New life!

Sep 03, 2010

  It's been seven months since my surgery and I can honestly say  now that I have a new life.  My brain is starting to catch up and I actually smile and feel like a "normal" person now.  I'm enjoying everything I do so much more.  I'm enjoying buying and wearing clothes.  I'm enjoying that people can't imagine I used to weigh 93lbs more than I do now.  

My husband and I are on a road trip this weekend, traveling up to Vermont to meet up with two of our sons who have been hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the past few months.  We stopped a bit ago and while my husband ran in for a potty break I took a little hike up a hill a bit in the distance to take a photo.  I was thinking as I smiled to myself, not long ago I wouldn't have wanted to do this.  When my husband came out and saw my photo he said, "you hiked up there"  When I said "yes", he said, "remember when you wouldn't have wanted to do something like that?"  I smiled and said I was thinking the same thing.

One thing that has had me a bit sad is that my husband hasn't said too much about the physical changes in me.  Last week he told me privately that when he saw me walking down the street with our grandson he thought to himself, "she's hot!".  :)  

Oh, and a funny thing happened last weekend at Holiday World and Splashin' Safari (in addition to me riding the super slides with my 5yr old grandson).  When we arrived and my husband went ahead with the boys, my daughter and I went to rent a wagon.  When we met up with my husband he said to our daughter, "you aren't gonna believe when I saw you in the distance I thought, who has Ashley picked-up.  It took me a few seconds to realize it was your mother (me).  I LOVED IT!  

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