Another Weekend

Abby leaves in 19 days. I am so excited for her, and certain I will be lonely without her. 

This morning I weighed in at 173.2 (173 on 8/12, reflected in chart below). It feels like a dam is breaking. I am exhausted from this morning's workout, but it feels good to see results so quickly. Because I am bone on bone on my right knee and having significant pain, they put me on the special treadmill this morning. I am cranking up the angle I am running and cutting down on the speed, to see if that helps my knee. On any given workout, my knee pain gets to about 7 or 8. Monday I will be rowing. I have a great rowing machine in my home gym, so I am going to use it here as well. I am still discovering, every time I go to the gym, how much I let myself go since losing Jenny.

Because I have a history of depression, at rehab I have to complete a questionnaire every few weeks. I write a lot here about life, but I am introspective-avoidant. This means that the answers to the questions are almost always a surprise to me too. Today was no different, and I am not as happy as I would like to be. 

 


The dates in chart above reflect the start of a given week.  At this rate, I might hit my goal around my birthday--or a little after. I hadn't counted on that.

 

Front Street, Lahaina, February 2019.

I am grateful that Ashley is okay in Lahaina. One of my oldest friends and arch supporter during the recent troubles, I was worried, even though I knew the cell towers burned. Seeing the devastation made me worry all the more. A mutual friend sent me a newspaper article detailing how Ashley had taken her fellow teachers who lost their homes (well, lost everything really) into her tiny apartment. She is just like that.


 

 

 

 

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