Day 45: One miler

Just for y'all, a sweaty gym selfie! ;)

I have tried to run a handful of times since the Doc cleared me, however running has been painful. With every step I can feel the swelling bouncing in my cheeks and the pressure builds up my jaw and then into my cheekbones gradually building up the pain scale.  Earlier this week I pushed myself to do just 5 minutes on the treadmill. I had to really push myself to make it that long and I felt more sore afterwards.

So today I decided to up my run to 6 mins, but a good song came on and I was able to keep going for 1 mile (11-12 mins)! Compared to how easy it was to run multiple miles before surgery one (slow) mile is nothing, but compared to how agonizing running was earlier this week... I feel accomplished! I feel like it was another milestone forward, which really cheered me up after having a particularly a sore and high pain day yesterday (the new wires, chains, & rubber band placements beat me up!)