Originally Published 6/5/13
What a nice day its been, blue skies and sunshine all day. Like most people faced with this kind of weather, our household decided to do some gardening.
I managed to do a bit, nothing heavy, de-weeding the lawn, bit of raking leaves, nothing much. Honestly, I sit here now typing this with my neck and shoulders aching like Christ knows what. If feel like I've done a major upper body session at the gym of something. Its not an unpleasant feeling, I do in fact feel a bit like I have been the gym. I do wonder how much I will pay for today's little spurt of activity in the morning, I guess I will just have to wait and see.
Its been a nice day though, it was nice to do the garden with my wife and kids. The thing I noticed the most was my upper chest and shoulders, they ached and hurt like I they are injured. Weird given that the operation was to my neck and jaw mostly, not to the shoulders at all. In fact I expect my neck to be tight and hurt, but not my shoulders. There is no reason I can see for the weakness in my shoulders and upper chest, but then I have noticed that the shape of my neck has changed in the operation, there is not the same shape from neck to shoulder that there was before.
There are times when I think I am constantly finding things that have changed, what with my voice, my laugh, the tiredness. Then again, other things have changed for the better. I have spoken before about how my feelings for my wife have strengthened through this, as have my feelings towards my family. This cancer lark certainly concentrates the mind on the more important things in life, of course I'd rather have concentrated without the cancer but I'll take what I can :-)
