It’s been three weeks since I had my surgery. The pain and swelling are nearly gone. I haven’t needed ice or pain meds for a week.
In a few days I’ll start some light exercising. Woohoo!
I think the surgical pain is now no worse than the pain I had before surgery – that’s a significant improvement over my initial few days.
All I do now is walk a lot. Wiggles and I do 3-4 walks of 45 minutes each. The surgeon cleared me for swimming but my city has not reopened our public pools and won’t until at least June 26 or later. Thus far, every lockdown has been extended on the last day so I have low expectations that this will be any different. It is frustrating.
I’ve been drumming, painting and writing a lot. I reached a breakthrough in painting where I can now paint without a tutorial or sample. I have developed a style, learned to compose and can see when a painting isn’t working and fix it.
There are protests around the country and in my city. We’ve had curfews for the last 4 nights to (supposedly) protect our citizens and property.
I am surprised to see how quickly our society has become accustomed to being put in lockdown by our government. Pre-pandemic, I would have said it would never happen or if it did, that we wouldn’t accept it for long.
I was so wrong. We’ve been locked down for 3 months. We’ve accepted sketchy data and pseudo-scientific explanations for somewhat poorly thought out pandemic responses.
I am disappointed with how little critical thinking seems to be going on right now.
This includes me which is why I am trying to limit my opinions to topics where I have experience and ideally expertise
I will be really glad when I can get back into hardcore exercise and distance myself from much of this nonsense.