So the first rule of blogging is to never explain why you’re gone and never apologize for it. I’ll violate the first part a bit, since I don’t know how to pick up when the last thing I wrote was back in September.

Since my last post

• I had my face smashed by a line drive softball at 3rd base.
• I had a surgery to put plates in my face. (Maxillofacial surgery with some titanium plates.)
• I missed a bunch of FSU Football games.
• I bought a Bluray player and a Netflix account.
• My sinuses got infected multiple times.
• Thanksgiving came and went.
• I got sick with a head cold prior to surgery #2.
• I had a second surgery to remove 3 of the 4 plates in my face.
• The sinus infection ended up being really nasty and made me really sick to my stomach.
• Christmas and New Year’s came, I slowly started feeling better over that time.
• I’ve been off of antibiotics for nearly two weeks finally and I’m feeling much better.
• Overall I’ve lost nearly 40 pounds on the “Oops I broke my face diet”.
• Looking back, as bad as it was, it could have been a lot worse.

I’m very, very thankful to still be here for my family. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever really had anything major happen to me and it’s made me appreciate life a bit more than I did before. Maybe I literally needed a hard smack in the head to lighten up a bit and learn how to manage day to day stress? I’ve always been a little thick in the head. Ha! It’s just good to be on the mend and hopeful again.