My trip!

Mar 21, 2009

Let me tell you about my trip.  No, I didn't travel out of town or anything fun like that.  I had decided to start doing 5k races as incentive to exercise.  I am one of those people that once I sign up, I will do it.  So since the today was the first in many days to be beautiful and not raining, I decided to get up early and walk 2 miles.  I had my earphones on listening to fast music, I had my water to sip, sip, sip.  I was going at a pretty good pace when the toe of my brand new shoes hit where the sidewalk wasn't even.  I took a few steps to try to right myself but gravity wasn't letting that happen.  I didn't want to land flat on my hands because I could posibly break my wrist with my weight so I tried to twist a little so I could do that roll that you see in action movies.  So I landed on my hands but I turned so that I then landed on my right shoulder and rolled over and ended on my knees.  Bottle dropped, sunglasses flying, I realized I didn't hurt myself too bad.  My shoulder will bruise, my hands are a little scrapped.  But considering 243 lbs fell pretty hard, I was in pretty good shape. I picked everything up and started walking again.  But I realized that it hurt just a little to breath in.  And I kept on walking.  And the discomfort kept getting a little worse.  At about one mile away from home I thought about if it could have affected my gastric bypass or innerds since it had only been 6 &1/2 weeks since surgery.  at about 1.5 miles into to the walk I realized that I also had a hiatal hernia repair and diaphragm repair at the same time and hmmmm...breathing pain, diaphragm surgery.....  Well, that was when I decided to get checked out at the emergency room just to make sure.  Since I work with ER doctors and know them very well, I checked with one of them and he felt I should get a cat scan of my abdomen and pelvis (this includes the diaphragm).  Everything was normal so it is just probably the jarring from the fall.  I was sooo happy to hear this.  As the day has gone by I am getting more and more sore.  But this too shall pass.  So everyone out there, be careful walking.  I have been doing it for 46 years and you would think I would have mastered it by now...lol  Now quit reading this and go outside and enjoy this beautiful weather!

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