Kathryn Downing

Under the Knife

So life’s thrown me for another loop. I have surgery on Tuesday to remove an ovarian cyst. Unfortunately, it’s too large to do a minimally invasive surgery, so the procedure will be somewhat similar to a c-section. It may have been close to eleven years ago, but I remember exactly how painful that is so I’m definitely NOT looking forward to it.

Call me a nerd, but part of what bothers me the most is that all my hard work doing sit-ups, leg-lifts and cannonballs for Tae Kwon Do will be lost and I’ll have to build my abdominal muscles back up from scratch. I don’t think push-ups will work either. My surgeon said I can walk, but that’s it for exercise until my checkup 4–6 weeks after surgery. That means I also miss the next TKD test and I’ll have to repeat my current rank for another 10 weeks. Bummer. If I work hard, I should be back up to speed in no time and on my way to making black belt before I turn 33.

yikes.

i had no idea this was going on until the day you didn’t come into work and i asked what was up.

it’s good that you’re getting that thing outta there, though.

hope you recover nicley and get that crescent kick back soon!  (yeah, i was a second degree green belt once)

Sorry about that. I let Kristin, Bob and the new guys know since it would directly effect their workload, but I left it up to Bob to tell anyone else. It can be an awkward topic of conversation. Plus, it was kind of a quick decision by my doctor to go ahead with the surgery so I didn’t have much advance notice.