Well, another day gone, and still belly swollen like a swollen thing on a bad swelly day...  But going well I think - although I did learn that holding in a sneeze is not a good option!  I knew this though, and have done a couple of pathetic sneezes since Monday, but this one was a sneaker - one of those sneezes that come from nowhere, fast.  As I was over my keyboard at the time, I didn't want to spray it, so half held the damn thing in.  Wrong option.  Instant red hot poker pain to the belly.  I have since gingerly pressed and poked, and can't feel the 'squidge' of the bonsai hernia that was there, so don't think anything bad happened, just a good reminder.

Progress though, at the gym - managed to battle through an arm workout with no trouble, not using your abs certainly makes your form very very correct.  So that was all good, I don't think this is going to hold me back too much at all (touch wood).  So that is one box ticked - I can still do an arm workout.  Which is handy, as it would always be nice to have arms that are bigger, certainly one body part that I feel is lagging.

I also did a fleet of one legged squats.  I was feeling guilty (and jealous), as Vanessa was cranking out a pretty mean leg workout, and I was fluffing around with my 'beach muscles'.  So one legged squats, sets of 20, ouch, but I loved them.  If you do these things, try doing them on tip toes too - that, like that old toothpaste add used to say (Mrs Marsh wasn't it), "does get in"!  So I think legs are going to be under control as I recover, back could be the problem, but we'll see in a day or two.

So there we are - 84 odd hours since the knife, and progress, with a good reminder not to go too hard to soon - from a sneeze.  It stopped me from stepping into the squat rack anyway - someone had left a couple of ten kilos plates on, would have been ideal to 'test' myself on, but really, would have been a waste of time, and all it would have achieved is possibly aggravating the bonsai!

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