Back to Work...Again

A quick note...due to my relative newness to using Blogger, I started a post on Saturday and then decided to re-use that post for my post of Thursday, April 28, 2011, which is the first time I've had a chance to get back to this blog. I didn't realize it would use the date that I started the draft of the post I had intended to do, rather than the date of publication. So when reading the following, keep in mind that I wrote it on the Thursday following the posted date. It doesn't make much sense otherwise. Sorry.

Tomorrow is the last day of the first week of work since I had my sternotomy. I admit that I was really nervous about it on Sunday, but it was actually easier than I thought.

Of course, since my job mainly consists of sitting and typing on a computer, it is not a true test of my capability to re-enter the mainstream of life. Especially since I am working from home.

However, it is all baby steps, I guess. My main concern based on my endurance last week was that I would need to take a nap in the morning, and another one in the afternoon. I guess it did start out like that. But on Tuesday, I only needed an afternoon nap, and yesterday I think I worked through until about 4:30 and then logged off.

For those who are curious, I do not work the whole day in my pajamas. I have actually used my lunch time each day to shower and grab a quick bite to eat. Lunch is much easier to do when your kitchen is only meters away from your workplace.

So for today at least, I am pretty satisfied. I've gone through all my e-mail at work - approximately 1,500 messages. I'm sure most of you who work at major corporations can appreciate this figure. I'm getting a feel for where my projects are, and where my prioroties are. In short, I feel like I'm back. It's not a job I always love, but it seems like normal life, and it makes me happy to be doing it again.

Of course, in the back of my mind is the ominous fact that during 2011, I've gone back to work like this three times before, and only lasted a week or two before I was bounced back to the hospital. But that note is pretty dim in my head right now - I'm still working from home for one thing, and that makes it a bit easier. Besides, I think that having done it three times before, I can handle that if it happens again.

Oh, and one more thing. I have to have hope that the hospital merry-go-round will stop, or at least slow for a while. I don't think the doctors would put me through the pain of the procedures they have unless they were also hopeful, so I'll just cling to that and be happy that I am again a part of a place where I can feel productive and, well, normal.