No weights for me for a bit
Jul. 28th, 2008 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperWent and saw Dr. Towbin this afternoon, who as I expected aspirated the swollen bit on my chest. Y'all don't want to know how much fluid he took out of there. But it was a good clean drain, and no sign of infection or anything. I strongly suspect I must have just damaged something in there trying to do chest-related weights exercises too soon. Meh.
So he slathered some antibiotic on there and taped me up and I'm supposed to leave the tape and cotton on for a couple of days. Then more antibiotic and bandaids. But no weights. At least, no chest-related weight exercises. I need to rethink my exercise strategy Wednesday night. I may have to just switch to doing treadmill for a bit.
Two things learned from this experience:
The 257 drops off at 128th and 116th, and I can walk right along 128th to come up on Evergreen the back way. There's a footpath that goes up the hill and right into the parking garage--and in fact as I was coming in,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird drove past me as she was coming in to meet me and park.
Also--though I kind of knew this already--my pain tolerance is fairly high. I tend to quite underestimate the amount of pain I'm in and don't realize exactly how much I was hurting until after the source of pain is gone. I was a little lightheaded just from sheer relief after Towbin was done.
I'm to come back in on the 14th and we'll see what's what then. He said "maybe" when I mentioned that I'd arranged to have the reconstruction done in September, which concerns me a bit, but we'll see how I continue to heal up.
So he slathered some antibiotic on there and taped me up and I'm supposed to leave the tape and cotton on for a couple of days. Then more antibiotic and bandaids. But no weights. At least, no chest-related weight exercises. I need to rethink my exercise strategy Wednesday night. I may have to just switch to doing treadmill for a bit.
Two things learned from this experience:
The 257 drops off at 128th and 116th, and I can walk right along 128th to come up on Evergreen the back way. There's a footpath that goes up the hill and right into the parking garage--and in fact as I was coming in,
solarbird drove past me as she was coming in to meet me and park.Also--though I kind of knew this already--my pain tolerance is fairly high. I tend to quite underestimate the amount of pain I'm in and don't realize exactly how much I was hurting until after the source of pain is gone. I was a little lightheaded just from sheer relief after Towbin was done.
I'm to come back in on the 14th and we'll see what's what then. He said "maybe" when I mentioned that I'd arranged to have the reconstruction done in September, which concerns me a bit, but we'll see how I continue to heal up.