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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The 7 Day Stretch

So the big event for the day was to see my Surgical Doctor 3 weeks after my hernia surgery. I was really hoping for him to let start up my neurotic O.C.D. impulse of over-training and most often over-racing.. I even packed my gym clothes so that I could take a light run on the treadmill after my appointment..But I was DENIED.

Doctor: "everything looks good," How you feel.

Bubba: Sometimes I get a sharp pain that last a couple of seconds and what is this thing that feels like a PVC pipe in my southern region. :0

Doctor: you should be fine, and that is scar tissue..

Bubba: And yeah.

Doctor: After a month you can do whatever you want. No running or activities that might cause undue stretching until then..

Bubba: A month from now or month from surgery?

Doctor: One more week and then you should be okay to do "whatever"..

Leave the doctor's office tell my wife my sob story.. No sympathy of course. But what is one more week. I guess not to long.

What is 7 more days?
7 more days of eating White Hen pastries.. Cool.

What is 168 more hours?
I could finish my "Age of Empires" Video game.

What is 10,080 more minutes?
I could do stuff around the house or tinker with my bike? Is there really a choice here..

But for now I will take a minute to talk about my neurotic dog. I actually have two neurotic dogs. But one is better than a local weather station. It acts all goofy before a thunderstorm hits my area. Actually tears up the house looking for a hiding place. But somehow finds its way into our bathtub this day. The crazy thing he hates water and has not taken a bath in years, but somehow still smells like Doritos potato chips, go figure that out.

Now back to my doughnuts.

posted by RunBubbaRun at 7:55 PM

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hang in there - you're so close! Someday you'll look back at this time with nostalgia... doughnuts.

On your comment - yep, I'm in for Nationals. I've gotta have something while all you others are training for IM.

9:34 AM  
Blogger E-Speed said...

hope the 7 days goes by quickly!

7:57 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hope the hernia surgery recovery goes well. My son had hernia surgery about 16months ago. It was slow going at first, but everything is good now.

Hang in there! :)

8:20 PM  
Blogger Rachel said...

Enjoy the time off. I know it's hard to do but sometimes it's good to be forced to have some down-time. Try and go on some walks so you don't go too stir-crazy!

12:21 PM  
Blogger Trisaratops said...

Hope you feel better soon! mmmmm....doughnuts. TriAl loves doughnuts...on our way to Musselman HIM in NY we had to stop and he got 2 of em! He twisted my arm so hard I had to have one, too...and I never even eat any doughnuts! ha ha

(he didn't have to really twist too hard....LOL)

3:45 PM  
Blogger qcmier said...

Mmmm doughnuts...

10:45 PM  
Blogger qcmier said...

Yeah, Trisaratops, I forgot about that. Too bad she wasn't with us before we went to IM Wisconsin because I stopped for cannolis.

10:47 PM  

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