Yesterday I had my four month check up with my surgeon. He was so very encouraging and uplifting and he informed me that according to their records I have now lost 75lbs! Yikes!!! I try not to focus on the numbers but that is a BIG number! It's a good thing!
I felt up for an adventure and since Eric and I are on Spring break I decided to surprise him with a trip to the Dinosaurs in Cabazon about an hour away from our home, but the one who got a surprise was me!.
Today, without a doubt I had the second greatest Victory of my life!
You may recall these dinosaurs from movies like Pee Wee's Big Adventure and may have driven by them a time or two. They are HUGE!(See me down there?)But I didn't know you could go inside them until today.
Before my surgery, walking was very difficult, I would try to park as close as possible and cringe at the thought of climbing stairs (Thats where I got the name of my blog)But now I am doing much better with walking and am amazed at how much easier it is for me to get around.
When we reached the part of the Dinosaur park where we could climb into the T-Rex I made a little sigh...
This is how high the thing is from my point of view...
I thought to myself... Can I do this???
So I climbed one set of stairs, and then another...
Then... I reached a narrow and tall spiral staircase.
"No way" I thought and Eric was getting a little nervous at this point cause he doesn't like heights so it would have been easy to turn back he would have not cared at all, but I felt good, not winded so I decided to Go For It and Eric reluctantly joined me. Me encouraging him? this is new territory.
Victory!!!!!I did it!!!When I got to the top of that tiny staircase I got that same amazing feeling like when I delivered Eric. My body worked exactly like it should and COULD!!! I almost cried with joy
Actually, we both did it and it ROCKED!!!!!
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