A Little While Longer
I’ve been asked how I’m doing since I came home from heart surgery. I haven’t been able to do any writing since I got home. Between how worn down surgery left me and the medications they have me on to make me better, it’s been very difficult to concentrate my thoughts. And I lost so much muscle mass in the past weeks that it’s been difficult even to hold my hands above the keyboard to type. On the plus side I’ve lost about 20 pounds.
I’m feeling much better than I was when I left the hospital, but I’ve a long way to go. I can walk to the mailbox to get the mail each day but that’s the longest trek I make and that leaves me out of breath. I’m on potassium, a diuretic and Coreg (Carvidilol) as well as a daily baby aspirin and pain killers at night to help me sleep. I’m hooked up to a defibrillator for the next couple of weeks at least in case my heart forgets to beat and I can’t drive and I can’t lift more than 5 pounds. It’s frustrating but I know that I’m getting better and will keep getting better and that in time I will be back to feeling my old self.
I miss posting here and I miss floating around the blogosphere to see what other folks are writing but I can’t do much about that now. I’m just not able to sit at the computer long enough or to focus my thoughts clearly enough (outside of the difficulty with typing) to get anything done. I hope you will all be patient with me. I just wanted to let you know how I’m doing and to tell you I miss you all and will do my best (as health and energy allow) to keep up. I am reading and have several thoughts for posts to develop when I can. I hope it will be soon.
Best,
Hrafnkell
Hrafnkell Haraldsson is the author of A Heathen’s Day, which since 2005 has addressed the life and thoughts of a modern day Heathen. He is also the founder of the Mos Maiorum Foundation (www.mosmaiorum.org) which is dedicated to the study and support of Paganism as ethnic religion and writes for PoliticusUSA (www.politicususa.com) 
Thanks for letting us know how you’re doing. We miss hearing from you, of course, and we’re pulling for you. Hang in there. Day by day, one step at a time, and you’ll be back at full speed. In the meantime, good to know that the improvement is noticeable. Also good to know that you’re reading and, no doubt, building up a head of steam. Looking forward to hearing from you again when you feel up to it.
Many blessings.
Thank you for the update! It is good to know that you are mending.
This morning, at 08:29 is the New Moon, the Flower/Planting Moon…
a good time to wish you well once again.
PS: Iceland is Fireland again… check it out on a video on Reutter’s…
Recovery is difficult and the limitations can be incredibly frustrating. You have a loyal following and many friends here far more interested in your good health than a need for a worthy blog read. When you are ready you will write. Until then continue your healing process and take this as a lesson in patience and find those small things to enjoy. Saving the world can wait another day!
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Rest. Heal. We will all still be here when you return.