Hernia Scheduled.

Well been to see the surgeon. He again had me drop my trousers and this time the wife was there with me. As I lay there on the table some guy feeling me and having me cough I can see my wife sitting there watching. Though it didn’t bother me it was weird to have her watching. He did confirm I do have a hernia running down into my scrotum and it is probably pushing against the nerves the run there causing my pains.

He looked at scheduling me as early as Friday but the other doctor was not available. So now I am scheduled for 7:30am surgery on May 8th. They will go in and patch the hernia from the inside. Then when he is done with that surgery the other doctor will do the vasectomy while I am out. I will be getting it all done at the same time. Then the rest of the day Thursday and Friday I will be sitting around healing. Come online and chat with me and keep me sitting it is going to be a tough day.

Part of the discussion was will I be able to run the Bolder Boulder. He never gave me an answer either way but I took it as probably. He said don’t get myself into anything I can’t get out of. He also said he has had a patient take a month to heal and he had a 17 year old patient heal and back playing tackle football in 4 days. So it will depend on my tolerance. At this point it will be just over 2 weeks after the surgery to the Bolder Boulder so as I told my wife, as she frowned at me, that I was going to pay for and register and I could always not run it.

I told my wife I wanted to because a bunch of my friends are running it and I really would like to be with them. She said well if you can’t run it you can still go and hang with and support them. And I will hopefully be able to run with them and if not then I will be there to support them.

Buggy Thoughts

Bunny you saw U2 at red Rocks? That was in 1983. Wow just typing that date seems old. I was a junior in High School so here is my thought I know I am older then you so unless they came another time you must have went with your parents? OR were you conceived at that concert? Lol. I need more details please. I was also glad to hear you are just on a blogging break. Everyone needs a break now and then. Well EXCEPT for me. :)

I get to go get my final crown put on my tooth that I broke at my birthday dinner a month ago. YAY one medical item finished with only the bill to pay. :(

Last night I was riding in the back of my buggy over to my sisters. My son is learning to drive the stick shift, wife was in passenger seat. It was the first time I have ridden in the back of this car and with him yanking the gas and clutch was an interesting ride. We were at a stop light and I heard my name called. I looked back to see a guy I know and have run with many times. He asked if I had been running to which I replied nope not in over a month. He said he had not run now in over 2 months himself. He was recovering from a stress fracture on the top of his foot. He would have to start running now in 10 minute increments. This gave me two points of insight.

1) Negative side - DAMN, see how fast we lose the ability to run and now I know I am down to like barely getting through 2 miles. I get a bit upset and don’t want to go through the PAIN to build up to running distances again. It took months to build up the last time.
2) Positive side - If this surgery for hernia and time off to fix my other issues (heel pain, and inflammation) then I have some motivation and someone to start building backup with as he will be in that process as well. He is an awesome guy to run with as he is very helpful and supportive.

So there I gave both sides this time.

I been doing a bit of reading on the Hernia thing and found some interesting information. For one as I read more of the feelings I was like YES that did hurt or I have felt that. Such as the feeling of hunger pains, pains in my right groin area or pains when I coughed. So I am a bit more comfortable that we are on the right track.

Results of MRI are in.

I know gator will freak if he doesn’t get a post or answer.

I been and got my results. The MRI showed that there is a lot of inflammation in my pubic bone area. It is called osteitis pubis. He and I talked a bit more and discussed what I had been doing. No running (OK I was an idiot, but it was only 2 miles). Spinning should not bother it and in fact it doesn’t and I seem to feel better when I am done spinning. After more discussion and talking about the pain being there even when not exercising and where the pain was he did more reading and then checked me again in a few more ways.

He had me stand up again and again did a bit more searching for a hernia. He tested and pushed and prodded and suddenly he had me jumping in pain.

Doctor: Did that hurt?

Me: Yes

Doctor: How about now?

Me: YES!

Doctor: Can you give me a cough?

Me: Tried a measly sputter. “NO not with you pushing on that (as I am yanking away). Now quit pushing there.”

Doctor: Here is a number of a great Hernia surgeon.

So apparently, I have this thing called a sports hernia. It is a small hole in the bottom of my stomach that leads into my manhood area on the right side. They will now have to go put a needle in my stomach blow me up like the Michelin Man (I am already FAT enough) and then go in with s scope and put a small patch in my stomach.

Apparently though this should remove all my pain and by the time I get through this surgery and healed I will not have to worry about the Osteitis problem.
I have an appointment now with the Surgeon on Wednesday at 4pm.

INFIERNO SI!

I didn't know it Bunny and Early would see my comments so I put it here as a post. We all want you to continue to post and visit with us.

Yes Gator I was an idiot, and you know what I will be again I am sure :)

How come Renee doesn't post?

What a weekend. Lots of softball with cold windy weather. I can't seem to give up being a part of my daughters sports life. I have coach her softball every year till this year. So I am just a dad now. NOT good enough and I can't just be a watcher. So I am taking over the score keeping. I have never done that but I jumped in with both feet this weekend. Feels like I am part of the game again with her.

I also got a bike ride in. Lots of car repairs and cleaning in my garage. Got my buggy up and ajusted and ready to drive for the summer. Saw a play at the high school. I hope everyone else is having a great weekend.

I D 10 T

Renee the problem with that is that your friend was already home and thus he would not believe she was still there. You missed the part she had come home and said she was at a friend’s all night. But I get the point and I would be say yep my friend was here last night and left just a bit ago. I would always cover for my friends.

To answer gator again, another concert I would love to attend would be Boston at Red Rocks.

If it wasn’t for your comments my post today was going to be easy. I was going to post simply

BUGGY is an IDIOT! (No details)

Northern Conference Winners

Today was a busy day and it ended on a high note. I got off from work and was out on an errand when Joe, a friend called, me out of the blue. He asked me if I wanted to go the Eagles game. The Eagles is a local hockey team. It was a 3-3 series and was game 7 in the play offs for the Northern Conference. Game was in just over an hour.

I said give me 15 minutes and I would let him know. My wife was out of down at a lacrosse game for our son. I had my daughter to get to some church things for the night. So I called my sister and asked her if she could pick up my daughter, she said yes. I then tried to call my wife 3 times with no answer. So I texted her a simple message “I won’t be home tonight.” It wasn’t but 2 minutes after the text went out my phone was ringing. She asked why and I said I was invited to the hockey game. I took care of the daughter and would be home late. She never asked who I was even going with, though I did tell her.

I told Joe about my wife not answering and the conversation above. Then I told him drop me off here my girl friend should be along shortly. He laughed and told the following joke which I had heard before but is funny.

Friendship among women: A woman doesn't come home at night. The next day she tells her husband she slept over at a friend's house. The man calls his wife's ten best friends. None of them know about it.

Friendship among men: A man doesn't come home at night. The next day he tells his wife he slept over at a friend's house. The woman calls her husband's ten best friends. Eight of them say he slept over. Two claim he's still there.

It turned out to be a really great night out with a guy friend. Had some beer, watched some hockey and our home team, the Eagles, won in the end 3-2 becoming the Northern Conference winners. They will be going for the cup now. AND I got in home in time to catch the last half of the Nuggets vs. Lakers game.

MRI Update

The doctor’s office just called me. The nurse said they have the results and the doctor wants to visit with me. So I am scheduled for Monday the 28th at 8:30. Thought I would let you know so Gator can relax and count down the time till then.

No More Whining

No more whining from me. I will though post the results when I hear them, but I would not hold my breath as I bet they find nothing. Any takers on that bet?

The issue of me feeling at times like I have been kicked in the boys is small and trivial when I look at some other things happening around me. I am sucking it up and going to deal with it from a different point of view. I have found that if I exercise, spinning class seems to help and as like today I went in there and after a short period of working out it numbs and goes away. So I am going to start riding first then try running immediately after to have it numb and then I will get my workouts and be a happy Buggy boy again. YES I been hearing murmurs about my mood and I will get that changed, I promise see me smiling ~~smiling~~.

Here is an example. I just heard from my mom about my sister who is at this moment very upset and heading to see a doctor. As most of you know she recently underwent a HUGE surgery where they rebuilt her pelvic floor. She was in the hospital almost at times we think to pass away from the surgery for almost a month. She has been having some problems and had a CAT scan this week. Hers came back with the following.

First she has a hole in her bladder that was caused by her initial surgery. The doctors with all their knives etc must have nicked the bladder causing the hole. Now a piece of her bowels is sticking into the hole and she is looking at a surgery to go in and remove that and sew the hole shut.
Second she has had this hard spot on her stomach. They found that her stomach muscle has herniated through and is now sticking out. I don’t know how all that works but it is not good. So that means surgery for that.

So here is my thought. My sister who is going through all this still brings me a protein shake almost every day and has all these issues and I don’t hear one word of complaint out of her. She barely talks about it with me when I am asking. She is a touch little cookie and a role model I should follow. The only difference though is I write about stuff in a journal, this blog, and people get to read it and she doesn’t.

Cry Baby

Went to my daughter’s tournament today and they won the first game and lost the second game. They seem to have a hard time winning 2 games in a row. The coach said every 4th game they fall apart but I think it is a bit faster than that.

All weekend I been fighting some depression feelings. My wife asked me yesterday what was wrong but I could not really answer her. Only that the pain yesterday was bad all day along with other pressures I was feeling. Today was better though as we returned home from the softball tournament and I went for a bike ride. I rode 8 miles of hills and then ran across a friend that I visited with for a short time. Seeing friends like that seems to help some when you can visit about the ride or run. Afterwards I put the bike up and thought I would try a short run since I was feeling good. I made it all of a 100 feet and the pain sucked and I quit and walked back to my truck in a pissy mood. I am starting to think I am a cry baby with this.

The timing of Emails.

Interesting a friend of mine I met over 10 years ago on a business trip, seen only once since, always kept some contact and I have not had an email from her in almost a year just sent me this.

Think about this for a minute...

If I happened to show up on your door step crying,
Would you Care?

If I called you and asked you to pick me up because something Happened,
Would you come?

If I had one day left, to live my life;
Would you be part of that last day?

If I needed a shoulder to cry on,
Would you give me yours?

Next Week

This post is for Gator. Thanks for checking in and commenting. It is 48 hours not including weekends. :( SO I should know probably Tuesday would be my guess.

Pain all day today.

Last night we picked up some friends and went to have dinner and drinks. We ended up at PF Chang’s and had a blast visiting and eating Lettuce Wraps and drinking, for me 3 Asian Pear Mojitos. We had driven our friends but in the end the wife and I both drank a bit too much and ended up turning the keys over to our friends to drive us and our van home.

We went to their house where we played a game on the PS2 called Rock Band. I ended up drumming, playing Base and Singing vocals for songs. It was a fun game. Here I continued drinking Jeremiah Weed whiskey. My wife and I finally ended up at home a little after midnight where we had to get the kids to their own beds.

We had to get up at 5:30 to prepare and leave for a softball tournament today. As the wife and I got up and moving she said we can’t do that again, as we are too old to drink all night and then have to be softball parents all the next day.

As for me it ended up being a pretty rough day. I had awakened near 5am in pain. The pain today felt like someone had kicked me in my private parts. It was bad enough I took 800 mg of Ibuprofen trying to get it under control. For most of the day until near 6pm it felt like I had been kicked as said and I was recouping from it all day. Once that pain left I seemed to move into my stomach and I have been just in that dull pain the rest of night. As I write this I keep getting stomach cramps.

NO Quitting!!

Hi Buggy

Just wanted to send this email back to you that you sent me over 2 years ago! So, just remember where you started and all the accomplishments you have made over the last few years. Since you are on the WWR team this year you can not quit or retire for at least another 4-5 months so I thought you might just need a little inspiration again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Buggy
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:34 AM
To: Running Friend
Subject: RE: Tues Run

You are very funny and I am glad I have joined your club. I hope I add some fun and challenges to the group as well as the nerdy part. Thanks for doing such a great job.

So with that I had a total of 1:13:24 for my 8 miles last night. That is a
9:11 pace for my night with the 2 rest periods. I also now have a Achilles on my right leg hurting. I will have to baby it some this week but I hope I have not hit a limit to the distance and it is just a stretching thing.

Thanks for the update and you really didn't have to be all that exact.
I just like to know close to what I did so I can watch for improvement.

See you Saturday and thanks for being a good coach and friend.

Buggy

-----Original Message-----
From: Running Friend
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:48 AM
To: Buggy
Subject: Tues Run

Tuesday Night Club,
For those of you who need to be exact in your running diary (Buggy), our run last night was 2.08 miles out so I think you can round it up to 2.1 and call it 4.2 total. We were 19:58 on the way out so that is ~ 9:36 min per mile pace and it took us 18:22 to come back which was is 8:50 min/mile pace. Total run time was 38:20 min. We almost made the goal but I think we just started out a little bit fast as I had planned on 10min/mile warm up pace, but it's great that we are getting close to running our race pace in training one day per week. That means your race pace will continue to get faster. Good job! See you on Saturday.

Running Friend

MRI Done

Ok I have officially been through the MRI. I drove to the hospital where I submitted my paper work and went through registration. I got some new young kid that was going through training. Everything he did was point blank straight up off a check list and I could tell he was nervous. The guy training him was pleasant enough and helped the other guy through it.

Here is where I got this strange feeling. As they put the plastic check in name bracelet on my wrist it hit me I was being checked into the hospital. This was the first time I can ever remember having had a name bracelet on. I might have as a baby with tonsils out. I have never had surgery. I have never been sick. I have never had to do this for myself and it felt a little strange there all by myself when this was happening. I thought to myself I am getting old. I am getting my first taste of what old people go through with in and out of doctor’s offices and hospitals. I did not want anyone to come with me and sent my wife off to our son’s lacrosse game and I was fine it just felt weird is all.



He escorted me to a volunteer lady that led me to another check in lady for the x-ray area where I again checked in. As I checked and every time I was handed off to another person I was asked my name and birth date. I looked at my wrist band and it had all the information and I saw my age of 42 M. I took notice that saying I am 42 does not sound old but when you see it on a hospital name band in black and white again an eerie feeling came over me.

After a short wait again I was now led by a guy to a nurse’s area. Here a nurse attempted to put an IV in my right arm to no avail it failed. They always have a hard time with my veins. Another lady came over and then tried to put the IV in my left wrist. She was successful. I have now had my first successful IV in my body. Here they also asked me about allergies and I said Penicillin to which I gained yet another RED wrist band. CRAP I am racking up the first’s and feeling older by the moment.

They then led me to the room with the big circle MRI machine. Here they had me get in my sweat pants I brought take off watch and all other items. They laid me on a table and then strapped me in. The table lifted into the air and slid me into the circle. I had to lay there with my arms over my head for the next 45 minutes. They provided music and I laid there listening to this machine rumble, country music, the guy occasionally putting something in my IV to give me color for the scan.

When I was done I was allowed to change again. They removed the IV, cut off the name bands and said have a great day. Now we wait 24-48 hours for them to read the scan and send to my doctor. We wait again to find out nothing is wrong with me except do not run, play basketball, softball, or anything else that will aggravate myself. That is still my prediction and I have a bad attitude towards it I know. I am struggling with it all right now.

WOW

So I went and played basketball this morning. I started to play and the darn pain just sucked but I continued on and though it never went away it became tolerable. We played just short of an hour. When we were done and saying goodbye I was walking out and one of the guys yelled BUGGY. I stopped and turned around.

He walked up and asked if he could pray for me. I was ummm sure for what? He said we know your going for a MRI today and would like to pray for you. We talked a bit and then 4 sweaty guys all circled me, layed a hand on me and the guy layed down an awesome prayer. I have done this for people but it was the first time anyone ever prayed for me like that. I left a bit in a state of awe and inspired.

Can't Sleep

Yesterday I must have not looked good. My boss even told me so and said if I didn’t feel well to go home any time. If I felt I needed to continue to work I she even said go home get in jammies and then work what you need from bed if I would feel better. Hmmm I didn’t think I looked that bad????

Yesterday my mom called. They need my help pouring concrete at my sister’s house. They need me available around 2:30 this afternoon. I told her I would see about getting off work and being there to help. Then I remembered my appointment. I had to tell her I couldn’t and why and she was like WHAT? You didn’t tell me you were going to do that. Then she wanted to know about the pain etc. I kind of wish I had just said I would be there and cancelled the appointment.

Last night I ended up going to bed around 10:30 then didn’t go to sleep till around midnight. When I did finally go to sleep it was restless and sucked. At 4am I decided to cut my losses and got up and did some work. Why can’t I sleep you might ask. Well a whole gob of issues from paying for the test, doing the test, some of it is actually pain last night making me uncomfortable, renters not making their payment, and then some other issues about needing to do some research on other issues so I am up to date on them.

Well this should make for an interesting day. I am going to go play basketball now at 5:30am. Then work my day, and at 4 go to my MRI. I did last night late get an email from my boss saying “Thinking of you and your MRI. Take all the time you need and if I need anything give her a call.” I thought that was very nice it helps to know I can do what I need for time.

I know I won't find anything out today as they will just run the test and then the doctor will have to look it over later. BUT here is my prediction. I am spending $3000 for peace of mind that I am not really sick. The Doctor will tell me no more running or basketball. I will get fat, lazy and end up dying like my uncles within the next 10 years of a heart atttack because I will not be allowed to exercise.

MRI Scheduled

What is with Bunny and Early's site done?

Today was Cathy’s Funeral. It was a rough one again watching a family say good bye to their mother and wife. She was only 46. When her dad got up and spoke about his daughter and her passing the place erupted in tears. It was hard to sit through.

Sunday night I was sitting watching TV and my wife asked how I was feeling. About then she saw me hold my stomach. She said I guess that is my answer she texted me this morning that my MRI is scheduled for Thursday at 4. So Gator you don’t need to send Cubed or Angel over to hurt me more.

Friends are what it is about.

I have been fighting the stomach pain most of the day. I had a bit of relief after I took some Aleve this morning but it has been a slight dull nagging pain all day. When it leaves I am like no MRI then I get it back and I am thinking I need to get it with all the other stories I am hearing now. I will try to explain.

There was David who went to the doctor for a back ache and they found his cancer. Cathy just passed away due to a fight with cancer. While at Cathy’s viewing tonight we were talking about another friend of Cathy’s that just went in for a sore side in November and just passed away last month on them from a cancer. All these people are not much older than I am and I am fighting this stomach pain. Honestly I really do think it is nothing and I don’t want to do it to find out it is just going to have to run its course with less running. BUT on a side note, I have not admitted this yet but there is a bit of worry what if they find something in me? :(

At Cathy’s viewing we walked in and saw many other friends. Some I have not seen in a while just due to busy lives. Something is wrong with that statement. We hugged and talked for a bit. I visited with Jerry (Cathy’s husband) a bit and he is holding up well so far. I think I need to put a marker in my mind to after all the family is gone take him out for a beer or get him to start coming and playing some basketball with me. He will need to talk and release I am sure in time.

We went in to see Cathy for the last time and again this cancer and people dying around me is just plain sucking. She looked stiff and almost plastic about the same as David did. Viewings are tough to see the person lying there not really looking like themselves and to think that person will never again hold a loved one’s hand, walk with the sun on their face, or smile at a friend. They are only a memory to the people that knew the person.

Right now at 7pm my watch alarm goes off. I consciously hit the button to stop it ringing every day. When it goes off I take just a second and reflect on the last 24 hours of my life. Standing at 2 different friends viewings in the last month makes it ever more important that I take that moment each day to reflect not only on what I did for the day but who’s life did I touch for the day. It is important to treat people in your life with respect, honesty, compassion, and love for tomorrow you or they could not be here.

Pains

I have now not run for 3 weeks. Saturday I got up and went and did the spinning class again. This last week I played Basketball for an hour on Sunday night and an hour on Tuesday morning, did spinning for a hour on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I did get on a treadmill yesterday morning and as soon as I turned up the pace from a walk I went into pain. In the end I have now made it 3 weeks and my weight has remained constant still. I am trying to weather out and adapt so I don’t start ballooning out into some fat, obnoxious, nerd again.

Then I worked for about 6 hours. I removed 11 databases off of a server, uninstalled the 10G version of Oracle, installed Oracle 11G and then replaced all 11 databases. When said like that it seems like an small easy task but considering all the scripts and prep work to be ready to do that and time it takes for the data and scripts to run it took some time. For the most part I was alone at work the whole day with a only 3 other people stopping in for various reasons at work and my mom who brought me a juice. SO I cranked the music and let the machines chirp away.
I went and say the movie Leatherheads that evening. It was a pretty good movie. Very light hearted with some humor. My daughter enjoyed it.

I have been on Aleve now for a couple weeks and decided to wean myself of that since I am not running and see how things go. I quit taking the Aleve on Thursday night. This morning as I write this even I am in pain. I was lying in bed this morning trying to sleep in a bit and finally gave up as I could not lay anywhere comfortable anymore. So did all the cycling and basketball aggravate me more or was the Aleve masking it. When I tried the treadmill the pain was quick to return. I would have to say that at this point now I am getting a bit more concerned. You would think after 2 weeks of Aleve to help the inflammation, no running and only a small bit of exercise balance the pain would be lessening. I am again frustrated with this. Can I scream ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHH $#@#%#@ PAIN.

There now to put it all in perspective today we will be attending a viewing of our friend Cathy. Tomorrow is her funeral and I will be out of town for work so I need to go to this. It will suck.

SO it is only 7:45am on Sunday and already not very excited about the day.

Happy Birthday

On Wednesday I received a text from my son. It simply said Cathy Died last night. This is another friend of our family. I have coached basketball with her husband and they live in the same neighborhood as I do.

She finally lost her battle to breast cancer this last week. This makes the second friend to lose to cancer now within a month’s time. In this case the friendship is a bit more distant then it was for David but it is still hard. It sucks to think of yet another friend has passed due to Cancer.

Please add another prayer to your list for her family as they deal with the loss of their mom, wife, daughter, and friend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my son. He is 17 today.

Pinch taken care of.

To save myself from being bruised and embarrased I am posting ot state that Cubed came by and offered to pinch me. I accepted the offer but declined the actual act. sorry gator the hug was enough to make me happy and the pinch I will/have accepted from another party and has been fulfilled.

Thanks for staying in there on the cause and showing your ability to hang tough. We can now let Cubed off on that part of the deal. :)

Daughter is loving Softball YAY

Today the softball games again started at 8am. The girls played a solid game and won moving them to the next game to be played at 11am. I suspected that they would again play the team that we lost to on Saturday 15-0. BUT for some unknown reason that team lost and we played a different team that we had beat before. Well I think the girls got something in their mind and the defense and bats were not there. We ended up losing that game and they took 3rd in the tournament. I guess that is still a great place to end.

I again know it is not all about the winning and competition with my daughter. The coach called her aside for a talk and told her how well she was doing. My daughter came back and told me that it seems the coach needs her and is very pleased with her play. Basically said she will never be sitting the bench as she is the best player on the team. She wants to prove it too and when we got home today I ended up playing catch and throwing grounders etc for her to practice more.

I went and played basketball tonight also. Had a great time getting out and running but now I am feeling it in my stomach etc again. This just sucks. I did go out and look at road bikes a bit this afternoon also. Starting to think should I pay for the MRI or buy a road bike? 

Run Fatboy Retired

Friday I again attended spinning class. I was leaving the club and the sun was coming up and I was done working out and heading to work for the day. I looked around and thought to myself all is good.

I was for the first time in a long time finishing a workout and was not in pain. I have not had any real pain now for a few days. Then again it has now been almost 2 weeks since I have last run. I am beginning to get lazy and losing the mental drive to run. I am beginning to like spinning class more and more though. I am a bit afraid I will be done running as in the past I quit for months and years at a time. I am a bit sad at the prospect.

Today spent the day with my daughter at the ball field. She is in a softball tournament this weekend again. She again played very well and I love watching my girl out in the field. She is growing into such a beautiful young woman, but still at the age you can see the fun and excitement in her as a little girl. While at the Ball Park I needed to get something out of the car. I took off at a jog and instantly my stomach went into pain. That kind of bummed me out a bit.

Tonight I joined 15 other runners to see the movie Run Fatboy Run. It was a funny movie and led me to a bit of motivation. I thought maybe I need to buy that movie when it comes out in DVD and use it for motivation later when I get well.

After the movie we all went to one of the gals house to have Mexican food and to hang out and talk. I announced my running retirement and got a bunch of slack. Everything to no you are not you have tried to retire for years to are you serious. I am partially serious. In the end it was a great night with good friends.

Some of them are into biking so a concept came up I might need to think through. Spend the money on the MRI to find out what I already know. OR spend the money on a road bike and take up cycling for a while to keep my exercise some and see if I can run again in a couple years. In any case I am a bit depressed about this pain and I do want to go run and not running and hanging with my friends is getting to me.

I been HIT

I had a good talk with a friend today remembering some great times with David. Though it was saddening in my mind it really was a great talk to do a bit of remembering.
Went to a show tonight again and saw Blast. It was a great show and the music was awesome. My daughter loved it. She and I and the guy next to here were all playing air drums and making blruuurrrr sounds with our tongues. It was a fun night.

I did spinning this morning and all was good for pain. I am still having my deep sharp chest pain though. Wife got on me to call the doctor today and I did but missed each other with messages. Tonight that damn pain is again radiating through my back now also. I am heading to bed and see if I can dull it out in the am with some basketball. I am almost to the point of a couple of things happening. 1 the doctor visit and MRI or ignore it all and quit saying anything to anyone and live with the pain and see where it goes. I really think the stomach pain is the Osteoitis thing and just not running will fix it. The chest pain has come and gone before and I think it is more a worry thing my body does. So just relax and let it all go right?

Gator Cubed hugged me one day and then today he SLUGGED me. Added more pain to my left arm AND I have Angel to verify it she was there when he hit me.

Playing with my Girl

I was lazy and no workout today. Tonight I took my daughter to softball practice. Tonight on the way there she was ready and anxious to go. She told me on the way to practice that she loves going to practice and she was bummed when the games were canceled on Sunday. This is all new to us. She used to fight us to go to practice. I think that tells me something. The move to this other team and off the “A” was a good move to get her to love it for the game and not the pressure.

Tonight at practice I heard the coach tell her she is her best infielder and she needs to keep it up and help the others. Again I am full of pride that she is doing so well. They were practicing some fielding and needed some runners. So parents usually will do that and I was a runner. Since I have coached I knew things to pull on the girls to make them have to think.

My daughter was at 3rd base and I took off from 2nd base towards her. The girls got her the ball and I stopped and started back to 2nd. She threw the ball and it beat me and I turned back to 3rd. YES they had me in a pickle. I thought to myself the girls will make about 2 maybe 3 throws and I am safe on a base. NOPE! They made all the throws but then my daughter got the ball and took off after me. I thought she was going to catch me but she was smart she threw the ball and they tagged me out. It was a perfect pickle play and they executed it awesome.

On the way home I asked her about it and she was smiling and of course happy to get dad out. I said so what have I been doing for the last 2 hours? She said playing. I said yep I been playing softball, a game, with my daughter for 2 hours and it was fun. She smiled and that is when you know as a dad this is what it is all about, making memories with your kids.

The running though has caused my stomach though to go into pain. The pain is even pushing down my right leg a bit. I don’t know if you remember back a while ago in my writings I was having chest pains. Well they have come back again also. So tonight is not going to well with the lower stomach and chest pains. I am going to take an Aleve in a bit and go to bed. Hope it is all gone by tomorrow morning I am planning on spinning class.