August- A little late, a lot of boring

Ok, so I had my knee surgery and it was everything I expected and more. Sounds good, right? Not so much. The surgeon wasn't kidding when he said 4-6 before being mobile and minimum 6 months before I'm getting back to normal. August was down right dreadful. Lots of pain, very little sleep. Since I really couldn't do anything except take pain meds and lay down, I decided it was a good month for a reading challenge. The idea of reading a classic novel came to me courtesy of my dear friend Annie Whitlock. Browsing the $8 classic novel section at Barnes and Nobel just before my surgery, I decided on Treasure Island and Little Women.

The first two weeks of surgery consisted of this routine: Take medicine, pass out for an hour, sit in my CPM machine for 4 hours (see terrible picture below), repeat. I picked Treasure Island first expecting an action packed, Pirates of the Caribbean like adventure. What I got was a big disappointment. Here was the plot: A pirate died. A kid found his treasure map and got a group together to find it. They sailed on a ship and found the island. There was a mutiny. They found the treasure. They went home. Yep, that's all and it took me a good 3 weeks to get through it. I never started Little Women. August was by far the most boring new thing to date. So boring in fact, that it took me two months just to blog about it!