π¨β¨CONCUSSION RECOVERY UPDATE:
I'm now in week four of recovery. Overall, a lot better. Working memory is slowly getting better, but it's kind of like a foggy feeling of having to retrain myself to remember things. The best way I can describe it is like this, "What did I eat for breakfast? I don't know, that's too hard to remember. Wait, maybe I know... Let me try. OK, it was yogurt with fruit and nuts."
I'm doing cardio still. It was helping and also leaving me feeling fatigued, so I have only been able to do 3 times a week. My normal is exercising 4β5 times a week. Going to try to hit 4 days this week.
Over the last several days, I have transitioned onto a keto diet. There's enough studies out there that show that the ketogenic diet is really useful for recovering from a TBI/concussion. So far, carb cravings are the hardest thing about this diet. π€£ But that seems to be leveling off. Excuse to eat more fat? Yes, please.
I still need a lot of sleep. I have a lot of 10.5 hour nights, which isn't common for me. I tend to average 7.5 hours per night. Last night I got ~9.5 hours. I often wake up feeling sad. I think this is partly due to circumstance (sudden life change, routine disruption, can't engage in my favorite activities) and partly due to my neurons being stretched and injured. I'm grateful for my friends, they have gone above and beyond in terms of trying to keep me happy.
Today is my first day back to work. I consider it a positive sign that I have so far spent the morning trying to organize my browser tabs. Messy browser tabs is very bad!
Hopefully soon, I can get back to posting savage takedowns and controversial insights about bitcoin. Until then, thanks for your support!! π§‘
