Tag: surgery

Eye surgery day, body

Eye surgery is scary.

dad

Asleep and naked.

Nothing to hide.

Like most days (year-round actually), i wore only running shorts and running shoes.

Note: The last three sentences were written last night as a kickstarter for this blog. It turned out differently…

Arrived in jean shirts, wearing running shorts underneath, two t-shirts and a jacket.

Escorted back to the prep area and didn’t need to remove any clothing. The room was warmer than the freezing waiting room, so i ditched the jacket.

A delightful first.

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Age means nothing and exercise gets unfairly criticized

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Motivation IS Oxygen – without purpose we are doomed

 

The 70-something woman who has never exercised commented last night that she has much more energy after her physical therapy sessions.

Afterwards she has the energy to do four or five errands – something previously unheard of.

For five weeks she’s been going to therapy to strengthen her legs because in five days she is having knee replacement surgery.

The stereotype is that exercise makes us tired.

Guess again.

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Comeback 2013 update.

Dr Jorge Florin is exceptional, and the same age as jeff noel
Dr Jorge Florin is exceptional, and the same age as jeff noel

 

Comeback 2013 update. Ran 18 minutes without stopping yesterday. One and a half miles.

This morning no run, although there is a bit of a race…

To get everyone and everything in the car by 6am.

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Wishing you the best today, and a really nice carrot

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An honest question, how many folks who sign up for this are still exercising five years later?

 

The real goal of wanting, and becoming qualified and brave enough, to go Nationals is simply this:

A carrot to keep moving forward.

That’s all. Nothing more, nothing less.

It is in being unable to run that the true nature of why I run becomes so crystal clear.

Wishing you the best today, and a really nice carrot.

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Health is wealth is such an understatement

Two post inguinal hernia repair surgery medications
The hospital was very wise, they knew I’d need both these bottles, desperately

 

The things we take for granted until we don’t have them – walking, getting in and out of bed, bowel movements.

When you’re bedridden, the extent of exercise consists of getting in and out of bed, especially when you’ve been given a narcotic to mask the pain, it’s decently serious.

Having a daily routine that can not be performed, well, it quickly becomes a major issue. Thank goodness for the second bottle.

Second day of recovery, went for a 200 meter walk (end of street and back). I asked Cheryl, “Have you ever seen me walk this slow”. She smiled and half-laughed, “No!”.

Insight: The hard work of exercise is worth every invisible, non-obvious, taken-for-granted benefit it provides.

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