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Re: Fear of exercise
Re: Bugger, bugger, bugger
Thank-you for the support. It helps to be able to share with others who understand that scan fear. :)xxx
Re: Fear of exercise
it is wonderful and a great workout!
Just when you think you can't.....turns out you can!
I haven't had a chance to be on here
in a while and have been missing you lot I hope everyone is getting along ok
no matter what stage of the rollercoaster you are at.
So, what the heck have I been doing????
The problem
Broken husband. Poor DH has been dealing with a crook
shoulder for close to a couple of years now. It
finally froze up a month or so ago. Shoulder recon booked. What should have been a 1.5 hr surgery turned into 4
hours and looking at about 3 months recovery and rehab. Two out of three dams dry and the third
so low its almost useless. 25 horses
boarding at the moment. Hubby unable to pump water from dam and truck to the paddocks,
can’t drive, can’t work, in a sling and in pain, yada, yada, yada.
The solution
Resurrect ancient auto-watering
system within a month before his surgery. This thing clapped out 6 months after I
moved in, hasn’t run in over a decade and contains a bazillion leaking joins over about 5kms of underground poly pipe of varying sizes, anywhere up to a foot deep, with only a
guess at where it all lies.
Work out how to fit “Watergate” resurrection,
twice daily feeding and rugging of 25 horses, my job and all the usual
household stuff into the 24 hours available in a day. Deal with any other surprise repairs on the property which will inevitably occur. This place is my nemesis and my love. aaggghhh
Oh, and decide how to fit in extra
work so as not to be living out of a trolley on the footpath with very large
silly dog due to 4 months of one income. Deal with stupid drug side effects
aches, pains, etc along the way. Luckily the one SE I haven’t had to deal with is fatigue thank goodness.
Daunting to say the least. I had absolutely no idea how, or if, I was
going to cope with all this and was feeling incredibly overwhelmed really.
The plan
There is no choice and nil options. Just make a start. Plenty of time to sleep
when your…well you know.
The result.
Day upon day I have picked it, shoveled it, thread
taped it, replaced it, modified it, put holes in it accidently and re repaired
it, been knee deep in mud holes and drenched when it blew out unexpectedly in my face. Moved troughs and manufactured cages to keep horses from playing with water floats.
I’ve gotten frustrated and cried at it and
said the F word a billion times.
My
house looks likes it’s been napalmed as zero time to do anything but washing
and some form of cooking.
Average step count per day 35,000. 4 kgs lighter, some wobbly bits are a bit less wobbly. LOL
I can hardly move my hip and back
are that bad now, all my joints are creaking and crunching and every muscle hurts. Whoever said exercise is good for you needs
their head read.
But guess what? At 3pm the
afternoon before his surgery it was done and working.
I freaking did it! .
Feeling totally exhausted but somewhat chuffed.
Now where the heck is my wine? Cheers lovelies.
Hugs to everybody.
xoxoxooxxoxooxoxoox
Re: On Our Walks
Darwin City from out in the harbour
Sunset at sea.
Re: On Our Walks
arpie took this photo.
This airstrip is one of the many that my father worked on, leading up to the war, cutting trees and clearing the area for the airstrips and highway. Most of the tree clearing was done by manual labour using axes. No chainsaws. Hard, hard yakka.
Re: On Our Walks
arpie has run out of data on her phone so I am mobile tethering some of mine. It's what you do for "breastie" friends on holiday. And what's more old dogs know about useful technology.
So here is arpies brag photo of her Big Barra Adventure yesterday.
She had to put it back. It was deemed too small!
And just to prove that arpie and I are behaving ourselves, the odd fellow on the right is our trusty chauffeur and "keeper in line".
Photos of wartime Darwin evacuees.