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First try posting on dreamwidth and cross posting to LJ. We'll see if I can remember to keep doing this. And I can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted last!
In May 2016, I successfully completed my first (and likely only!) full marathon, walking all the way. My body decided it doesn't like walking over 15 miles and it took over 6 months for my knee to let me walk without a brace after the marathon was over. I then did my second half marathon in August, which happened to be on a day with 85 degree temps and 85% humidity. I sweat like crazy anyway, but that day was ridiculous. The sweat was actually dripping off the brim of my hat!
I'm now 3 and a half years post gastric bypass and have gained back about 20 pounds over the last year. This past summer was so damn hot and humid, I wasn't keeping up with my walking as well as I should have (and I wasn't doing much yardwork either). So, goal for this year is to not only walk a half marathon in both spring and fall, so I have a race to constantly be training for, but to keep up with the daily dog walks, even if it means going out after dark with Cooper.
My surgeon is still happy with my current weight loss of 140 pounds, but I just feel bloated all the time, so need to lose that 20 pounds again.
In Cooper news, he's now 7 1/2 and I'm being a neurotic dog mom, worrying about how half his life expectancy is gone and how devastated I'll be when he's gone. I wonder how much of that is exacerbated by losing dad and both grandmothers within the past couple of years. Cooper is now starting to have problems jumping up on things, including the couch some days, so I can see the signs that he's getting older. He actually fell trying to get in bed with me a few months ago, necessitating me taking the thick foam mattress topper off my bed to lower the height a bit. I already had some floor pillows stacked up next to the bed for him to jump on, but that wasn't enough. I'm now looking into steps, and will have to reorganize my bedroom if I have to go that route, so the steps aren't in the middle of the room.
The other stress in my life is still my brother, who now hasn't worked in at least 5 years. He's got severe stomach issues (IBS, some type of colitis, etc) and had a breakdown after dad and the grandmas died. He's in a program to help with coping and mental health but they don't see improvement as well as they want, so just upped the amount of days he goes to that. He finally listened to my mom and I and applied for disability in August and is still working his way through the process with interviews and requests for more info. He's apparently been turned down for one form of benefits, but they are still working on the other. My mom basically pays all his bills, which she had to take a home equity loan out to do for one more year. When dad was still alive, they used some of the money the VA gave him to pay my brother to be a caretaker for him, which is what that money was for. Now that dad is gone, so are those benefits. I helped mom do a budget and if she didn't have that to worry about, she's okay financially. If he gets turned down completely, he'd have to move in with mom or I and neither one of us wants that. We would want to kill him within a few days.
In fannish fun, I'm reading a ton. Winter is great for that. Mostly NCIS (love Tony!), Stargate, and Harry Potter. Plus Losers, and Marvel, and H5O and anything shiny that catches my attention. I realized I have over 400 tabs open in my browser with fics I opened and never had the chance to read. Must clear the backlog as it's now driving me nuts to know it's there taunting me.
Final resolution for the year...try to post more!
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In May 2016, I successfully completed my first (and likely only!) full marathon, walking all the way. My body decided it doesn't like walking over 15 miles and it took over 6 months for my knee to let me walk without a brace after the marathon was over. I then did my second half marathon in August, which happened to be on a day with 85 degree temps and 85% humidity. I sweat like crazy anyway, but that day was ridiculous. The sweat was actually dripping off the brim of my hat!
I'm now 3 and a half years post gastric bypass and have gained back about 20 pounds over the last year. This past summer was so damn hot and humid, I wasn't keeping up with my walking as well as I should have (and I wasn't doing much yardwork either). So, goal for this year is to not only walk a half marathon in both spring and fall, so I have a race to constantly be training for, but to keep up with the daily dog walks, even if it means going out after dark with Cooper.
My surgeon is still happy with my current weight loss of 140 pounds, but I just feel bloated all the time, so need to lose that 20 pounds again.
In Cooper news, he's now 7 1/2 and I'm being a neurotic dog mom, worrying about how half his life expectancy is gone and how devastated I'll be when he's gone. I wonder how much of that is exacerbated by losing dad and both grandmothers within the past couple of years. Cooper is now starting to have problems jumping up on things, including the couch some days, so I can see the signs that he's getting older. He actually fell trying to get in bed with me a few months ago, necessitating me taking the thick foam mattress topper off my bed to lower the height a bit. I already had some floor pillows stacked up next to the bed for him to jump on, but that wasn't enough. I'm now looking into steps, and will have to reorganize my bedroom if I have to go that route, so the steps aren't in the middle of the room.
The other stress in my life is still my brother, who now hasn't worked in at least 5 years. He's got severe stomach issues (IBS, some type of colitis, etc) and had a breakdown after dad and the grandmas died. He's in a program to help with coping and mental health but they don't see improvement as well as they want, so just upped the amount of days he goes to that. He finally listened to my mom and I and applied for disability in August and is still working his way through the process with interviews and requests for more info. He's apparently been turned down for one form of benefits, but they are still working on the other. My mom basically pays all his bills, which she had to take a home equity loan out to do for one more year. When dad was still alive, they used some of the money the VA gave him to pay my brother to be a caretaker for him, which is what that money was for. Now that dad is gone, so are those benefits. I helped mom do a budget and if she didn't have that to worry about, she's okay financially. If he gets turned down completely, he'd have to move in with mom or I and neither one of us wants that. We would want to kill him within a few days.
In fannish fun, I'm reading a ton. Winter is great for that. Mostly NCIS (love Tony!), Stargate, and Harry Potter. Plus Losers, and Marvel, and H5O and anything shiny that catches my attention. I realized I have over 400 tabs open in my browser with fics I opened and never had the chance to read. Must clear the backlog as it's now driving me nuts to know it's there taunting me.
Final resolution for the year...try to post more!
This entry was originally posted at https://kamadu.dreamwidth.org/402693.html. Please comment there using OpenID.