So I want to talk more about the post surgery brain fog. I talked to my friend who is a surgeon about it, and he said that yes it should wear off in a year, and that they thing it may even be mico strokes (very scary).

I found an entry on it in Wikipedia, Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction. And I for sure have it.

Strangely it doesn’t seem to affect my ability to edit at all, as long as I take notes (as it seems to be more of a memory thing), I edit just as quickly. And that is a very good thing. In fact it seems to clear up while I have editing to concentrate on!

The worst is the end of the day. When I get home from work, and if I want to get anything personal and creative done, I don’t have the brain power. And overall my memory recall seems a bit slow. Even on the weekends trying to write or do art, or even play video games seems a mostly futile effort.

The other thing I have noticed lately is sweating.

I have always been a person who sweats my whole life (likely tied to the hypertrophic I would assume), but lately I have been noticing something interesting, if annoying. While I do sweat while exercising, not super excessively, but as soon as stop my body starts sweating incredibly for a little while, and really have to stop and cool down. This isn’t so bad when I am working out, as I can stop and sit in front of a fan to cool down quickly, but right now I am taking the subway for part of my trip to work, which means a walk and lots of stairs, and standing in a very hot subway for 10-15 minutes, and basically by the time I get to work I am drenched in sweat and it takes me a bit to cool down. So I have to bring an extra shirt and a towel to clean up as soon as I get to work. This is annoying, and I hope I not bothering the people I work with! Lots of deodorant is being used, and hopefully helps.

As for the soreness, I am still really sore, but it is getting better, or not bothering me as much. I still feel it, especially at the end of the day, but it is improving. And I think it helps that I have been doing some light Kettle bell exercises at least a few times a week (using a 10 pound Kettle bell) after my morning walk.

My back is still out, and I can see another trip to the chiropractor soon, though I wish I could get a full adjustment instead of using just the activator.

So my dream has come true for my surgery entries, and I have gotten a few e-mails from people having a septal myectomy soon, saying that my blog has helped them out, and wanted to update on my condition and also talk about some of the things they talked about.

First off I want to say I am doing great. I have so much more energy. I don’t get out of breath at all like I used to all. I still get out of breath, but not nearly as quick. I mean I can walk a 2.1 mile walk near my house, and only get tired because of a huge hill, that makes me stop to take my breath once. Still incredibly better than before my surgery. The thing is, I was in such bad shape before, so of course i still have some exercise issues now, but still I have SO MUCH MORE ENERGY! It is really amazing!

And that brings me to my next thing. I had someone write me who is having surgery soon, and is having so much trouble exercising, and the man says he has very similar build to me. Meaning being my height, and weight, with a very big belly, just like I have, as you have seen from all my photos. He asked if he though it was from the condition, and I have to say I absolutely think it is. And unfortunately it isn’t like the weight or belly will just melt off, because my body is in so much worse shape than it should be, even with my at least walking every day. I just never had the energy to get my body to be doing well. Heck, I was told I had asthma as a kid and even was given an inhaler, which never worked. Obviously that is because of my condition. And i think my obesity is a lot to do with the condition (though my love of food does not help). Still I hope to lose 50 pounds and hopefully I can now, and will continue to blog about it as I do or don’t lose weight.

And I want to the people who have contacted me, thank you!!!! I am so glad that my not only could my blog help you (because that was literally the whole point), but thank you for contacting me and asking questions. I love to be able to help people in any way I can, and I love to be able to add more to the this blog about and hopefully help more people in the future!

And her is another entry about how i am doing now, and a photo of the scar.

The scar is easily not as sore as it was. I have been using not only an anti-scar pen, but also wheat germ pills, which I have punctured with a needle and rubbed on it (advise from my homeopathic chiropractor) and honestly it feels much better. I don’t freak out having a shirt on it all day any more. It still gets sore, and especially itchy, but is incredibly better than it was. It still looks awful, but overall the skin itself is way better even than a few weeks ago.

Of course the muscle soreness is still there, and feels something like I have been lifting too many weights all the time. And I don’t think my job and the drive is helping much on that. I live in Los Angeles, but have had an hour drive in the morning and 2 hours home, and at least 10 hours of work sitting at a computer all day, almost every week day. And that make me so damn sore, and I think the drive is a big part of it, especially the stop and go traffic! It isn’t debilitating, but it hurts! And my back is still out and I haven’t been able to have a full chiropractic adjustment, except with an activator, which helps a little, but no completely (though the full neck adjustment is awesome).

I have also been taking some homeopathic medicine my chiropractor recommended, to help with muscle and bone healing. Also one that is pig heart material so my immune system attacks that instead my heart itself, since they never did any stitches inside my heart and let it heal itself, and bleed all it could.

Anyway, so overall I am so much better than I was before my surgery, but overall I am still sore as can be, and still recovering. And my brain is still very foggy. If I don’t do something when I think about it I tend to forget it, and that never used to happen. And I hope it improves. And I hope it improves and so does my creativity, so that I can start writing again, and I am sure it will. It just can’t happen faster.

Still I am so much improved physically, even if I am a bit under mentally.

At least my job, video editing, seems to be completely unaffected. I am still as fast as I ever was, and my technical school are as good as they every were. It is my personal life that is a bit effected.

Thanks anyone who is reading. I always thought I would be happy if I could help one person, and after a few have written me, I could not feel better.

Thank you!