Not that – get your mind out of the gutter people!

This week has given me plenty of time to think about my life and more importantly the person I am when pressed. It has been good, unwelcome, but a good experience none the less as I have discovered there is way too much left for me to accomplish this side of the veil to ever be on bed rest again.

Lessons learned

1) Listen to your body. It loves you, it wants you to be healthy, it will kick your but if you don’t.

2) Drink more water. You live in America for heavens sake and peeing feels good.

3) Exercising and strengthening your core, no matter how boring, is much more interesting than lying down against your will wondering if you will ever walk again.

4) Facebook, although captivating, is a terrible substitute for not being able to hold your kid.

5) Second chances are a gift and one that should always be opened.

6) Appreciate everything, even expensive bumpy ambulance rides you have no way to afford, you got to live to write about it.

7) Live in the moment, you may discover you have the ability to make people laugh even when you feel like crying.

And finally:

Remember you have the most amazing wife, children, friends and family around you and your life’s work is to never give them reason to doubt it.