I'm doing pretty good this morning. Yesterday evening, I started on a library book, and I read over 100 pages for the first time in forever, this book a serious one too, not light reading.

This morning, MapMyRun had me on a killer interval training run this morning for 4.4 miles. Afterwards, I had to walk 2 miles home. I'm a bit tired from that. I need breakfast but don't have taste for anything. Maybe once I've had a bit more water. And I've got a lot of fruit, which contains water too. I love it when summer fruit is in season and affordable and actually tastes good

I have an appt. with my gastroenterologist this morning and will have to leave soon for that. At least the trauma surgeons did consult one of the top gastroenterologists in the Houston area. Though he is always warning me off NSAIDS for life, saying I should realize how rare ulcer surgery is in developed countries (most people have symptoms and either self-treat with things like Nexium or see a doctor, but I had no symptoms; I should realize I am lucky and that many perforated ulcers end in death or have complications such as sepsis. Cheery. So I guess I beat the odds there, but if I had known I would be having such pain in my future, I don't know how I could have faced it. I didn't even know people were capable of feeling that much physical pain.

I am hopeful this will be my last appt. with the gastro doc, or maybe he will stretch the next appointment to 6 months. I'm off the proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) medication now. I don't have symptoms and can eat most foods again although there are a few greasy foods like hamburgers and pizza I still cant face. But now I can have things like salsa and Tex-Mex food again. The only thing that seems to still hurt my scar is to carry a large case (around 32 bottles) of water from the car to the house since I have to carry that against my stomach.