Ionized83’s BodyBlog

So I’m definitely back in the ‘game’ of things when it comes to eating better, and maintaining an exercise routine.  The holidays seemed to hit hard for me and threw me off the wagon to success, but I’m back on!  I’ve acutally got serious enough to get involved with a dietician -along with my family Dr. 

I have new motivation now though, and that is my Dad.  My Dad is 44yo, he just turned 44 Nov of 2008.  Recently he had bronchitis and before heading to work he took out 2 bags of garbage, well while holding them up, he coughed and this brought him to the ground.  He made it back inside his home by crawling, and he wasn’t sure what happened.  Later we all found he had fractured L1 Vertebral body in his lower back.

Your bones in your back should just break from a cough, so tests were done, and the bad news was given.  My Dad was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (Bone Cancer.)  He’s set on a six month chemotherapy treatment and though the prognosis sounds good, hes in horrible pain with his injury.  It has really made a huge impact in debilitating him.

See him with a Cane and sometimes with a Walker, when his pain is at its worse, in hindsight, has shown me how important it is to be thankful in having the ability in weight lifting, and doing things he now finds challenging.

So when I’m not feeling in the mood to head to the gym to push iron, or to get up and take that jog, I always think to myself that I can, knowing presently it is something that my Dad cannot do. 

He’s optomistic as am I.  But this is my new motivation.

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