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I've been home from the hospital for 45 days today I just realized, and I somehow managed to not blog once this whole time!  I feel terrible, and I hope I haven't worried anyone!  But I've been very busy recovering and living my life.  A novel thi Share

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I’ve been home from the hospital for 45 days today I just realized, and I somehow managed to not blog once this whole time!  I feel terrible, and I hope I haven’t worried anyone!  But I’ve been very busy recovering and living my life.  A novel thing!

I’ve made tremendous progress the last 45 days!  I’ve gone from having a feeding tube to clear liquids to solids to totally normal food.  I started out practically confined to bed, but now I’ve been going out and walking around with my walker again.  I even got my PICC line out last week!  Things are looking up!

And since I’ve been feeling so much better, I’ve been able to enjoy a social life again for the first time in a long time.  It can be really hard to make friends when you debilitated with a chronic illness.  I’ve had very little to no social life for years.  Partly due to pain and lack of energy but also due to lack of friends.  But when I was Baptized back in March into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, little did I know that I would suddenly find myself with as much social life as I had the energy to keep up with.  It’s been a great blessing!

In fact, I’m feeling so much better that I’m actually leaving to go out of town on Wednesday to ARGFest – a conference for the kind of online games I develop and play.  I will be going for 5 days, and I will be taking my caregiver with me to help me out.  I am super excited and thankful that I am well enough to go!

Now that’s what I call progress!

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