I feel like such a whiner

I have been sick for a week. Last Saturday I threw up, an event preceded and followed by much stomach pain. Now along with more stomach pain and lack of appetite and exhaustion, I have had diarrhea for four days. I am crossing my fingers that it won't continue today, but I am really tired of bring sick and really discouraged. It is hard to keep my chin up. AND I have not been able to keep up my exercising so it will take me a while to get back in shape when I am finally better. (It takes PWPs longer than others to recover from this sort of thing.) It is easy to say, "Have a good attitude." It is much hard to keep that attitude consistently. But it certainly won't happen if we don't even make the effort.

I must realize that others are trying to make the effort for me. Whenever anyone says they hope I feel better, I may think, Yeh, yeh, yeh, but in truth I should see it as a community attempt to keep up my attitude. And whenever my husband brings me something to drink, that is his effort to help me make my effort.

So I WILL be better soon, and in the meantime, SOMEHOW I will keep moving! 

New book on Parkinson's exercise

I have received the new book that Becky Farley has just released  on her PWR! Moves program of exercise. It is not really anything I did not already know because I have heard Becky speak numerous times, as well as having attended her exercise retreat twice. And my personal trainer Sarah uses her methods as well. But it is nice to have it explained better, and presented in a whole concept, although her presentation is a little haphazard to me. Still once again, it offers the proverbial kick in the butt. Which I ALWAYS need.

Becky' foundation is a set of four moves -- reaching, rocking, twisting and stepping. These each can be done prone, supine, seated or standing. And they can be boosted, i.e. enhanced, by hand, speech, breathing or brain exercises.  I plan to review all of these possibilities even though I already do lots of these. It doesn't hurt to rework my system regularly. I really believe that if I can keep up this exercise thing, I can keep my PD at bay (dare I add ... Indefinitely?).

This week was the 16 th anniversary of my diagnosis. Wow! Keep moving!

Life is discipline

Today is Ash Wednesday, so there is talk of what you are going to give up for Lent ( or take on). For me the decision just popped into my head ... Exercise is saving my life, so my life must be the discipline of exercise. I resolved to go to the gym three times a week during Lent.

But then I went to my dermatologist checkup and had to get a plantar wart on the ball of my foot frozen off and it hurts like hell and I can hardly walk. So I am not going to the gym tomorrow. But there is always the day after tomorrow. I must keep moving!