176: Adjusting to a New Normal - Coronavirus and Bicep Tear

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Natalie returns this week with a Fit For Your Mind Friday. In this solo episode, she tells you where she's been, and how she has had to adjust to a new norm. When she tore her bicep and how she had to quickly adjust her mindset to gratitude.

Now, we all have to adjust to a new norm with Coronavirus. Now we need to focus on gratitude.

So, what are the things you now have time to focus on? What are the gifts in all of this, that's happening.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fit for Your Mind Friday, where I share an insight from me to you.
0:11.3	Before we knew that the coronavirus and social distancing was a critical thing, I tore my bicep at the distal.
0:19.5	It's true.
0:19.9	I was on vacation in Costa Rica having fun. And in my
0:24.6	fun, I had an accident and I tore my bicep. And I didn't know I had done it at the time. I had a lot
0:30.0	of pain, but it didn't register that I had actually done something serious. It wasn't until I got
0:34.9	home, realized that my bicep was literally moving up into my shoulder
0:39.0	that I had torn it. An MRI revealed that it was a complete tear and I ended up in emergency
0:44.6	surgery. The interesting thing about a torn bicep is what I didn't know, which I know now,
0:51.2	is when you do something like that, you want to have it repaired right away. You want to have it repaired right away because you want to make sure that you can reattach the tendon. If you wait too long, then the tendon retracts back into your body, your body absorbs it, and it can't be reattached. So I went into surgery about two weeks ago, two weeks ago from the time of this recording. I went into the surgery, had emergency surgery, didn't know if they'd be able to repair it,
1:14.7	woke up with a repaired bicep, but also in an arm cast with my arm locked at a 90 degree
1:21.3	angle and was told that I'd be wearing this cast for about 10 weeks.
1:24.9	So I instantly learned that for 10 weeks I'd be in a cast, locked at a 90 degree
1:31.0	angle with a lot of pain, nerves removed, and that I would be rehabbing for six months into
1:36.2	up to a year. So my work, my world, my world was turned upside down before coronavirus was becoming a thing, before we knew the
1:47.2	impact, before it was being labeled a pandemic before all the social isolation was starting. So I was
1:53.9	wrapping my mind around no workouts, no driving, no typing, no writing, all the events I'd have
2:00.0	to be canceling, no speaking, no traveling,
2:02.1	no washing my own hair for God's sake. Couldn't cook for myself, no independence, nothing that I knew,
2:08.6	nothing that I was comfortable doing in my life was comfortable anymore. I share this now because
2:13.6	I cleared my calendar super fast. I literally had a four-hour window before learning surgery it was happening and having to check
2:20.3	myself into the hospital.
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