Well, At Least I Can Swim

It is a little over a week until I go back in for surgery. My knee has calmed down quite a bit now that I'm not doing things that make it unhappy. That means I have had to cut out the leg press and forgo any aggressive stretching until the scar tissue is taken out. Running in any form is out, this includes the elliptical. I can still cycle indoors but the only thing that I seem to be able to do without any restrictions is swimming.



So I have been swimming and swimming and swimming a lot. This is the most that I've done since before my first surgery. I know that I am going to have to take a couple weeks off from swimming after the proceducre. I'm trying to get as much training in now so that maybe I'll bounce back faster once I can get in the pool.



We had a couple of our cats, Strider and Beans, farmed out to be watched by another family while inspections were being done in our apartment complex. It got delayed so they ended up being gone for 5 days. Beans had a great time playing with his friend, Oliver. Oliver was the cat that we had watched a couple weeks ago. However, our other cat, Strider, refused to eat during that time. He holed up in a room by himself for days at the house. The person who was watching them is my husband's coworker. He started calling him Ghandi. The day before we went to pick him up from the house, Strider disappeared. They searched their house. We searched their house. No Strider. We started calling him Houdini. Yesterday he was finally found by Oliver, holed up near the ductwork in the ceiling of the basement. Poor little guy. He was so thin and sad when we finally got there to get him. Now that he is home, he's eating well although he's still a little skittish. I guess we'll be having in-home house sitters from now on.