making a comeback!

Yet another GOOSE EGG for me!!! I'm begining to wonder if I'll even know how to run if I ever get back out there! We are still at the hospital and I was going to get out and do some running today, but I really like to be here when the Doc's make rounds but that has been an all day process the last few days and I hate to leave because then I end up missing them when I leave the room. The med student rounds about 6:00 a.m. and then the resident comes between 7:00 a.m.- 10:00 and the the actual surgeon comes between 10:00a.m. untill 10:00 at night. Last night I waited untill around 1:00 a.m. when she was supposed to come by and then didn't see anyone untill this morning. I do the stairs every time I get something to eat, and try to add in extra sets of stairs when I dare leave long enough to stretch and get out of the room. I even did leg lifts and squats in the room yesterday but I'm sure that it's not enough to make up for the 3 square meals that I'm eating here due to lack of any other form of real entertainment!!! Hoping to maybe go home tomorrow, my body will thank me when I can get back on my regular shedule of running and eating better. Im not sure if I''ll even dare go near the scales when I do get back home. Jamie is doing pretty well, she feels good, but there have been complications and we may end up going home with a PIC line for some home I.V antibiotics and we will be doing wet dressing changes in her incision for up to a month and then more surgery..... hopefully things will heal sooner and we can get the next surgery done sooner and be over with this whole mess! At this point I don't really care just getting home and sleeping in an actual bed and getting to be out of this little room will be the best thing ever!!!

So I was out going for a quick walk to strech my legs and I saw a sign that said that if you walk the breeze way between Primary Childrens and the U of U 11 times that it equals 1 mile, so I hurried and walked the mile. I will get back later and do another one or two. I realize it's not running but it's better than nothing. Sure wish that I would have seen that sooner, but the other good news is that they finally decided no pic line and that we should be OTTA HERE tomorrow!!!

We made it home yesterday afternoon, and it is so nice to get back to a more normal routine! Jamie and I went to bed around 10:30 last night and I told her to yell if she needed a pain pill or anything...I got up to do the youngest ones hair and tell her goodbye before she went to school and went back to bed. Neither of us moved again untill 9:30 a.m. I think that we were both totally worn out!

Made one of my regular 5 mile routes, felt a little slow and sluggish, but it was good to be back out and I hope it will actually improve my energy level! Ran without music and planned out what was left of my day, I'm going to have to be a bit more organized now with a lot of things that my daughter is going to require over the next couple of weeks untill the next surgery. But I've got a plan for dinner and everything else through the run and so now I can just relax and get it done!!!

Thanks again to all you wonderful bloggies and your prayers and concern you guys are a great group of people with BIG hearts and kind words!!!

Nice run today, legs felt pretty good once I got going and felt like pushing the pace a little (for a slow person) average pace 9:30, finally felt like I got something clicking in this run and it felt nice! Although I was complaining about the cold this morning, once I got warm it felt pretty nice and I thought of those hot days of summer and decided it could be worse! Just glad to get the run in today!!!

Had to runa little "cautiously" this morning, Mr.Jack Frost had his way with us last night and the sheet of ice covered with frost made things a little tricky! With the "splat" that I took last week in SLC, I'm not ready to go skating along face first again! So I just ran easy and carefully. Although it took me an hour to convince myself to get out there because it looked so cold with the blanket of frost all around it again wasn't too bad once I did, and very peaceful and beautiful too! Just glad it's Friday and I'm hoping for a nice quiet relaxing weekend to recharge a little before I have to head back to work on Sunday! (thinking about a long run tomorrow, depending on sleep and weather to try and catch up on some lost miles over the last week or so!) Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

I almost didn't make it out today, but at the last minute before giving up and just taking a shower I willed myself out the door. It was soooo nice out, was able to dress down a bit and that felt really nice too! As for the run once again, it felt pretty hard? I can't figure it out, all of my runs except for one this week have really worked me over. Todays 7.7 felt more like about 12 but at least I got it in and hopefully next week things will feel a little better! Did love the weather and could really get used to that but I hear that we have a bit of a storm coming so I guess we just enjoy it while it lasts and look forward to spring when it decides to show up. I know that it's a little early to think about but we have got to start seeing a few of these nice days here and there as we are inching into Feb!!