I just returned from my first ...
session of Physical Therapy in the pool!

It was awesome - I loved every second of the 45 minutes I spent in the water. My Therapist Ronnie kept scolding me to slow down and not to push myself so hard (because of how I'll feel tomorrow).

My next session is on Monday of next week - but I now have a pass to the gym & pool and can return anytime I want aka whenever I can bum a ride from Shellie or Jeff.

My weight is slowly increasing - as of this morning around 185 pounds.
- posted by Richard @ 5:55 PM 2 comments

 
Continuing ...
sameness.

Was fun watching the rain storm today. Went for a walk between raindrops - maybe a third of a mile.

Feeling a little better every day. Weight static for the past two days at 181.0 pounds.

Today I ate the following:
Grape Nuts with milk (no sugar)
Leftover macaroni & cheese with ground beef and pepper jack cheese added
Two mandarin orange fruit cups
Large Granny Smith apple
2/3 of a large enchilada with beef, cheese and green bell peppers
One peanut
Two large servings of Caesar salad

Expecting more sameness tomorrow but with less football.
- posted by Richard @ 9:49 PM 1 comments

 
Alive and ...
well-ish in Ukiah (Redwood Valley) at Shellie and Jeff's.

Released from the hospital last Monday at 6:30pm. Denied InPatient Rehab because I taught myself to walk over my final weekend in the hospital.

Still losing weight, but at a slower rate than last week. Latest 181.3 pounds - less than I weighed at the end of high school and ~25 pounds less than when I was admitted to the hospital.
- posted by Richard @ 7:09 PM 1 comments

 
Just reclining in my hospital bed ...
weeping while thinking about Jim Mills.

Until just now, I don't think I realized the incredible influence he had on my life during an extremely difficult stage before and after my parents' nuclear divorce.

I am SO grateful that I was able to participate with Jim on:
* one multiple day trip down the Royal Gorge with a group of 20-40 (the sad incident of the C.H.P. Officer and the bear)
* at least one two or three night trip to Green Valley (with the Dunham brothers)
* one off-road motorcycle trip from Colfax to Foresthill to the Mumford Bar trail and back (I was on my Honda Trail 90. About 410 less horsepower than the others).

Thank you Jim! I am a better person for having known you.

...

Still weeping.
- posted by Richard @ 9:00 PM 1 comments