Angela's Blog

Hola.

How you doing?

I'm great. Been a weird couple days the past few days. Yesterday was my first 5 hour day back at work. It was SHOCKING how much it took out of me! It's only one additional hour. But, wow, was I beat! I think my new way to try it is to skip cardio at the gym at work and just try to get in to actually working sooner. I definitely still want to go to the gym at work for my arm exercises with weights and yoga, but I think I might just try getting cardio in on the off days at the gym at home. We'll see.

And I spent a long time in the lab yesterday too. I was setting up more tanks and I tried some new stuff too. I tried blowing the PBS out of a tank for Jimmy. That used to be so easy but it is anything but any more! For those of you who don't know what that means, tanks have PBS put in them to keep the probes wet when they're prepped and then before you put cell culture in them you have to pressurize the tank and blow the PBS out so the tank is empty. Anyways, not easy anymore! At all! And the hardest part was trying to get the filter off the end of the tube. I'm going to take a similar setup into my OT appointment next week and see if they can help me come up with a work around. We'll see.

And all that difficulty was met gleefully by the general down in the dumps that was my attitude yesterday. I just kept feeling that I am already as better as I'm going to get. This is it so I shouldn't hope for anything more. And then it all got worked in (by the enemy) while I was praying for further healing and restoration that I am obviously ungrateful for how far God has brought me already. He really tried to get me feeling bad and like I haven't been grateful enough and due to that I really shouldn't get any more healing.

But I got to talk and pray through all of that with the ladies at my group last night. So take that, Satan!

Been a pretty good darn day thus far today! Josh worked from home and took me to my therapy appointments today so that's been nice. Even if I don't get to hang with him it really is just so nice and calming and comforting to know that he's here. Had PT and OT this morning. PT was ridiculously hard! I went forward and backwards on the balance beam today both regular walk and heel to toe! And then even once down standing sideways crossing one leg over the other! Holy you know what! Josh made a very good point when he said that he was VERY impressed since balance wasn't my strong suit even before the accident. :)

And I picked up the paperwork from the DOL about getting back to driving that my doc had to sign when I was in for therapy too. And I went to the DMV right by my house this afternoon and turned it in and they said I'm good to go! No requirement for me taking the driving test or written test over again! Yeah!!! So look out, I'll be back on the roads now!

And I learned a most valuable lesson this past weekend too. We saw Clay and Yvonne at Randy and Angela's baby shower and Clay and Yvonne had their daughter, Elise, with them. Elise is brilliant! She told me about making funfetti cookies. You make them out of the cake mix (which is my favorite). I just tried them and are they good!!! Ooooh, yum! Dangerous! I should probably get that whole cardio thing figured out before I get too into the funfetti cookies! :)

That's what I've got.

Talk at ya later.

Please, if you have any questions, ask away.

Bye.

Ang