My therapist said today that if she could never touch her laptop again she’d be thrilled and honestly same
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My therapist said today that if she could never touch her laptop again she’d be thrilled and honestly same
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Yeah, I really wish I had thought of this ahead of time. I’m only off until Monday next week and the next surgery involves my arms, so I feel like I lost my window!
The most fascinating thing recovering from surgery has done to (for?) me is reroute every part of my brain that says “we should do something productive!” towards physically healing my body.
I am equally bored and unmotivated.
My therapist is going to have a great day on Thursday.
My therapist would say I’m anything but!
Legs stay elevated if im not walking! Doctor’s orders :)
This stage of recovering from surgery is so hard. I can’t last longer than 10-15 minutes on my feet, I can’t stand up straight so my lower back ends up hurting, and I can’t sit up because of the surgery. So I’m just stuck, dependent on others, without enough energy to do anything interesting.
Happy to talk to your partner if she has any questions!
Just the regular “shift my legs on and off the elevation pillow for 2 hours” disruption now 😅 much better!
Fingers crossed this is it!
I have 3 procedures this year to treat a chronic condition I have called lipedema - this is number 2 of 3! Last one is next month.
Mirror selfie of Kelly with bandages up to her knees
3 days post op today. Moving around a little better and didn’t need to take a painkiller in the middle of the night so that’s a win!
The weather’s been great so I’ve been taking advantage of short outdoor walks. I’m off work for another week which I’m grateful for because sitting is a pain.
One more to go 😭
Photo of post-surgery legs in compression and wraps
Hello from the other side of surgery. 8.7L of diseased tissue removed from my upper legs.
Pain is present but I’m dealing with it. Mostly just living on this air mattress until I feel comfortable enough getting in and out of bed.
Surgery #2 tomorrow! Wish me luck and send me Uber Eats/Doordash gift cards 💅
I wrote about the time spent spiraling over small mistakes (and how it relates to burnout)
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Conducting 12 performance reviews in 3 days this week. Wish me luck 🙏
It’s a plastic surgeon who specializes in lipedema, but it’s not actually a cosmetic procedure. A lot of people don’t end up with perfectly sculpted legs/arms/whatever, and they’re super upfront about this.
Mirror selfie of Kelly wearing compression garments, a white knit top, and a denim jacket with rolled up sleeves
10 days until lipedema surgery #2 of 3. Back at it again.
Not excited for the recovery process, but I am excited to feel less top-heavy. Now that the swelling has gone down more in my lower legs and knees, my thighs feel out of alignment.
Photo from last week really shows (to me) the unevenness.
I’m looking forward to having a similar feeling! less than 2 weeks to go for upper legs
"We were choosing between fast yeses that scale your pain and a slower yes that scales your impact. Saying no to good ideas was how we chose the system over the request."
An excellent read from @kvlly.com. I'm already exploring ideas for an article that builds on some of the opportunities here...
Understood. Looks like you use the same gate I do!
Simple solution: close the popup and scroll past the ad 😉 Nothing wrong with financially supporting my writing!
Thank you for sharing!
Saying no to a bad idea isn't the hard part. Saying no to a good idea is, especially when you don't want to kill someone's motivation.
I wrote about this for The Modern Leader today: www.modernleader.is/p/saying-no-...
Thank you so much!
Happily!
Flying from ATL (near record cold) to LAX (near-record high) tomorrow and packing for this trip is very confusing
Good to know! Thank you!
Anyway, I have unfortunately found another thing to monetize