After six weeks I have made it back to Calgary for a good, for now. WE packed up the apartment, stored the things we were going to use when we return for the transplant, dropped off the modem at the providers office and made it home with only a minor incident. That being a truck blowing a tire directly behind us on the highway. We were unharmed, as was the everyone else on the road, but it was pant-crappingly loud.
I am glad the program is done, this means I can move on to the next step, but I have noticed a few things that are less pleasant since being home. One being that I am feeling the same way you would feel at the end of the school term or after a race; spent and ready for rest. That "time to sit and be merry" feeling, which in some cases is fine. But now it is more like momentum killer. I tired doing a work out on Friday and I got through most of it, but I did not have near the same push I did before. This may be the switch from machines to free weights, the 500 meter rise in elevation, or having to stop and re-set up the weights every time I switch exercises but it just wasn't there like it was before.
Now this could all be just due to me being sick. Yes Peter has the sniffles, and by sniffles I mean I have been coughing up yellow stuff for a few days now. I knew by about Thursday that something wasn't quiet right, Friday after the workout I saw all the writing on the wall. So I got up Saturday had breakfast, showered and got dressed and headed over to the PLC. I called ahead to Lung doctor on call, like I was told by the team in Edmonton, and she said come down to the emergency department and tell them to page her when i got there. Total time from me getting there to leaving with what I needed...four hours. I got admitted, x-rayed, did blood work, saw the doctor, and got the prescriptions I needed in that time. I have had scheduled appointments that took longer than that. They do an amazing job getting you in, getting you where you need to be, and getting things ready for the next person when you're done. Really can't say enough good things about them right now. Yeah I destroyed my(and my mom's) Saturday, but I am out ahead of a possible lung infection before it can get a foot hold, so i would throw this in the win box.
My back is still bothering me. I should go get a massage or something to loosen it up. I got a heating pad and it seems to help a bit, though the problem it more likely something that needs time a rest to heal. If that was it I would just skip the upper body part of the work out and focus on the legs(which i am probably going to do anyway). The issue being when you have a sore back it can make it painful to take deep breaths. So even without realizing it to keep you from hurting yourself you body takes smaller breaths. This shallow breathing means that deeper airways don't open up and clear out the goo that can build up, and you get place for bugs to grow. Hens the issue I had to deal with this weekend.
Thus the landing back on home turf wasn't as bad as going from a pickup truck onto a gravel road, but it didn't feel like bouncing into a swimming pool full of teddy bears either. As long as I bounce back from this slump quickly I don't see it impacting my overall progress
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