No workouts for a while

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Well, this week was destined to be messed up. The last few were so incredibly insane and because I was looking forward to a rest it turns out I'm not having one. Well, I am but I'm not (from the insanity anyway). I was planning on being able to get in decent workouts today through Friday but today I worked at 6:30 AM then went to a doctor appointment (more in a sec), then came home and slept for 2 hours and soon I have to get at school for an orthodontist appointment and run around like a hamster on a wheel again. Tomorrow the kids, I realized yesterday, have a 2 hour delay for school so I won't be able to work out except in the evening and you know I won't then (and I am so taking advantage of the late start to get some much needed extra sleep). Thursday and Friday something else will happen. It just will. Then I'm going scrapbooking all weekend (sleeping at home, working Friday afternoon and Saturday morning anyway).

I can't do much of a workout for a week anyway because of the doc appointment so, I guess it is fine that I'll be scrambling to fit them in if I can. First, any guys, especially guys without women in their lives, kindly delete this message and move on now! Thank you! As most of you the rest of you know, I am a breast cancer survivor. It is 6 years as of February 7th (I think, either that or the 9th I need to look it up) that I got the call from the radiologist telling me my diagnosis. I had a mastectomy and in May of last year was clinically pronounced "cancer-free." I also had reconstruction surgeries along the way, including another one this past September. When you have your breast reconstructed you can also choose to have a new nipple constructed in a separate surgery, which I did (they used tissue from my thighs I think). That new nipple is the same color as whatever flesh it came from and does not normally match your natural nipple/aerola color. Since I have one natural breast, I wanted the two to match and today, I had the reconstructed nipple tattooed (literally, but by a plastic surgeon who specializes in this kind of work). I had it done once before, 4 years ago, and for some reason (the doc thinks scar tissue) the pigment did not stay. Since I had more surgery on that breast anyway and shouldn't expect more for, hopefully, 10 years, it was a good time to try it again. I really wasn't even thinking about it much before I went in today, I've had so many, many other things going on. But I went after I finished my 6:30 AM WW class I went in for the 8:00 appointment. When the medical assistant asked if I was nervous I said yes because suddenly I was! They do a local injection to numb the area and then off we go. It only look about a half hour total. I have a dressing on the area now and it will stay in place for 48 hours, then I have to change it every day until my follow up appointment next Tuesday morning. Good thing I thought to take a shower last night! I had been planning to work out when I got home and then about 8:30 PM I got the thought, oh wow, I vaguely remember a dressing, I wonder if I won't be able to shower! :-) I asked about restrictions and he said no strenuous exercise (no sweating especially) for a week. Okay, good thing this week is only slightly less insane than last week! I was hoping to start on a bit of a FIRM rotation this week (I miss my FIRM workouts so much and I think I'm finally ready for them!) but I guess it will wait a week! I might do some light walking and stretching anyway. I might also just use whatever actual down time I do have to just do things I want to do besides exercise too! I haven't had much time for anything for me lately, but when I've been able to I've done some kind of workout and that has been mostly my me time so having a reasonable excuse to do some other things this week won't hurt either (and missing another full week of exercise won't hurt me either, I'll get back on the ball as soon as I can). I'll keep poking my head in when I can this week but right now, it is time to get on my hamster wheel again. Just wanted to poke in and share what is going on here!