Post-surgery post: Three days later

I was given this device to take home and use regularly as part of my recovery. SPIRO-BALL! Despite appearances, you don’t blow into the mouthpiece, you suck air out of it. This causes the yellow ball to rise. My objective is to get the ball to the middle, where the happy face is: On my first day home, I could do this, but only for a moment. Today, my third day home, I can now do it for multiple seconds, getting it up to the 2000 ml level. That may not seem like much, but frankly, I’ll take it! The biggest realization for me coming out of the surgery is that while recovery may be relatively swift in overall terms, it will feel like ages to me. Before the surgery, I thought I’d be back to running possibly within a week (which genuinely gets a lol out of me now). The reality? I have stitches on my left side in three places that can’t come out for 10–12 days, so running, even if I had the energy, would be a dumb idea. And I don’t have the energy. Basically, this has hit me a lot harder…