Tuesday, March 15, 2011
I ended up taking one of my pain killers before we even left the restaurant last night because my back was in so much pain. I had gone to physical therapy on Friday, had a great work out on Saturday, a long car ride on Sunday, and then had to bend and twist for Dr. Kessler on Monday. I was sore and in need of rest and recovery time.
I finally woke up and got out of bed at 1100. Since the drug tends to stay in my body for well over 12 hours, I decided to clean my bathroom while I was still kind of numb. After showering and getting dressed, I checked my Gmail account and saw that I had an email from Stephanie the volunteer coordinator at the USO. Her email was asking for some last minute volunteers to assist with a SRP at the Panzer gym on Wednesday. I had no idea what a SRP was but I was available to help out so I told her to just send me the details and I'd be there.
She wrote me back telling me that a SRP was a "Soldier Readiness Program" and it was for a rapid deployment unit which is why it's such short notice. It sounded exciting and the other lady who volunteered was a lady who I had worked with before and we had a good time together so I was looking forward to working the event. I told Stephanie I would pick up the supplies today so we would be ready to go in the morning. I drove over to the USO center and loaded water, muffins, care packages, boxes of deployment kits, Capri Suns, and granola bars into my car. I was very grateful for the shopping cart that I was able to borrow and the fact that everything was fairly light if I only lifted one item at a time.
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After picking up everything from the USO, I headed directly to my doctor's appointment over on Patch to find out what was going on with me. I had felt like crap since I woke up Sunday morning and I was trying to fight it but it just wasn't working. My doctor told me I had an ear infection and prescribed me an antibiotic, nose spray, Mucinex, and more allergy meds. I wasn't completely satisfied with her diagnosis but I went ahead and filled my prescriptions. Before leaving Patch, I quickly stopped by the Commissary to do some grocery shopping for the week and then dropped it all off at home. Since we live on the fourth floor of our building, carrying the groceries upstairs is always a workout.
Once everything was put away I finally headed to the gym. I had been in my gym clothes all day and both the USO pick up and grocery shopping were great warm ups for my 45 minute elliptical workout where I burned 500 calories. I headed home to take a shower and start dinner before Matt got home from work. I was feeling so good about my workout and looking forward to helping deploying soldiers in the morning. I went to bed feeling so satisfied with my day, I wish I felt like this everyday...maybe minus the ear infection.
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