(Emotionally) Quiet Evening...
Got home from my water aerobics class after I spent an extra hour walking back and forth in the water. I couldn't have done that back at the start of September, so I think I've made a lot of progress over the past month. I was even able to walk from the dressing room all the way out to the parking lot without stopping today! That, in and of itself ( Read more... )
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I think it's a fringe benefit of all the exercise classes I'm taking: Four a week.
I come home after a class, take a quick nap, and then I'm raring to go the rest of the day.
It keeps my metabolism revved up as well and helps me burn lots of calories.
:^)
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Good for you. I remember being able to do that... back in my fifties... :P
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(But I'm in my mid-sixties....)
:^|
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Oh, dear, same as me, then. Now I do feel bad...
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Please don't.
I've slowly been regaining my health these past few years. The Covid isolation really set me back a considerable amount.
The sudden weight loss this summer really speeded things up for me. I'm walking better and longer without having to take as many rest stops as I once did and it's all because of that now 40+ pound weight loss!
My joints have responded the best of all to that weight loss though--I don't hurt as much anymore.
The medical industry always claims that "sudden" weight loss is bad for you but I have my doubts about that. My body, although it fights losing weight tooth and nail, once I've lost that excess weight, my body responds enthusiastically. I feel so good these days!
:^)
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I'm healthy enough, in fact, so much so the doctor said she couldn't put me on weight loss medication even if I asked for it (which I didn't). My weigh has been stable for the last five years. I'm far from slim, but obviously, the body is happy the way it is. Now to get some peace from my arthritis...
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Arthritis is such a nasty disease to have to fight too. I swear it seems as if we haven't made the least bit of headway with it during my lifetime.
My dad found himself a huge wasp nest the hard way one summer and about six of them managed to teach him a lesson in manners for rudely disturbing their nest before he could escape them. My poor dad suffered for the next three days before he finally began to feel better. Two weeks later, a strange thing happened. Dad remarked that his arthritis was gone in the arm the wasps stung him in!
I told dad that folk medicine held that wasp stings were good for arthritis and that the recent wasp attack must have done him good. Mom backed me up on this when dad loudly disbelieved me.
We talked about dad's having taken "the wasp cure" for his arthritis from then on.
Years back (I think the 40's?) there used to be a doctor who treated arthritis with snake venom down in Florida. [I was right. Here's some more information should you want to read up on the fellow: Bill Haast opened the Miami ( ... )
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It's no fun. My dad had it very badly. My case is mild compared to his, but when my fingers and wrists are barking, it's hard to remember that. Still, I'm holding off on the wasp treatment for a while, I think.
Those old folk cures survived for a reason. That's why I do acupuncture when things get really bad. It actually helps me a lot.
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"Those old folk cures survived for a reason."
Must be because they worked! It certainly wasn't because my dad believed in "the wasp cure". That was the last time he grabbed an empty box in our garage though! From that day on, he tapped the box he wanted with a broom before he grabbed it and he never got stung again.
:^)
EDIT--I still can't believe my parents acting like they thought I was wasting my time each spring patrolling the eaves of our house, garage, and fence gates and spraying all the queen wasps with flying insect killer.
I'd sooner take my chances with a single queen wasp in spring than I would her entire court of fifty or more by mid-summer.
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Good for him. I would be careful as well. They are nothing to be messed with.
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