Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things

planning and planning adjacent.

I am back after my little hiatus last week.

I hope everyone enjoyed the re-air of the Quintile 2 episode.

And yeah, I'm going to talk a little bit about how I'm doing right now. But I also have a fun episode with a follow-up from a great question that was asked in the Q&A for last month.

Every once in a while, I get a question where you guys give me a slew of answers

way better than the one that I came up with, and this is a great example of that. I have to say,

you guys are the most amazing community. I am doing pretty well. This is my third week after my

surgery and my new diagnosis, or tentative diagnosis, as the case may be.

And I'm recovering and I'm definitely feeling better every day. My energy is not what it previously was.

But every single day I feel like I am less thinking about pain. I am feeling more energy.

I'm needing fewer naps. so I can tell I'm on an

upward trajectory and am trying not to rush things as is kind of sometimes my tendency,

because I know that even when I do have good days, I can't just assume things are normal.

I mean, I know that things aren't normal because I have limitations on activities specifically, so that's going to be different no matter what for a while.

But I just need to make sure that I'm not like forcing myself to do too much too soon.

I wanted to share one of the emails I received. I got so many, you guys. Thank you so much.

I did want to respond to all of them, and I think I have now.

So my apologies if my replies are sometimes brief, but every single one of them uplifted me,

and I truly appreciate it. But I just want to share this one because it has some wisdom that

maybe will help others who might be in a similar situation. So this person writes, and I'll keep her anonymous.

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