Day 16 Post-Op: Recovery Collateral

February 8, 2013

Crawling around on the floor like a barbaric cave woman has certainly given my arms, shoulders and upper back some nice definition. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the rest of my body, but at least for the moment I can find solace in the vanity of that. Especially since I have a not-so-attractive swollen face thing going on right now. Constantly hoisting myself up off the ground and sleeping wedge is basically forcing me to do push-ups (of which I painstakingly would attempt when I could actually exercise 3 months ago). I'd say that is pretty nice collateral for having to do another week of face down activities.

Of the elite group of people that are so fortunate to go through this sort of recovery process (sarcasm), you start to think about all of the things you could do in two weeks; you think about all that happens in a two week time frame. I did some research and math, this is some of what I came up with:

• You can ship a package from the United States and it will arrive in Australia (standard shipping rates of course, ha)
• You can listen to over 6,700 songs consecutively with the songs averaging 3 minutes in length
• An average person could walk 504 miles in two weeks if they walked 3 miles per hour for 12 hours a day
• Your body will build up enough antibodies to be effective after receiving the influenza vaccine
• You can make your own homemade wine
• A football team can win the AFC championship game AND the Super Bowl
• Your eyes will blink about 5,600 times if you blink an average of 25 times per hour, and account for eight hours of sleep each day
• You could type about 336,000 words if typing an average of 50 words per minute for eight hours each day
• Your heart will have pumped approximately 27,000 gallons of blood at the end of a two week time frame
• The American opossum's gestation period is approximately 12-14 days, so you could have a baby opossum!

At this point, I am close to seeing over the bubble in my eye. I am hardly sitting in the chair because of the pain it caused in my knees. Just one more week....

Here is a wedding photo, because I have no idea what else to put here.

Photo by Nicholas Griner Photographer 2012