Re: joining a gym--Jen 2

[Guest guest]

Hi Jen 2,

Have you though about calling up gym's and asking if they have an assistance

program. Maybe letting them know your situation and how you will be limited to

what you will be doing.

One thing I am glad for with my husband's job, we don't have to pay gym

membership fees because there is a Fitness Center on base. I do not go to the

Fitness Center because of one of the things I have is so limiting in what I can

do that all I can do for physical therapy for it is minor at home excersizes.

Which really stinks for me because before I had all my health issues spread, I

was a workout nerd. I worked out three hours a day. In the mornings, I would

to yoga, Pilates, and Tae-Bo. In the evenings, before supper, I would walk 4

miles a day, do stretches, and resistance band excersizes.

I had worked for two years to get to that point after having a torn meniscus,

having surgery and complications after surgery. It was all taken away in the

blink of an eye though. When we lived in Portugal, my husband and I were

walking our daily walk with our dog when a driver came and nearly hit me. He

literally missed me by about an inch. I felt the heat off the car.

Anyway, I landed with my bad leg locked on the side of a ditch in an attempt

to avoid getting hit. It was really all down hill from there LOL!

Love,

Becky in SD.