Redneck. Rehab
I REFUSE TO BE AN OLD WOMAN AT 53! I've decided the only way to go about getting my muscles back is a bit of good old fashioned back yard gym. I've got about 8 tonnes of wood to split and stack and another whole tree on the way. That, and a decent bushwalk a couple of times a week should do it.
I am a protein consuming machine at the moment, a trout for breakfast? Why not! I may never be up to running and jumping again. But. I. Will. Not. Be. Feeble.
Then, when that's done I have a few holes to dig. And a horse to ride (once I get my balance back)
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And what are you doing after lunch?
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Marg, I totally agree!! love your attitude!!! and I soooo refuse also at 49 to be god damn FEEBLE!!!! PFFFT!!! NOT HAPPENING!! xo1
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And they say what do you do with your time???????????2
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No exercise physiologist in the area that could set you up with a home program, funded under a GP health plan for people with chronic conditions? I had one after a prior illness and it helped.
Mind you ...doing all that work is certainly not feeble...just try not to fall in the woodpile like I did when on chemo.
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@primek There doesn't seem to be any help available if I can't fit in with the structured program offered through the hospital, though I will ask my GP. At the moment I'm relying on what the breast care nurses are telling me.
I've got a pretty good idea what I should be doing--God knows I've spent enough time being coached through sporting injuries and heaving myself around in a gym to have the basics covered. I just haven't got the motivation to push myself unless someone is prodding me or I can compete with myself to get a task done.
I'd like to get some stretching program sorted out that is a bit more structured and focused than what I'm currently doing. It would be really nice to do that somewhere else for a little while--my floors are that covered in dog hair at the moment it is both disgusting and distracting
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I am exhausted just reading that! Who needs a physio? Go girl!!!!1
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@Zoffiel, you're amazing!! Have you thought along the lines of if you can't access a program in person what about an online program? I'm sure that there would be something that would fit the bill and you could schedule a set time to do it (like you would if you were doing it with someone else) and you could do it in between chopping your wood and building your new shed 1
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Sympathetic as I am to the problems of young women getting breast cancer (or any cancer) I was very irritated by this website which I hit one night by accident. The Canadians are usually better than this. www.rethinkbreastcancer.com. At 71 I'll wear the tag (with the irrits) but lumping the many, many women who get breast cancer in their 40s and 50s into the old women category is not on. Clearly my good tempered remonstrance to them did no good at all as it's still up. Maybe we all need to take up woodchopping - a woman with an axe is hard to argue with.
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Still on the home cooked physio theme--compression sports tights really help with the pain in my leg muscles. I decided to give it a go today. After a couple of hours in the backyard gym I smelled truely terrible (they sure make you sweat) but the difference was noticeable, particularly when I took them off.
I'm glad no one was around to see me struggling to get my bloated body into them! The puma logo logo looked like an illustration of Fat Cat and I resembled a poorly tied sausage, but it was worth it for the support. Highly recommend anyone struggling with myalgia gives them a try (buy the cheap ones from Aldi or Kmart)6 -
Bwahahaha - at the end of the day I have Humphrey B Bears stomach!!!2
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Ohhh Marg gee you make me laugh so hard honestly!!! xo0
