Home - Week 8 - Flying Solo

First week on my own. The feeling I had on Saturday morning when I woke was the same I used to get when I was a teenager and my folks had gone somewhere for the weekend. There is a stillness that seems amplified by the fact that you are the only one in the house. Every disturbance is concentrated: house cracks are louder, clocks have thunderous ticks and even the fridge compressor wines to its high pitch and then stops with an echo.

My chest is feeling much better these days so I can actually sit straight up without the protective tuck or roll I was required to do for the first month. As I sat up in bed, bug eyed and disoriented, the cobwebs started to dissipate and all my plans for the day, the week and the month started to flood my brain. I started to itemize all the errands I would do (with the truck), I figured out when I would do my walks, I started meal planning for the week and for about an hour I sat their thinking about doing stuff. When I finally got out of bed, I did the walk around. You know, you walk around your house almost like you want to make sure everyone is gone and you're alone. I used to do this every time my folks left me alone.

With my action plan ruminating in my brains I took care of the first order of business: Latte. During my recovery, for some reason or another, I decided I wasn't going to hit the espresso maker. I fired up the Rancilio, grabbed a bowl from the cupboard and proceeded with my coffee morning ritual. Things are getting back to normal.

This week was more Rehab sessions. The sessions themselves are designed for people who are 50+ in age and unfamiliar with exercise and healthy living. That means that I don't fit in very well, but the way I look at it, I'll see how adaptive they are with their program for a 37 year old that knows about training plans, diet logs and periodization. So far the physiotherapist have been pretty conservative, but I'm still technically in my eight week healing period. I have Rehab every Monday and Wednesday. The sessions consist of a consultation (5min) with the Physio, an aerobic workout (40 min), a set of cool down exercises consisting of weights and stretching and then a "talk" about some healthy exercise topic (i.e. hydration). During the exercises portion of my sessions this week I had to use 1lb weights (thats right one (1) pound) because I'm still in the healing period. Fortunately I have checked my ego permanently at the door of the OHI.