding your faulty logic, here's a bit of truth to put in its place... my cancer was diagnosed via a routine mammogram. It was actually my baseline done when I was 37 because a nurse told me I should get it done since I didn't have any family medical history (I am adopted) and insurance would pay (between ages 35 and 40 they usually pay for one baseline mammogram). So, I dragged my feet for a month and finally did it. I was told later that the nurse literally saved my life. My cancer was caught very early and, as my oncologist always reminds me, my prognosis is excellent. If I had waited, I was also told, it would have been a MUCH different prognosis. I truly might not be writing this five years later. I know you won't let fear keep you from doing what you need to do for yourself, your husband and ... let us know you did it.

Hugs,

P.S. School paper work... not all of it is precious. Keep the early in the year examples and the later in the year examples to see her progress. Keep handwriting samples. Keep the very best stuff which is usually work that makes you smile inside and out, stuff she is/was especially proud of or excited about and things teachers tell you were really big deals. That's my way of doing it anyway which means 90% of it gets pitched but that saves a lot of room in my basement and I've never wished I would have kept anything doing it this way either. I do get paralyzed by "what ifs" sometimes and think I "should" keep things because "what if" and then you can imagine the terrible scenarios (and the huge amount of stuff). Allowing that kind of thinking to rule my life though ruins it too and the precious things get lost among the rest that really amounts to clutter. If a what if came true I'd have the precious things and the rest wouldn't make an appreciable difference. I hate what ifs. I've lived through too many of them to know they can come true so it is much too easy for me to get caught up in the paralysis of them but I refuse to let the what ifs win because then it becomes a different game of "what ifs" (as in, what if I had had the courage to do what I know would have been the better path...)

More hugs,

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Jen!!

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16 Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Jen!!

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16 Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

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Thank you, Vennitta!!!

Re: OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16

Good look, heal well and heal fast ! Vennitta

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:50 PM, <nancydewolfsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

-- Get Fit! Weight loss will follow

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Vennitta!!!

Re: OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16

Good look, heal well and heal fast ! Vennitta

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:50 PM, <nancydewolfsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

-- Get Fit! Weight loss will follow

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Vennitta!!!

Re: OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16

Good look, heal well and heal fast ! Vennitta

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:50 PM, <nancydewolfsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

-- Get Fit! Weight loss will follow

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Jen!!

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16 Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

[Guest guest]

,

awww i hate to hear that i know it's going to be hard for u to sit around and do nothing. it's goona be a ong tough recovery but once u are recovered u'll be back to workouts in no time. sending u all my positive engery! Trisha

From: "nancydewolf@..." <nancydewolf@...> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:04:21 PMSubject: Re: OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16

Hi Donna,

Thank you, it is a good thing except for the inconvenience (and I'm not looking forward to the pain either but they'll at least give me pills for that).

I really do have to take it easy. I will have a lot of stitches in me and pulling on them will not only be painful, but especially could really mess up the healing, including possibly moving the implant out of position (which would probably mean more surgery). I was told yesterday I should walk often, but if I break a sweat or start breathing hard it means I'm working too hard. I cannot do any kind of strength training because I can't do repetitive motions but I will need to do some reaching/stretching exercises to rehab my shoulder. I asked about stretching specifically and I probably can do some of that but no yoga. I can do things around the house, including some light decluttering but I can't lift anything over 5 lbs. vacuum, go grocery shopping or lots of other things. I can read, play on my computer and probably scrapbook and cross stitch, we'll see. I have TONS of kid papers to go through and get rid of stuff. I said I

was going to work on it last school year but it only got worse. That is one of my projects I have in mind. Which reminds me, I'd better get that stuff accessible soon because some of the boxes definitely weigh more than 5 lbs! I'm going to the library the week of my surgery and get a few books too. I'm VP of my daughter's PTO this year and I told the pres she can send me work to do from my couch if she needs help with things while I'm gone and she warned me she might take me up on it. I'm trying to remember the last big surgery and what the recovery was like but it is getting mixed up in my head with the mastectomy which was awful. I think I was down for at least 5 days after the last one but I can't remember if it hurt to do things with my left arm or not (after the mastectomy I literally could not wipe down a counter top with a sponge without it hurting terribly). If it does then I'll need to get a ride to the library for more books at some point!

;-)

My boss called me earlier this evening to tell me who she got lined up for my classes and I am completely thrilled with one of them and mostly thrilled with the other. I think both will do great and I will have meetings to come back to which was a big concern and will be one less thing to be bothered about.

Good luck finding time to write your book (but don't wait for an "inconvenience" to make time for you!), the title is cute!!

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so

I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really

helps!

[Guest guest]

Thanks tons, Trisha! I've been through it before, it doesn't last too long, I'm trying to remind myself of that! Thanks for the kind thoughts!

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

[Guest guest]

Thanks tons, Trisha! I've been through it before, it doesn't last too long, I'm trying to remind myself of that! Thanks for the kind thoughts!

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!

[Guest guest]

Thanks tons, Trisha! I've been through it before, it doesn't last too long, I'm trying to remind myself of that! Thanks for the kind thoughts!

OT: Long rest scheduled for Sept 18 - Oct 16Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:50 PM

Well, it looks like I will be out of the exercise loop for a month starting Sept. 18 for surgery and recovery. Nothing is wrong though! Actually, everything will be right when it is done. This is to replace the breast implant I had put in place when I had a mastectomy (for breast cancer) 5 years ago. It will be an out patient surgery that will last about 2-3 hours. I won't be able to drive for 3 weeks so I'll be off work and I won't be able to exercise other than walk for 4 weeks. No lifting anything over 5 lbs either for a month. I WILL be following doctor's orders too. I've noticed I heal much better when I do! :-)

I need to have the implant replaced because it no longer fits me. I've lost at least 25 pounds since my initial reconstruction surgery and my natural side lost weight but the implant can't so among other issues, I'm lopsided and have been for 3 years. I'm having some other issues now too, including the implant rolling around in its cavity. I feel it especially when I exercise (not comfortable but not painful) so I asked my doc about it. The doc said it was time to replace it and I'm very good with that. The new implant will be a huge improvement over the one I have in terms of comfort and naturalness so that is also exciting.

I'm praying my boss finds really good subs for me, Sept/Oct is a big time for WW and if there's a dud leader in my place people won't be there when I get back. I'm taking the week of the surgery off too so I can do grocery shopping and other getting ready for surgery tasks so I'll be off for an entire month. Another plus to my personal life though is that I will have 3 weeks of sitting around the house without anyone else here because the kids will be back in school and DH will be at work after I can be left alone, which should be fairly quickly, so that gives me lots of time for all those projects I keep telling myself I want to do. ;-) I'm mostly looking forward to the forced quietness of activity (in terms of my running around like a chicken with no head most days, not in terms of exercise) too. I will be able to walk (leisurely not for fitness) as much as I feel up to so I'll do that and, if possible, I'll do some very low intensity and other similar workout videos too on days I can't walk outside. I want to try and do as many really good intensity workouts as I can for now though, like trying to get through all the P90X workouts at least once before then. That's part of my feeling like a slug last week. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm trying not to now but it isn't easy! I know I'm going to go backwards to some extent just because of the surgery and of course, the month of no real exercise and I'm trying to minimize the effects! Oh well, I'll do what I can do and just deal with the rest. I'm off to plan next week's rotation in a few minutes too. It will be another insane week. I'll plan workouts that could work for each day (except Thursday when I'm gone between 8 AM and 8 PM) and just do my best. Thanks for all your wonderful support, everyone, it really helps!