the shirt!

You will get below 262. As a matter of fact, when the swelling starts going down, you may lose 5-10 pounds suddenly. You just keep doing what you know will help your body and let your body heal. There is a reason that they make you stay off work 6 weeks after a major surgery; it takes time to heal. You will get there.

I know the boredom during recovery well. Is there any new hobby you want to learn while you are laid up or an old one that you might like to revisit? A class you have wanted to take for fun? I don't know if it is a good time to take classes for work with the meds and pain and such but fun things would work.

Plan out a trip, even if you don't plan to go for a year or more you can find out all the places that you don't want to miss and where would be the best area to stay and all those other things that go into a trip and just don't lock anything in, yet.

Study the Bible with more maturity and see if you understand it in a way that you didn't earlier and find out if it answers your questions and uncertainties as opposed to what you were taught or understood as a young person with less experience.

Plan a get-together for all of us. I'll volunteer the lake house if we get the additions done this summer so that we can all have a place to sleep.

Look up some new recipes and start a new Pinterest account, even if you have one, to keep all the recipes that you want to try and a list of all the ones that you want to revisit.

Make out some menus that keep you on track for times that are tough and you just want easy. There has got to be something to keep you from being so bored.

Order some clay and find a sculpting class online to try.

Order some paint and try an online painting class or do a Bob Ross painting.

Make a quilted throw for your recliner.

Or Crochet or knit one. Crochet or knit some dish clothes out of cotton thread, they are the best.

There has got to be something that will stimulate you mentally or keep your hands busy.