Real life

Another post from the present: this weekend I am participating in a three day workshop in Denver. This is the first event I have not canceled since my injury. I was determined to keep this on my schedule so I booked a room in a Denver hotel to save myself the long drive each morning and night. The drive is a problem because while driving fluid pools in my leg and foot, which makes it even more difficult to sit in the workshop all day. Today was very difficult because I had the drive plus eight hours of mostly sitting. I spent most of the workshop fidgeting, with my leg alternatively propped in a chair, laid across my other leg, or on the floor. Despite wearing compression hose my leg swelled by about ½ inch all around. This evening I was about to pass out but sucked it up and did an hour in the CPM machine (more about this in a later blog). The CPM bends my leg for me and it did help the swelling go down a bit. Tomorrow will still be rough, but at least I only have a short drive from the hotel. Also, we will be outside and the cool air should help me be more comfortable than a hot classroom. Although it is painful and uncomfortable, being at this workshop makes me feel a bit like I am returning to my real life, as opposed to this weird life of rehab that I have been living for four months.