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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 17, 2023 | Replies (4297)Comment receiving replies
@ess77, You are truly a girl after my heart! Whenever I get stressed, disappointed or outraged, I head straight for the yard if weather permits. With the concerns for your son coupled with your own health issues, I am thrilled to hear that you were able to spend 3 hours blowing off debris left by the lawn fellas!
Spending anytime outside is beneficial for my outlook and provides a diversion from whatever seems to be bedeviling me most at the moment. How well I can relate to your arduous after effects concerns following that much time and exercise. Sometimes I come inside after most of a day in my yard thinking I am just too tired to move and wish for someone/anyone lol to just feed me and carry me off to bed.
With less energy and "muscle" now, I've decided that physical effort is like training for a marathon. Each early spring finds me "giving out" before I want to "give up" when clearing leaves and a new crop of weeds from my yard and flower beds. Gradually, more stamina seems to build and I can work for longer periods with fewer breaks. Here's hoping that getting back into the pool will further strengthen you and provide more resilience for work with nature's little growing beauties.
It sounds as though your support system is strong and that your son is beginning to get more of the help he needs. Stress can sometimes seem to freeze my body with the tenseness it engenders "locking" my muscles in place. Great news that you are on a pathway that will lead to more physical mobility and happiness in the sun.
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@fiesty76 You are such a dear person, fiesty! Thanks for the good words, and yes, this has always been one way I deal with my issues in life, be they work/business issues, health findings, family problems, whatever...I've always found I best work them out moving furniture and rearranging rooms or crazy hazy yard work or the flowers and patio or when I was much younger, exercise.
So, makes sense I'd do this but for crying out loud, I haven't been able to sweep or rake or lift at all for several years! This was wonderful for me emotionally.....I did need an outlet or I needed to go to the forest and scream!!!!!! physically, my body is crying out for movement! This was it! Spiritually, my soul needed to be closer to nature, to feel the soil and dirt, be involved with God's creations......and now I enjoy the results of the work I did by not tracking in squigglies and leaves and by enjoying the order, seeing the plants happy, the flowering plants and pots on the patio.....I'm hiring someone to do my son's patio and mine, the clearing and digging and planting etc. I'm doing what I can and will enjoy, but I want some stones installed and other heavier things, and I can't overdo this.
Just called the pool....YMCA not opened it yet, but Brooks Rehab is using it for rehab, so I can get my doc to write another script and get going again. That's next week.
Just got call from Mayo for another endoscopy, to stretch the Schatzi Ring they found. They wanted to wait for path reports re Barrett's Esophogus and polyps and other areas before doing that procedure....so, have to have another one. Concerned about another sedation so soon, especially w/white matter issues.....will ck with docs...and she ordered an abdomen MR, too. So it goes...
Glad you're doing better. Keep it up!
Blessings, elizabeth