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VE3WBZ > OM 03.03.11 17:06l 173 Lines 7519 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: VE3WBZ@VA3BAL.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
To : OM@WW
TO: OM @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Tuesday,March 1st.,2011 @0922hrs EST
Hello Warren and fellow OMs ....
<< Quoting KB2VXA to OM @WW >>
> FB on your progress which seems considerable since you had trouble
> getting off the bike.
That was only the first time, not after that.
> Fine for the legs but what about the rest of you?
The rest of me, I have acknowledged is a patchwork of surgerys.
Scars run along me, like stiching in a Baseball. Even for the
legs, and my main interest is the kneecaps, I have had them
say....this is not the first time. BUT...I have shed my wheelchair
my cructches and cane, and can walk again. I have wrappings I
can fall back on, but if it is needed they will operate and wire
it < kneecap [platera} > together....oh fun.
During all my bouts or "stunts" as Billie calls'em , and the
knife, I have had a long recovery process and it has meant gaining
weight, as I ate normal. should of recognized this, as I was
active and burned off what I ate ...so I got fat.
Not alone there, as some of the hockey players I know, are way
more fatter then I, when we meet again.
> When it comes to keeping in shape and especially getting there
> I suggest light calesthetics (sp?) at least once a day, a mild
> workout in general.
> That's what gym class in school is all about and just as
> important later in life.
My daily calesthetics before and even trying to duplicate after
sugery<s> ...were swimming and skating, and playing retired-type
hockey. I even have a bike in the garage. BUT then problems
and operations put some out to pasture, as well some were so
hard to do, there was a threat to me.
I agree with the gym days in school. I used them to improve my
game. They even open the gyms around here for after school
adults to come in...so there you are so right, and many do this.
> Bottom line there is never mind calories burned, a PITA to
> keep track of anyway so just let them take care of themselves.
> The point here is muscle tone, nobody will ever be Superman
> but no sense being flabby even though body weight is normal.
> When you actually have to work at some chore it may as well
> go easier? This being an "open letter" you guys and gals
> reading along can take the hint too... right?
Being from a medical family, and chart keeping, I enjoy keeping
numbers of progress and that. Always helped me when playing,
to look at the stats and figure out where to improve.
I mentioned that also in my report, where I felt that mmmm
no weight loss, which indicates that there is muscle being
toned and built up, which was always something I noted when
playing.
I know the idea of a Superman...is not for me. I realized that
when I guage the before and after in some of the activities i did.
I think they are at the bottom with me now. There is no more to
remove. so, I listen to my specilatists. They have done a great
job, and I know and realize the limitations, and thus the chores
get done, and I keep to the times allowed to do them.
> Anyway, nice to know you're feeling better and here's my report
> what little there is of it. Last summer a severe health issue had
> me laid up but has been OK for a few months now and it was an
> eye opener. For years I had a rotund belly I could do nothing about
> and the issue was I blew up like a balloon and got very sick.
> My doctors couldn't figure it out but one I suppose in desparation
> prescribed "water pills" and a potassium suppliment to go along
> with them, it took a while but I returned to normal and then some,
> the belly was GONE! I got down to a fit and trim 140lbs I haven't
> seen in ages and there was my eye opener. It was simply water weight
> gain and now I know how to control it, watch my sodium intake which
> has some effect but not an entire solution being I hate a salt free
. diet. Since my weight is creeping up again it looks like I'll
> have to take them on an as needed basis, a week or two peeing like a
> horse is well worth it once in a while.
For some reason, your problem seems like one of mine. I used to
love salt and vinegar on everything.... few inches of vinegar and
a layer of salt, it seems be the image i have of those days, and
yes... the belly, and water, and yes the pills are familar.
I too feel ...well not a horse but oxen, and WOW it is so long and
frequent I time myself and where we drive so I can get to a washroom.
My weight, as alwas gone up and down, and 180 to 230 and flopped even
lower when really sick. In school, the pool would make me sick.
Got the instructor mad at us, for something that was never discovered
and oh well that stopped when in reliation for his silly stuff to me
I used to drop "Fizzies" and 'Baby Ruths' in his pool...which got
better reaction from him, then his idea to get me to take pool.
He never could accept the Doctor's note ...
Keep the tests going Warren.
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> So it turned out that I get a beer belly and I very seldom touch the
> stuff. (;->) So there's my report and another bottle in the medicine
> chest... oh I hate getting old.
That was neato ... a disconnect...
I got a beer belly after my big surgery for cancer. That was
after another one, and after the cancer it seemed I was in for something
else. It came because the orders were ... sit home and do nothing.
SO imagine me with new skates...they hung in the garage for years
until I threw them out. They rotted. Cracked etc. same for the
bike. And they told me NO more sailboats. Now..phooey I am sailing
again...looking at a really fast boat... as well I got the GNWB and
looking to restore my old 10speed Raleigh, which has one "L" of a
weight to it compared to the latest out there. I know it I am improving
as I know you too...as you still ride your bike. As well you walk
too like other of the OM @WW ...
Don't see that extra bottle in the medicine chest as an albatros
but a lifesaver or ring to help you over a bump in the road
of life.
Yeah getting OLD is a bummer... the golden years...and others
BUT...WE and some of us are not in the retirement homes, where
they take your hobbys away or deny them to you....and try to
making life so boring you want to croak in depression and boredom.
I am on the GNWB... then I hope this sprig the real bike, as well
out there walking < heel spurs>..also swimming...I don't care if
it is only 9 feet...at least I am splashing about...hahahahahaha.
Add to that... going out to the flicks, and camping, and an active
life.
>
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> Message timed by NIST: 13:14 on 2011-Feb-28 GMT
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> [End of Message #86007 from KB2VXA]
Thanks Warren. I hope in my smartalex way, I have brought a
smile to your face...also encouragement, no matter what ... and
in our fellowship of the Order of the OM ...too ...too....aaaah
senior moment...lost triaan of thought. and besides thanks for
posting our glorous emblem of the lodge <g>
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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