Post-surgery blogifyingness

Hello again! It's been ages. But I felt like, now that I will be off for a few weeks due to hernia surgery recovery, I ought to share some of my thoughts, insights and learnings from this reflective time.

So as it stands, I am in day 2 of post-surgery. From what I am told my recovery seems to be doing very well. After surgery, when I had to sit up, stand up, do the whole walking test thing, it seemed the nurse was massively surprised by what I could do so quickly. Here's where my brother questioned the legitimacy of such claims: He wonders if they always say stuff like that? I don't know... I've never had surgery before. :)

I do think that, with other stuff that had happened leading up to surgery time, that perhaps it is symptomatic of my pain-threshold. I am beginning to think maybe I have a pretty high one - not as big-time as some others I know, but probably above average. I wonder, is this a good thing, or is it bad? I suppose what I am getting at is, perhaps I need to take more seriously some minor hurts, while others might need to be on the floor, rolling around in agony before it can be taken as legitimate injury. Any thoughts on that?

Anyway... I have been pretty mobile already! I am making a conscious decision for today, at the least, to be as immobile as possible. I'll have to do a lot of conscious decision-making regarding how active I become, and how quickly I do things. I'm pretty much an all-or-nothing guy, so I'm going to have to err on the side of "nothing" for a while. Which is to say I will still get up here and there, just really minimize it.

So this week, there isn't a lot of plans until the weekend. This recovery period has allotted me some time to get out and travel, see some dear friends and such. I am SO excited to get to Vancouver next weekend! My dear cousin Mike and his wife Melanie just returned from their sabbatical in France, so it will be awesome to see them. Apparently, it is also a mutual friend's birthday/housewarming party weekend, so that'll be fun. I can't wait for the weekend, to see lots of great people and a whole bunch of great sights. Hernia recovery permitting, of course.