Things are better

I feel much better than a few days ago.

Venting helped. A lot.

I have one regular reader (that I know of, hi Nikki!) and I think a lot of people that stumble across my blog read a bit and then never return.

I'm boring, I know. Sorreeeeeee.

Side note: if you do read, please comment once in a while. I'd love to talk to random faceless internet people. Not that I'm a creeper or anything. Or am I?

Anyway, just venting to practically no-one on the internet let me get it out of my system and I started feeling a bit better within a few hours.

My job is running a bit more smoothly, I'm not stressing as much and the time is starting to pass quicker. That's always good.

I still haven't run yet (it's been nearly 2 weeks... JEEZ) but I'm hoping to squeeze one in before my impending surgery (of doom?).

I'm getting some more blood taken tomorrow before surgery. It's on Tuesday. That's come around so quickly!

I'm not scared right now but I'm sure I will be when I'm actually there. Cue fabulous pictures from a hospital bed. You bet I'm gonna take some selfies.

Here's one from the Almighty Leg Fiasco of 2008:

Maybe I'll write about that injury one day. I still regret not being super weird and asking someone to take a picture of my backwards-hanging foot.

Imagine it.

Horrendous.

The weather is lovely today

I didn't go to sleep until 7.30am and I just woke up. 

Might take a walk in the park. 

Blah. 

Hopefully I'll be able to start running again next week. 

Next race is in April. 

I wonder how I'm going to negotiate running while my wrist is healing. I guess it depends how much my arm hurts! I might just have to go super slow and long. I dunno...

I can't do anything for the first 2 weeks so I'll probably take a few long walks to attempt to compensate.

1 week and a few days till surgery. Eep. It's come around really quick. 

 

It's also a bummer that I've been ill because my friends are having a party tonight and I haven't seen them since before Christmas. 

Rubbish, rubbish. 

Oh well, I'll see them next weekend so it's not too bad. 

Gonna weigh myself, put everyone's stuff in the spreadsheet and have a shower. 

I lead such an exciting life. 

Posts will get more interesting commencing... (?)

SO COLD

You can definitely tell winter is here.

Took a sleeping pill on Monday and managed to get to sleep at 11, didn't take one last night so I didn't sleep till 1am. Urghhh. No run since Sunday, not winning at life this week.

Had a pre-op physio assessment yesterday and the doctor was really nice. He did some tests to see the differences in my wrists, which was interesting. My left hand is half as strong as my right, even allowing for a 10% strength difference as my right hand is dominant. My range of movement in my left wrist up and down is 60 degrees less than my right wrist, which is quite a lot! He's also the 3rd physiotherapist to diagnose me with joint hypermobility. Awesome.

I asked how long I'd be having physiotherapy for and how long the full recovery time would be and he didn't really know, he said that they usually take it on a case by case basis but that I'd probably be in physio for 2 - 3 months and wouldn't expect recovery until May/June but this could be longer or sooner, nothing is definitive.

Oh well, we'll just have to see what happens!

In other news, I haven't bitten my nails in a while so they're growing pretty well. Manicure next Thursday, wooooo!

My diet hasn't been terrible but not overly strict (I'm eating wholemeal bread etc), but I haven't done much exercise recently. Pretty sure this is down to my sleeping pattern going a bit wacko.

Must. Run. Soon. February isn't that far away.

I haven't had a real cigarette in almost 24 hours, I've been smoking my e-cig. I have a menthol flavour in it right now and it's pretty nice.

I've ordered a bunch of other flavours too:
Apple Pie
Mango
Lychee
Rhubarb & Custard
Vanilla
Caramel
Menthol (different company)
Raspberry

I can't wait to try these! I still have more flavours I want to try too...

Time to do some work. Adios!

Body pump ain't happening

My legs hurt. I fail at life.

Probably shouldn't lift things till after the operation anyway, but oh well. Maybe next week.

I am really grateful for the NHS

But my god do they take forever sometimes. I waited an hour an a quarter before my appointment this morning. I was veeeeeery bored.

I have my pre-op assessment tomorrow so I have a bunch of forms to fill in, fun times.

Run was achieved this morning. I'm still 36 seconds/km slower than my fastest time. Dunno what's wrong with me. It was good though, I ran for about 1 km without stopping which is the longest distance I've run so far. It's not very long, but still, progress!

The training today was a 5 min walk warm up, 10 minute free form run, squats, walking, squats, 7 min free form run, 2 min stretch, 7 min free form run, 2 min stretch and 7 min free form run. I didn't manage to run any of the full 7 minutes, but when I did run I really pushed myself in short spurts, in the hope that will make me better overall when I try and run for a longer. I dunno, this is all assumption!

Catching Fire.... wooo!

Going to see Catching Fire with the bestie on Saturday, can't wait!

I haven't been to the cinema in over a year.

Exciting times.

It's so cold. Seriously, brrrrrr.

I'm currently in bed and going to watch some Supernatural.

Run tomorrow, fun times. Body pump... maybe.

I also have my 2nd appointment with the hand specialist surgeon dude tomorrow. Surgery scheduling, what a barrel of fun.