A week of firsts

Today is the seven week anniversary of Anna's kidney adoption. Currently, everything is going well for both Anna and her kidney. Her tests continue to show good results and she is feeling better and better every day.

This week I added some "firsts" to my mono-kidney routine. I was able to take my first post-surgery bath - which really isn't a big deal since I'm a shower person and don't like baths too much. But I was feeling pretty icky earlier this week and when I'm getting sick, I want a long hot bath. So I checked in with my kidney coordinator to make sure everything was ok and after checking on my incision scars to ensure everything was as it should be - got to enjoy my first post-surgery soak. It was pretty nice too.

Also this week I ran for the first time. I was prepared to just take a nice stroll on the gym's treadmill as I have been doing for the past month but for some reason I just had the biggest desire to run on Wednesday. Not sure if I just had extra energy or if something inside of me was telling me it was time to turn up the speed but I wanted to run. So I did. Now by run, I mean I jogged. I'm sure some of my running friends would qualify my jog as a fast walk, but I know I had two feet off the ground at the same time so it was certainly not a walk. It felt good. I only ran two miles, but it was great to do it again and a day later I'm still feeling good so I think I'll try it again next week.

The other "first" for this week is that in about 4 hours or so, I'm going to see Anna again. I haven't seen her since I left her house the day after Thanksgiving. I'm excited to see her because you can only really check in with someone in person - talking on the phone is a limited experience. So I'm pretty excited!