Tig Notaro Is Treading Water

I remember that night, I went to a diner with my friends, and we were just like, wow. That was a crazy show, you know, because I was up there talking about the death of my mother and having cancer and all of this stuff. Good Good evening. Hello. I have cancer. How are you? And then people were like, oh, the story went viral overnight. And I was like, what does that mean? What went viral? There's so much in that set that people can relate to. Most people have lost a relationship, and everyone's been affected by cancer, the loss of a parent. It was raw. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. I got Tig on today, Tig Notaro. So you've got that to look forward to because she's great, and, we really had a great time together. But before that, how's it going? I mean, you know, fall is here, which is nice, but now we're back to it being dark out so early, which, I don't know about you, always lands pretty heavy for me. For whatever reason, it just seems to drain my energy and kinda makes me wanna just hibernate and hide from the world. Just when the specter of the holiday season starts to rear up its head and lord over us, which always, for me, seems to kick up a little bit of anxiety, because I feel like it just it puts pressure on me, on all of us to power ourselves up at a time of year when, all I wanna do really is power down and, kind of seclude myself a little bit. But I do have some good news to share. I had my six month check-in, check up with my doc, my surgeon, and it's good news. It's a bit of a rebirth because he was able to review some brand new scans on my spine. And, my fusion, I'm happy to report, is setting in nicely. There's no slippage in the l five region. And so I got the all clear to get back to some light exercise and training. Nothing too crazy because I still can't do anything that compresses my spine, like, for example, lifting weights above my head or flip turns or, of course, running. But I can return to the pool for some light swimming and to my indoor Zwift trainer to resume some spinning, which is such a huge relief because it means I can start doing a few of the things that actually make me feel like me, and, of course, start working off the extra 30 pounds that I put on over the last six months, which has been a bit of an embarrassing side effect of my surgery recovery having forced me to be more sedentary than I think I've been in my entire life. And there's still a long way to go. I actually won't know until at least May if I can return to a 100% because …