Day 21: Three Week Anniversary

It's been three weeks since the big surgery and it's felt longer! To "celebrate" I decided to go visit a friend for the day and get out of my house. I got up early and drove about 2 hours to my friend's in the outer Chicago suburbs. We then went to the airport and picked up her younger sister who was visiting for the weekend, her last time away from school for almost 6 months because of the riggers of being a student athlete. Then, we went to lunch at a nice Italian food restaurant. I had the spaghetti, which was really good. The girls got a kick out of me eating, because every time I stopped eating to cut up the spaghetti my mouth and chin would be covered in sauce (I still can't feel these areas). It also looked like a 5 year old had just eaten at the table when I was done. There was sauce stains and noodles all over the table linens surrounding my plate. But, it tasted great!

Later, after DQ for dessert and some rest at her place I began to have more pain, similar to yesterday. I decided I should take some Ibuprofen to make me more comfortable, which it did. This helped as we went putt-putt golfing and I beat both of them, but I only beat Ashley by 2 strokes. Since her sister lost, and is incredibly competitive, we had to find another "activity" for us all to do so that she had a chance to win. We ended up playing cards back at Ashley's place, where Ashley beat us both, badly. Then, I ate my left over spaghetti from lunch and hit the road to get back home before it was too late. It was great to see Ashley, Courtney, and Ted before I start school and am bogged down with school work. As I was driving I realized how much that Ibuprofen helped, because it was starting to wear off and I was getting sore. I

t wasn't too bad just an annoying pain. It probably didn't help that I had a 20 minutes phone conversation, either. By the time I got home I was exhausted and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow, maybe slightly before if that's possible. It was a good day, despite the little pain I had.