This morning was the fifth annual Solivita Walk/Run for the Cure, sponsored by my American Cancer Society Relay for Life Team, The Cancer Support Group of Solivita. I walked the two miles in 2011 in 48 minutes. Last year the walk was shortened to a mile and a half, which I completed in 31 minutes. This morning it was the same mile and a half as last year, and I have to report that I added a few minutes to the time, making it in 33 minutes. I felt okay about that.
Sadly, the weight has increased each year. In 2011, the walk was in the middle of March, after our 19 day cruise on the Celebrity Century. I weighed 248, I think. Last year it was in mid-February and I weighed around 255. Now I weigh 266.3. Apparently the extra weight isn't slowing me down too much. I know I was slow the first year because it was in between chemo and radiation. I was still very sluggish from the chemo drugs floating around in my system. Last year I thought I was walking pretty fast, but I was disgusted at my weight. Now I'm walking about as fast but weigh more. Go figure. All I can attribute it to is that I have walked a lot in preparing for this morning. I walked almost every day of the last two weeks in anticipation, so it paid off. I'm happy to have done it in just 33 minutes.
It's also Weigh-in Wednesday, and I've already said I weighed 266.3 this morning. As high as that it, I consider it good news. It's exactly what I weighed two weeks ago when we left on the vacation. That means I finally managed to stay the same on a big cruise and driving trip. I finally managed to balance the calories in vs. the calories out. I don't often do that very well, so I'm pretty pleased with myself.
Soon we are going over to the WDW area to meet up with Mark's old high school friend, Vinnie, and his wife, Annette. They have a time share here in February. Last year they came over to Poinciana for the day and saw our house. This time we are going over to visit their time share condo and have lunch out with them. I hope I do ok with the lunch out. Then tonight Mark will make us a nice Shabbat dinner at home.
Tomorrow night is Purim, but we have not gotten any hamantaschen to eat. It's kind of sad. I'm sure I could go buy some at the local stores, but we decided that neither one of us needed to eat them. If they serve some at services tomorrow night, then we'll take one. I did send some fancy ones out to our kids, so I hope they are enjoying the holiday a little bit when they eat them.
Our vacation was just everything we wanted it to be. We did some sight-seeing around the Fort Lauderdale area, visited some family and friends, had a lovely cruise, and finished with a day on the beach in Miami. We even extended that vacation feeling when we drove home yesterday. We got into the area around 1:30 in the afternoon. Having no food in the house, we ate lunch and dinner out and also spent some of the afternoon laying by the pool. Now we will be home until April 24 when we begin a six week trip, driving north to Maryland and NY. In between we will have overnight guests two, maybe three times, and celebrate Passover.
We are enjoying our retirement to the fullest!
Of course, I'd also like to comment that our good friend, Al N., is in the hospital today, having spinal surgery. He has recently been diagnosed with a blood cancer, myeloma, which has attacked his spine. We pray that all goes well with the surgery. He's having some rods inserted to strengthen the spine. He was on the brink of being paralyzed from the deterioration in the spine due to the cancer. Hopefully, he will get some pain relief from this surgery. His recovery is estimated at two weeks and then cancer treatments will begin for the myeloma. Mark and I are keeping Al on our prayer lists, and his name has been added to both our FL and our MD synagogue prayer lists. We wish him a speedy and full recovery of both body and spirit. I also wish his wife, Barbara, all the best as she continues to be his full time care giver. That is also a role that can take its toll on a person. Hang in there, Barb and Al! Lots of people are praying for you.
No comments:
Post a Comment