Dr. Tanya, over at Salted Caramel, has this prompt called “5 Things,” where she asks us to list five things about a particular topic. For this week’s topic, she wants to know what five things distract us from blogging.
Tanya said that she began the draft for this post way back in August 2022. And if she had posted it back then, my answers would be very different than they are today, since the first five months of 2023 have been a whole different ballgame for me personally.
Prior to this past January, the most significant injury I had was when I tore my Achilles tendon in my right ankle while playing basketball and had to have surgery to repair the tendon. I remember the pain of the injury and having my leg in a cast for six weeks after the surgery and having use to crutches and even a few weeks of physical therapy after the cast was removed. But even with all that, I was back at work and doing fine within a week of the surgery.
Of course, I was 30 years younger then than I am now, but five months ago I fractured my hip and had emergency partial hip replacement surgery. I was shocked at how that drained my energy. I continued to post a little, but way less than usual because I just didn’t have the energy. And even today, I still don’t have the same energy I had before the accident.
So distraction number 1 is a lack of energy.
Distraction number 2 is going to physical therapy three times a week and spending at least two hours each day at home doing my rehab exercises.
Distraction number 3 is watching TV, especially when we watch a streaming channel like Netflix, which often releases a whole series season on a single date. I’ll start out watch the first episode and eight hours later I realize that I watched the entire season in one sitting. Now I have wait 18 to 24 months for season two. And by the time that comes out I will have completely forgotten what happened in the first season and have to binge watch that all over again.
Distraction number 4 is sleeping. If I didn’t have to sleep at night and occasionally take a nap or two during the day, I’d be able to have more time to dedicate to blogging.
Distraction number 5 is spending quality time with our dog, who hates to be ignored and demands a lot of attention.
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The Duke is obviously jealous of my computer. He tries whacking it with his paw and I swear he’d take it out of the house through the doggy door if I’d let him. He wants attention — food too, but most of all, ATTENTION.
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OMG. I didn’t know about your fracture. I hope you are not in any significant pain now.
Netflix is indeed a distraction, especially when one can binge watch whole seasons.
Remember when we used to wait a whole week for the next installment of a TV show?
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I’m still having residual aches and pains, but it’s no longer “significant,” which is a good thing.
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That is exactly what I meant by “significant”, the residual aches and pains continue for variable times for different people.
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I’m glad you’re doing your physio so regularly and at home exercises too. Hopefully the energy levels will improve soon
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I forgot about sleeping! I could do several more posts per day if it weren’t for that pesky need to sleep 😴
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Lots of distractions eh? 😀
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All reasonable distractions if you ask me.
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