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October 19, 2005
Separation Anxiety
When we adopted Roxy, the vet that gave her to us gave us a packet of information about owning a dog. It had all sorts of advice from how to house break a dog to how to teach them to sit, etc... There was a little piece in there about separation anxiety which I read diligently, figuring that our little pooch might suffer from this while O and I were away at work. Little did I know that O and I were the ones that would be suffering from separation anxiety!!! We get so sad every morning when we have to leave her. I might not want to have children just for the fact that I'll never be able to leave them!
Regardless, today I left work early just because I actually (for the first time in a LONG time) had nothing to do. Yippppeeeee! It was a beautiful fall day today too. The leaves are really starting to change so my drive home is very enjoyable. When I got home Roxy and O were playing in the yard and so we continued to play for a while and then we got ready to go for a run.
We went to our rails-to-trails trail. It was really pretty there with all the colorful leaves. The trail was covered in them - very crunchy! We took Roxy so we walked for about 5 minutes and then we all started to run. Roxy and O only ran for about 3 minutes. I think Roxy is going to be a very good runner but she still has stitches in from being spayed so we didn't want to go too crazy with the running just yet. O walked with her for the rest of the time while I ran 40 minutes total. This is my absolute favorite time of year so it's hard not to enjoy being outside. Period. My feet felt pretty good. I don't think the cortisone has worn off yet! :)
Oh - my PT appointment on Monday. It was okay. The physical therapist didn't really have anything too earth shattering to show me/tell me. Stretch, ice, massage, stretch, ice, massage, etc... She did show me some exercises I could do just to strengthen my feet some although she said my strength was pretty good so the exercises probably won't make that big of a difference. Humpf. Still just taking one day at a time...
In other news, running came to my rescue today. There is a certain doctor that occasionally covers in my units who is...how do you say it...perhaps "unapproachable" is the correct term. He's brilliant, but not easy to talk too, especially when you want to tell him what you think he is doing wrong. (ie: feeding a patient inappropriately). Well it came to my attention at the beginning of this cross country season that his son runs cross country for one of the best teams in our area. And he's one of their best runners. I knew it had to be his son because the last name is very distinct.
Anyway, I was trying to brainstorm a way to approach this doctor and breakthrough so that I would be able to approach him with my patient requests later on. (by the way - you would be VERY naive to think that what's best for a patient is what is always done in a hospital - unfortunately doctors and everyone else that takes care of patients are humans and sometimes egos get in the way) Regardless, I see said doctor on my floor today and bring up running and his son and boy did I hit the jackpot!! He was very interested in telling me about his son's season and wanted to know how I knew about this and wondered how I could be still be running when running seemed so hard on the body. I reported that I'm not really running right now because, indeed, running is very hard on the body. Good stuff man. The lines of communication have been opened! :)
Oh well. Roxy is being so cute right now I can hardly take it. She is sleeping all curled up in her little bed with her squeaky octopus, 2 bones and tennis ball all around her. AHHHHH - we should have gotten a dog sooner! :)
Posted by beth at October 19, 2005 7:25 PM
Comments
I love the anecdote about running breaking the ice. I like that running often brings together people who wouldn't otherwise socialize, and it rearranges the hierarchy...like a scrawny high school kid can get respect from the more jock-like types when he runs faster than they do. Or, we can say, "You may be President of the U.S., but we can kick your butt in a 5K." I'm glad running was there for you today :-)
Posted by: Alison at October 19, 2005 10:43 PM