I don't mean to brag, but to illustrate the intensity of this experience, the following is a partial list of things I have accomplished in the past 48 hours:
- I opened a Roth IRA.
- I started and more or less finished preparing my 2009 taxes.
- I played a 401-point game of Scrabble.
- I asked for and received a 35% raise from my longest-standing translation client.
- I took an amazing shower.
- I took a 30-minute walk all around the hospital, including going up and down many stairs (first time in 3 weeks.)
- I have eaten and kept down six full SCD-compliant meals.
- I made significant improvements to the design of my translation website and added a blog to it.
- I have maintained inbox zero for my personal and business email accounts.
- I completed the first assignment for my newly online class this semester.
- I fearlessly presented the Bahá'í Faith to several inquiring minds.
- I helped my mom edit an article written about her for a work newsletter.
On top of all of this, I have felt no physical discomfort at all, nothing seems to bother me in the least, I am socially fearless, and I have unusually amazingly accurate and quick typing and information retrieval skills.
All I can say is wow. Just wow.
