Quote Originally Posted by SadieKate
Bad news about the lungs, but good news you know now and can start the work. How's the running?

I watched my first knee arthroscopy. Pretty cool. I was prepped for general anesthesia (just in case) so I was kind of fuzzy about the details. It was like it was somebody else's knee on the TV monitor.
Man I would love to see the arthroscopy! They even put up a curtain for my c-section. I wish I'd seen more of that. Maybe they switched the PP on me while I couldn't look. Nah - stubborn, crazy weird, annoying, talkative, blonde. She's mine.

The running.... well, I have been doing a lot of spin and plan to run this weekend. Stacy and I are doing part of the Dipsea which will be good. I just have not had the time to go outside - what with the Tour and the global warming and all! But all in all I am feeling good.

I think the lung impairment will be able to be improved. I have to believe that. It is probably actual asthma or something. Whatever. Mike has a friend who's 70 and has like 1/4 of his lung left (he was a firefighter and has smoke/burn issues) and he kicks our butt on every hill we climb, so I figure it can't be that bad!

Funny, I have a friend who spins with me - she's a psychologist - and she was telling me this morning how amazed she was about my attitude. Well, what am I going to do? Hole up on the sofa and eat mint milanos? As tempting as that sounds, bottom line is - I could EASILY have died and I didn't. Sure there are some hurdles. But it could have been SO much worse, and I am not throwing it away. So there!

And one of these days, I will be able to beat the Grand Pois up a hill again.