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“Don’t quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion” – Muhammad Ali

Great news! I was discharged from the hospital on January 28th, 2015. My half-birthday, my re-birthday. After 2.75 years of hard work and long waits, I am free to get back to my life again. I took the end of last week, through the Super Bowl (Pats win!), as a last bit of vacation and hit the ground running yesterday.

I am getting shit DONE. I’ve done a ton of follow-ups, emails, organizing, and the like. I am back at the gym, on a new whole-body workout plan. I went to get my ears pierced again only to discover my holes had not closed up after all that time and just had to buy new hoops with captive balls to get back my “old look.”

The workout plan I’m on is a modified whole-body, six day split. I’m doing bench and squats on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, with cleans and cardio on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Sunday is a rest day. I will do this split through the month of Feburary, just to get the bod back in shape and used to working again, then I’ll probably shift to my usual five day split, with added cardio, to build a better foundation for cycling this summer.

I’ve had several interviews in the past week, and reached out via LinkedIn to find a good local IT recruiter. Within 12 hours I had a recommendation that I’ll be following up with later today, so things are starting to pop on the job front too. My time at Payback appears to be nearing its end, as I haven’t heard anything from them in over a month and it seems the contract won’t be renewed. My other client, CommunityEchos, has been patiently waiting for me, and I expect to wrap up that contract this week.

I have also reconnected with the author about writing my story. That’s the reason I haven’t put a lot of detail about my adventures here so far, we are working on what will be at least a series of articles that talk in depth about every aspect of what I’ve been going through these past years.

I’ve said goodbye to my friends at the hospital. There were congratulations all around, and even a couple calls to wish me the best and tell me what an inspiration I was. Those were great, completely melted me, and made me feel like no matter what else happened, I have had a positive impact on people’s lives. It’s a great feeling.

Alright, another busy day ahead, I’m off! More soon…

From Jane McGonigal:

“Fiero is what we feel after we triumph over adversity. You know it when you feel it – and when you see it. That’s because we almost all express fiero in exactly the same way: we throw our arms over our head and yell.”

– Reality is Broken

I’m about halfway through the book and it’s a great read. I highly recommend picking it up!