Still recovering

A lot of couch time. Also I'm not able to fly with a bubble in my eye. So weekend trip to Boston is canceled along with vacation plans for next week.

Also no beers since the surgery. See how long this lasts!

Bandage off

Check-up went fine this afternoon. Bandage is off and my depth of field vision is back after being sorely missed. Doing OK staying on my left side as much as possible. So I'm off work for a bit. And it was great yesterday that last minute folks could drive me and look after my kid in an emergency. Everyone is more freaked about the eye surgery than I am. Understandable. I got use to a lot of the issues on first surgery. Then I had no option - needed to do it to have sight saved. I was meant to be in Spain on vacation this week. Between uncertainty over my job remaining in Houston, a friend's devastating car accident and this surgery - I've no idea what I would have to deal with all this from Spain. During Hurricane Ike I was in France - and that was just one thing!

Emergency surgery

Yep - eye surgery #2. 7 months after the first one. Over weekend noticed a dark shadow creeping across my right eye from left. Realized it wasn't my nose. So got an appointment first thing Monday and a referral for 2pm to confirm needed a different procedure that this time involved anaesthesia. In St Josephs by 5pm and freaked out at them putting in a IV. They wheeled me into an OR and a funky procedure I got to see most of, and luckily feel nothing until the end when they got me on some of the fun pain killers. Then the interesting part of staying in a certain position as much as possible until the eye is fully healing - about 7 days initially and then rest for another week. The procedure was cryotherapy (freezing), to seal the retina to the back wall of the eye again and pneumatic retinopexy which describes the injection of a gas bubble into the vitreous space inside the eye enabling the gas bubble to push the retinal tear back against the wall of the eye and close the tear.

So spending the week minimising activity and seeing a bubble in my eye. So now it is time to let the eye heal - and heal well - so I can get back to normal.

Bike ride

14 mile bike ride - Terry Hershey park. Today was cooler (back to normal for May)

UK Election / Swimming

Was up late Thursday watching live returns for UK hung Parliament.

Hot spell - so pool warm enough now.

St. George Marathon - Oct 2nd

I now have a summer training goal. After many recomendations to do this I entered the lottery and got in:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We would like to personally congratulate you on being selected for the 2010 St George Marathon. This year you were 1 of the 7400 lucky runners to be chosen out of a record-breaking 11,000 registrants. We will be hosting runners from 50 states and 17 countries. We would like to thank you for your interest in our event and we look forward to seeing each of you cross the finish line in October!
There are a couple things we need to make you aware of at this time:
• Our Runner’s Guide can be found at http://www.stgeorgemarathon.com/race/runguide.php. This will give you all the information you will need to know for race weekend and should answer most questions you may have

Sleeping

Catch up on sleep.... Still stressed!

Memorial Park

6 miles. Sloowwww. Memorial Park. Late night/stress/up early from work news.

New Bike!

12 miles: An antedote to merger madness. Finally upgraded bike.

Adult pool party!

A fundraiser.