This has been a busy week. I broke up with the uncommunicative GI because I now have a new motility doctor whom I see next week. It was a mutual parting, as I got the sense that he was not unhappy to see me go. Regardless, it is done.
I finally had a follow-up with the neurologist about my MRIs and he deemed me fine, but with an aging neck. Fair enough. Since we had the car out, we drove to our favorite kosher bakery and got sufganiot (jelly donuts) for Chanukah, as well as enough treats to literally last us a month!
And if that wasn’t enough of a day, that evening, we went to a Chanukah candle lighting at Athens Park, surrounded by statuary. Please take a moment to appreciate the irony.
Anyway, I also walked a fair amount (for me) that day, going to and from the garage and I walked part of the way home from the park. I was exhausted the next day, but seriously, Go Me!
I have also started walking stairs on the days that I don’t go outside, unless I feel really crappy, then I listen to my body.
In some ways, it feels counterproductive to me to expend calories on exercise when I am barely just beginning to scrape by with something nearing a sustainable daily caloric intake. I wonder what I am trading off. But I think the movement is important and after two years of this shit, my muscles have definitely atrophied a fair amount. So I walk what feels comfortable that day. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But always trying to push myself just a little, but not too much.
The big news of the week was that my niecelettes turned 16!!!!!!!!!! I have so many Feelings about that. The important thing is that they are impressive young women (eeek!) who have so freaking much to offer the world. I am super proud of them and love them so much.
The following day, Facebook, in its infinite wisdom, showed me a memory from 16 years ago, of Natalie on the day she was born. Exactly my thought. What a journey from such a tiny newborn to the woman she is today. This Sunrise Sunset Moment has been brought to you by Facebook.