If I had to pick a theme song right now, that’s what it would be.
To recap the health progress to date: I’ve now undergone two steroid injections, one in the lumbar spine and one is the tailbone. As they have worked their way into my system, I have been able to:
- Make dinner for the family several times
- Clean in the kitchen, washing a few dishes at a time
- Easily walk around the house for up to 15 minutes at a time, doing various chores, picking things up off the floor, clear the table (leaning forward, standing up, carrying things)
- Start going places by myself (without Jacob along to push my wheelchair or go into run an errand on my behalf)
- Including driving alone to physical therapy, walking in, doing 40 minutes of work, and walking out again, solo
- Going shopping in a grocery store
- And, for two Sundays in a row, walked into church, sat in a pew with the family, stood easily for all the standing portions of the liturgy, walked forward for communion, and walked out again afterwards – all with zero pain or fatigue.
The amount of joy filling my soul as I perform every one of these activities is incalculable. You really can’t understand what doing normal life stuff means to me! I mean, seeing my weight drop even further, 292 at last check, is great and all, but I have bigger plans…
So, I am stepping up my game (pun entirely intended) by adding step climbing to my home workouts. While I could wish I had a two-story house right now, I’m making do with one step, on repeat. I’m trying to do sets of one story at a time (20 steps per story), working my way up to 5 story sets, which is what I had to climb several times a day when I lived in a dormitory at Prairie Bible College so many years ago.
Two sets done already today, and I feel like this guy:
I’m telling you, when I can take the laundry job back from my husband I’ll know my recovery is complete!
