Just woke up at about 7:30am and realized that I've missed a pretty important event. I had been invited by Dra Dizon 2 nights before to join in the "Ta Run Na Abe" ( Come on Let's Run), a 2.5, 5 ,10, & 21 km marathon/ fun run organized by a medical organization (group of Family Med MDs) which supposedly had started at 5 am this morning....
Nah, running is not for me, and yes to support that, my companions here at home are still in cloud 9 snoring. I would just get a tiger look if I woke them and forced them to go with me. I've been telling them esp my better half about the event and what if we join in just for fun. Yep my invitation entered their left and exited their right ear..
:( . It looks pitiful if I alone would set off for it in Clark so I rested my case.
Though well rested I still feel I've missed a lot and so I turned on that threadmill machine & in spirit, joined them marathoners while watching David Foster (The Hitman and Friends DVD). The music is superb and keeps me to the beat, it distracts me from being tired though I just have to stop at 2.8 km in 30 mins ( a pre set program). I'm not an endurance conditioned man. Besides I don't have a cardiac monitor attached on me...
It was always my goal to remain healthy but I just had an attack of an irregular heart (atrial fibrillation) December 2005 after having had a drink in our Christmas party. A series of tests while being confined showed that I have a bicuspid aortic valve, a 28% stenotic obstruction in my right coronary artery, and hypertriglyceridemia. My world literally stopped during that time as I always limited myself from doing physical activities, just walking gives me chest discomfort. I felt depressed not being able to help my wife with our daily bread. Yep, one sad thing about being a doctor is you may earn much bigger while working but when you stop (like when you get sick), nothing will go in.
But then I recall my good friend-colleague Edgar telling me, "Hey, you're still too young and you have small kids to look out for. Don't let this control you.". When this got into me, I suddenly realized the truth in what he said. Though I've been on maintenance since then, am glad to be almost always symptom free for the past 7 years. I've been "fortunate" enough to have fatty liver, GB stones (had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 2009), & kidney stones (had shock wave lithotripsy in Dec 2011) but what the heck, I remain committed to reach a ripe old age of 90 so I could still meet & even play with my grand kids.
I'm formulating an exercise plan despite my toxic schedule as a practitioner, my patients are not quite benign nowadays (have had 4 intubated ICU patients this week :( ). It's hard but will be using some tools to achieve this, I'll be sharing them in the next posts (tools I learned from success mentors). Yep, there's the diet thing, I eat like a true blue Kapampangan, salty and fatty foodstuffs are really hard to resist especially when all the people in the household crave for them and that our helpers are great cooks. That's an extra challenge to use tools upon.
Good luck!!
No comments:
Post a Comment