Welcome to a new week!  

It's Autumn Moon Festival!

It's been over a year since my dad's passing.. and with the recovery of a broken ankle and its complications along with it I needed to take a road trip.  It has been over a year since I took a road trip, so I went back to one of my favorite destinations that my dad once took us as a family - the wonderful natural wonders of this Earth!   It was great as I had expected!  

Such a place is somewhere I can visit repeatedly throughout my life.  There are things I have still yet to try in the cave, but at this turn I am unable to due to my ankle.  Next time I go back, I plan to fulfill these adventures.  It will be fantastic!! 
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Sunday is a relaxing day for me usually... a day to sit in the house, do some light chores and get ready for the week ahead.  Today, it's been a few calls between doctor and myself as the blood clot is having some changes that I am unsure of.  Fortunately, so far I can hold steady because preventing the an ER visit is first and foremost for me.   

So now.. onward with the things I need to do for today!  

The human body never ceases to amaze me..  as mentioned earlier, I am on the road to recovery from a broken ankle.  It's now a few days over five weeks and it's the weekend, long weekend.  Like any other weekend, weekends are the busiest time.  Running around and all the while keeping my ankle and my blood clot stable, I found out that while it's difficult and with discomfort, but I am very excited to be able to take several steps in the big heavy clonky boot without my crutches!!!  

While I am quite a bit of ways from taking off the crutches, and more ways to a  full recovery, but I am excited and have something to look forward to now.  YAY!!!  

I know I still need to take it easy and NOT push my recovery, but at this juncture I need to be active and do things.  For the next couple of days, comes more appointments.  A bit more active I will be.  This is a huge step from where I was -- full sedentary.  More importantly, I thank my family and dear friend or two who has been there for me during this time.  They have given me their time to help me in every way (i.e. going to get what I want to eat,  visiting me when I am down in my mood and encouraging me, taking me out to eat, and things needed to carry on daily) and constantly checking up on me.  Life is about the small details, and they complete the pretty big picture.  Blessed and grateful I am.

Lost my dad exactly a year ago.. I remember the way it happened and what the room smelled like to the point of when he fell and died in my arms.  Even when I tried CPR to resuscitate him to no avail.  Today, I miss him tremendously.  At the same token, I am coming to the end of fifth week of recovering from a broken ankle at the fibula. 

This injury occurred when I was out on a routine morning jog.  Sadly, there is no glory or great story to how this happened; rather the opposite.  All it took was I stepped on a walnut in it's natural raw form (with the green layer on the outside) and stepped wrong and then lost my balance and fell.  It didn't feel right, and I felt it right away.  I remained optimistic and told myself, 'it's okay, it's a bad sprain.  but maybe there's a chance I can walk/ hobble it off.' 

There was no luck there this time!  With each hobble i took, the pain grew more and more intense and I was about a mile away from home.  Given that it's 5 am and I don't carry my cell phone with me when I run, I sucked it up and hobbled all the way back home. 

This has been a long journey, although just 5 weeks so far, and am fully aware that I am not even half way through.. as there are hurt ligaments, damaged nerves, and even a blood clot.  The things I have learnt of patience and methods to cope with frustration and work related stress.. meditation, deep breaths.  Because at the end of the day, without health we are really just at a loss.  More importantly, the loss of healthy mobility, I am just barely understanding the pain my father endured. 

WIth that, I am grateful for the health I am given, the wisdom to keep up with it, and the love that he gave during his life time.