Post Op Day 1, home

iPad watching Kevin Hart comedy
Searched Track & Field and it’s not until tomorrow. Then found Kevin Hart’s 2022 Comedy special.
33-second video: Couch potato training commences.

Priorities are a mindset.

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Your priorities are by design or by default.

If they are by design, you are nodding your head in agreement right now.

If your priorities are by default, you’re thinking, “huh?”

PS. From today’s two videos you can see in real time i’m putting world-class couch-potato ahead of world-class laughter. Cancelled today’s lunch meeting with former Disney Institute colleagues. i cannot trust myself, in their presence, to behave myself.

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Second Eye Surgery, home

Handwritten note from two small children
Hand-made and hand-delivered around dinner time tonight.
Four gourmet cookies
Fancy, gourmet cookies make you smile even if you don’t like cookies. We happen to like cookies. And smiling.

Sleep is a superpower.

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Believe

iPhone trade in value chart
Wondered about my backup phone trade-in value, maybe 7:00 AM today.
healthcare email
Easy to complete the second time. After three weeks from the initial completion, nothing has changed.
hotel reservation cancellation screenshot
Started cancelling everything for 2023.
Garmin GPS plan change screen
Spent the afternoon on small ticket items, and bigger ticket items…
airline flight cancellation credit
Cancelled for a future credit, the one-way ticket. Seems like only five years ago that fee would be roundtrip fare.

Always remember, a long day is a blessing.

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A long day.

Emotionally draining day.

Insanely grateful day.

Surrounded by talented local and national experts to help with planning, logistics, changes, etc.

Could have used a six-mile walk but getting zero miles today is still ok, all things considered.

Blessed to be exhausted.

Bonus was watching the final Season three Ted Lasso episode.

Everything about today makes me feel like the luckiest person alive.

Makes one wonder if every day can feel like this.

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Giddy (and) UP

Woman on touring bicycle
Puget Sound. Honeymoon. We’ve been filling our “Adventure Book” even before we got married.

Hoping for the best is an awesome mindset.

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Giddy about returning to Glacier in as little as a week.

UP is our favorite Pixar movie.

Adventure is out there.

We know it.

We love doing it.

Grateful for hoping for the best because it led me to hold off on canceling every reservation.

Thank goodness.

Hoping Friday’s eye exam is the green light to (a return to our Summer 2023) Adventure.

Our packed and organized rental van is waiting for our arrival.

Note: We’ve been paying for the van even though no one is driving it.

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Eye surgery update, home

29-second video: #truth #humbled #insanelygrateful

Almost sundown.

Came outside to turn off a watering hose.

Took my glasses off and covered my right eye. By the way, probably doing this 20-40 times a day.

In this late-day moment, vision (still fuzzy) is the best it’s been since surgery.

Dare i say it’s much better than 12 hours ago?

In 36 hours i see Dr. Kumar for the “three-week” post op exam.

Can’t wait for him to see the progress with his instruments.

Feeling insanely blessed and grateful.

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