Life doesn't always turn out like you plan.....

Today I set off for my first walk since leaving hospital.  Taking advantage of the warm sunshine, I set out just after lunch and strolled down to the creek.  I coped ok on the way there but struggled quite a bit on the return 500m. My lung (the one that I had the pneumonia in) burned quite badly on the way back and I started to cough quite a bit.  I arrived home tired and clammy but happy that I'd taken the first step back towards daily exercise and wellbeing. While my focus at present is on improving my health, I am keeping my weight and weight loss in mind.  My losing continues to be very slow but I'm pleased to say that I'm down another kilo.

When I started my focus on weight loss and wellbeing a year ago I never could have imagined that my journey would have been so S.L.O.W.  I understood that my health would be a long term journey but I really expected to have lost weight far more quickly and that I'd be happily at goal now.  I rather suspect that if I knew that my weight loss journey would be this glacially slow I would have given up before I started. As it is, I set my foot on this path 12 months ago and although the journey has not turned out as I had imagined, I find myself with no interest in giving up.  While experiencing moments of disappointment with my progress and the increasing complexity of my medical situation I find myself happy to have lost almost 10kgs and to have mainly kept this off. Prior to my pneumonia I was extremely pleased with the progress I had made with my daily walk, having found a new route I enjoyed and being able to successfully walk for 35 minutes or more each day without crashing back into fatigue.  This was a HUGE improvement on what I had been physically able to achieve for many years and I know I'll get back to this walk as my body heals.  Maybe I'm like a diamond and am simply taking a long time to form.... :)

Missing in Action

My journey to wellbeing has been nothing if not interesting.  It reminds me of a muddled ball of yarn where finding your way requires bobbing up and down, twisting, turning, retracing your steps and sitting in perplexed confusion over the whole thing before you. I am currently in hospital with pneumonia. I've now been here 4 days and was ill for a few days before. For some reason I am quite shocked to find myself in this position.  Pneumonia wasn't even on my radar I suppose.  How can I be sick again? Oh well, I'm in the right place to deal with it and am receiving excellent medical care and feel very relaxed and comfortable here which has to help.

Don't know when I'll next have much to post as I am not often on the computer here in hospital and really don't feel particularly inspired to say much.  Will get back to it once I get well and home.  On a positive note, I now know I'm allergic to penicillin......