Welcome Back!

It's been about a month since I was working in the office. Up to my surgery I had been working from home because of all of the appointments and pre-op procedures, and then after my surgery and infection incident, well there's that. Had some down time of rest and recovery and have been working from home ever since.

I needed a change of scenery badly. Just here, talking on the phone, lunches and dinners with friends, and talking to myself, I wanted to see my colleagues and even with us just sitting at our desks working within the silence, it felt good to be there.

I had a meeting in Calley Park right outside my office building. We sat under a tree and discussed activities for upcoming events. I felt splendid.

But first, let me talk about getting there. Haven't been traveling great distances since my surgery but oh boy, I never knew how much car rides affected the boobs. The dips and dives and potholes and cracks! I had to hold and press her down so she wouldn't jiggle so much. Because WOW! One street we traveled this morning is pretty much falling apart. Probably even as I type this more and more asphalt is breaking away. I was so thankful I was riding with a friend!

I had no shame holding my breast as we made our way through the city!

As I approached my area, I noticed that old movie posters had been swapped out for current titles, thank goodness. Except for mine. This one was not to be touched, ever. I walked over to my work station and felt it. The warrior. The woman king indeed!! Absolutely appropriate!

The day progressed pretty well. The healing pains are there, the after surgery aches are there, but God's comfort and joy covered them all. I had my music going, ladies of jazzy soul, Phoebe Snow, Natalie Cole, Phyllis Hyman, Minnie Riperton, and the great, Angela Bofill. Not that I don't listen to music at home, I do every day, but it just had a different attitude in a different environment.

As the day progressed a friend asked me how I was holding up, how was the pain? I realized I didn't have that much pain. At home, sometimes the pain seems to linger a bit longer when it hits. I knew that it was how I sit when I'm working at my dining-desk. But when she asked me I noticed how I was sitting. The light bulb when on.

At home my arms, under arm area, rub against my skin on my upper sides. So as I'm typing or writing, there is friction, which causes little pings of pain. My keyboard is on top of my dining-desk, but at the office my keyboard is lower, on a keyboard tray. When I'm typing my arms are lower and not so high so there wasn't as much friction. The blessing of ergonomics!

I had a delicious salmon poke bowl for lunch, sat in the sun for a bit and became a little weary. I wanted to come home and rest my arm up on the arm rest of the couch to give my lymph node incision a breather from the touchiness of my skin.

As I embark on my course of treatment it may be another month before I make it back to the lot. I am so grateful that I am able to work from home........

....and I am grateful to be able to have those times of scenery change when I need to.