99% normal

I am feeling GOOD!  And just about as normal as I could hope to be feeling, less than 2 months after freakin' brain surgery.  I've started working out (although I use that term loosely).  I've been able to go on 45-minute speed walks near my apartment painlessly.  Well, except for the I'm-sooo-out-of-shape pain.  I haven't kicked it up any notches higher than that yet.  I'm washing my hair normally, walking at my normal fast pace, and reading more.

The only things that seem to be keeping me 1% away from total normality are my eyes a little and my sense of direction/symmetry.  I'm still not able to read on the bus without my eyes being pretty unhappy with me.  I volunteered at the Warrior Dash with Lisa this weekend, and when we were on beer garden bracelet watch (to make sure everyone was 21 and over), my eyes became quite strained.  The issue with my sense of direction/symmetry (as I call it) is still around too.  Just today, I was on the 3rd floor after lunch, wanting to go to my desk on the 7th.  I hit the down elevator button and waited, letting an elevator going up totally pass me.  It wasn't until about 20 seconds later that I realized the 7th floor is ABOVE the 3rd floor.  Sometimes I feel like a kindergartener.  A really tall kindergartener.

I also think I spent too much time on my rooftop deck during my tumor vacation, as I have a pretty ridiculous farmer's tan going on.  It'll look especially hot if I don't get it fixed before Carl and Maria's wedding in early October.  But I'm sure my strapless black groom's attendant dress will look nice with a farmer's tan, no?!  (Does this count as a surgery side effect?)

Seriously though, I'm feeling pretty back to normal.  Now if only I can ditch my hats...

And, unrelated, my friend from college Krystal (who had surgery to remove part of her brain tumor a couple months before me, at the same hospital with the same neurosurgeons) had a seizure this weekend.  Her tumor was discovered after she had a couple pretty major seizures this spring, so it must be quite scary to have it happen again (although luckily it was minor).  I'm only mentioning this so that you can keep her in your thoughts as she works through her tumor challenges too.