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Good Morning Warriors!
Today starts a new week and a dedication to some goals for me to accomplish to make me stronger mentally and physically….it is definitely something that is needed. It has been a very long year this past 12 months or so with more stresses than I care to remember piled on each other. I am sure as the months go on; I will start to share them with all of you as the come to resolutions, positive or negative, because either way, I can really use the support, or at least a safe “place” to talk it out.
So the first to start to find a temporary resolution is with my grandparents and my mother’s health. A few months ago, I ended up with my mother and my grandfather in the hospital at the same time, making me the primary decision maker on both of their health issues. Luckily, my mother was nothing as serious as the doctor’s originally thought and she recovered quickly. However, my 95 year old grandfather, who has not really had any kind of issues with his health, is now to the point where the body is starting to let itself go. He is still able to function daily with some sort of assistance from occasional caregivers or my mother, but every week you notice something else slowing down mentally and/or physically. Then, a month after that, my grandmother, who is 91 and basically healthy except for dementia that is continuing to come on strong, went to the doctor for back pain and found that she had a large cancerous tumor in her colon. We opted for surgery in hopes to make whatever time she may have left more comfortable and she has now gone through rehab, recovered from the surgery and is relatively back to almost where she was before the surgery. The point is, I spent the last few days helping my mom finally get both of them in an assisted living facility that kept them together despite their differing health statuses. Hopefully now, at least for a little while until whatever phase comes next, the stress level will come down a bit for my mother, which will lower it for me as well. My main concern is and has been keeping something from happening to her while she has been dealing with all the stress of end of life decisions for her parents.
So now with one of the stressors somewhat under control for the time being, and despite the stress of the other issues in other areas of life I am dealing with daily, I need to start re-building some of my foundation that has been lost along this past year’s journey. Even though I have put together a whole rotation around a full undulating STS plan, I am going to just start with focusing on this first week to get some accomplishment under my belt. So this week, I plan to do my first 3 C25K run/walks, play tennis 2x, all 3 STS workouts for the week and cardio of some kind on the weekday mornings. I have the week laid out, but will organize each day based on what is happening in the day so I don’t talk myself out of continuing with plan because its not “perfect” to what I arranged on paper.
Oh yeah, I have one more goal for this week….to start to be a better warrior check-in buddy. I have been reading all along and enjoy learning about how everyone is doing, even the tough things (Mary, I am sorry you have such a tough road ahead with Simon, but I am hopeful to hear you are going to visit him, I hope you enjoy your time there) they daily stories help me along my day and I want to be able to participate fully, in time, with all of you as well.
Check back with all of you later. Have a good Monday!
Today starts a new week and a dedication to some goals for me to accomplish to make me stronger mentally and physically….it is definitely something that is needed. It has been a very long year this past 12 months or so with more stresses than I care to remember piled on each other. I am sure as the months go on; I will start to share them with all of you as the come to resolutions, positive or negative, because either way, I can really use the support, or at least a safe “place” to talk it out.
So the first to start to find a temporary resolution is with my grandparents and my mother’s health. A few months ago, I ended up with my mother and my grandfather in the hospital at the same time, making me the primary decision maker on both of their health issues. Luckily, my mother was nothing as serious as the doctor’s originally thought and she recovered quickly. However, my 95 year old grandfather, who has not really had any kind of issues with his health, is now to the point where the body is starting to let itself go. He is still able to function daily with some sort of assistance from occasional caregivers or my mother, but every week you notice something else slowing down mentally and/or physically. Then, a month after that, my grandmother, who is 91 and basically healthy except for dementia that is continuing to come on strong, went to the doctor for back pain and found that she had a large cancerous tumor in her colon. We opted for surgery in hopes to make whatever time she may have left more comfortable and she has now gone through rehab, recovered from the surgery and is relatively back to almost where she was before the surgery. The point is, I spent the last few days helping my mom finally get both of them in an assisted living facility that kept them together despite their differing health statuses. Hopefully now, at least for a little while until whatever phase comes next, the stress level will come down a bit for my mother, which will lower it for me as well. My main concern is and has been keeping something from happening to her while she has been dealing with all the stress of end of life decisions for her parents.
So now with one of the stressors somewhat under control for the time being, and despite the stress of the other issues in other areas of life I am dealing with daily, I need to start re-building some of my foundation that has been lost along this past year’s journey. Even though I have put together a whole rotation around a full undulating STS plan, I am going to just start with focusing on this first week to get some accomplishment under my belt. So this week, I plan to do my first 3 C25K run/walks, play tennis 2x, all 3 STS workouts for the week and cardio of some kind on the weekday mornings. I have the week laid out, but will organize each day based on what is happening in the day so I don’t talk myself out of continuing with plan because its not “perfect” to what I arranged on paper.
Oh yeah, I have one more goal for this week….to start to be a better warrior check-in buddy. I have been reading all along and enjoy learning about how everyone is doing, even the tough things (Mary, I am sorry you have such a tough road ahead with Simon, but I am hopeful to hear you are going to visit him, I hope you enjoy your time there) they daily stories help me along my day and I want to be able to participate fully, in time, with all of you as well.
Check back with all of you later. Have a good Monday!
