It’s time to sit down once again with a beverage of your choice and chat – I’ll remind you that I don’t like coffee or tea so my drink of choice today will be water. Let’s chat about things other than just running, cycling, strength training, yoga, and our most recent injuries. Sound good? I’ll go first…

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that I’m feeling great and I’m enjoying getting back outside for my bike rides, especially with the weather being so nice recently. Competing with my cycling friends in the Great American Ride has lit a fire under me as I work my way back to getting on goal pace for riding 5,000 miles again in 2025.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d give you an update on my health. After last Friday’s exploratory surgery to determine how to treat my hydroureteronephrosis (a complication from my appendectomy in February), I got about the best news I could have gotten. The doctor inserted a stent opening up my slowly recovering and relaxing ureter – something she didn’t expect on finding after the CT urogram studies – and told me she suspected I wouldn’t need the dreaded follow-up surgery. On Wednesday my stent was removed and I developed none of the expected post-procedure discomforts and was immediately able to go off the meds I’d been on during this ordeal. I have a kidney function test scheduled for mid-May and if that goes well, I’ll be able to put this saga to rest.

At my mid-March visit to the ER while out of town I was told to follow up with a cardiologist once I got home. Why you might ask would I need to see a cardiologist? Because I presented with acute abdominal pain and nausea as well as minor chest pain (I kept telling them that I had just started lifting again after taking several weeks off and I was pretty sure it was muscular from doing flies). Anyway, abdominal pain, nausea, chest pain, the fact that I’m a female, plus my age all pointed toward a possible heart attack. No worries, all turned out well with the various tests my new cardiologist ordered and I don’t need to see him again for a year.

My parents were right, once you get older it seems like you spend more time in the doctor’s office than anywhere else. In fact, I’ve had so many doctor’s appointments and tests that I haven’t had enough consecutive days open to go down to the farm to see my mom in over a month.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that I’ve hurt myself  WHILE SLEEPING a couple of times in the last three weeks. First, I woke up with a badly swollen left wrist on a Thursday morning – fortunately, the swelling was gone by the following Monday. The next injury was right arm and hand numbness which woke me up overnight and lasted for about 15 minutes after I got up for several days. I switched out my pillow and neither problem has come back. I think it had to do with how I was holding my hands/arms during the night with the old pillow.

The ladies at the 55+ gym where I teach a class were laughing at me and said that I now fit perfectly into their group since I now get injured just sleeping. LOL

 

And speaking of sleep, if we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that Fitbit has determined that my sleep profile is now a bear which tells me Fitbit has no idea what it’s talking about. I do not “settle nightly into a long, undisrupted sleep.” I used to get up at least one time a night to go to the bathroom, but since this whole ureter/kidney thing started, I’m up about four times a night.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that I’ve been on a reading tear recently and have read:

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that I dropped my phone on the trail yesterday while pulling it out of my pocket to take a picture. I’ve taken it out of my pocket hundreds of time during rides and this was the first time dropping it. The screen’s protective cover got chipped along the edges, but otherwise the phone seems fine.

 

If we were having coffee…..

I’d tell you that I thought of two more funny things to share during yesterday’s bike ride, but forgot them both by the time I got home. 😉

 

 

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Today I’m joining Deborah at Confessions Of A Mother Runner and Coco at Running With Perseverance for their monthly Ultimate Coffee Date linkup which goes live the first Friday of every month.  Be sure to stop by their blogs for a cup of coffee and to say hello; and while you’re there, be sure to check out some of the other bloggers who are participating in the linkup.

 

  • Questions:
  • • How often do you crack your phone’s protective cover? ~ I’m clumsy, so more often than I’d like to admit.
  • • Have you ever hurt yourself while sleeping? ~ This was a first, I think.
  • • If we were having coffee, what would you tell me?

 

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