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I’m tryin’ t’ get this on the medical page; we’ll see…

As I said in my last post, I was feelin’ th’ need for some kind of a routine.  There was just too much stuff fallin’ thru th’ cracks.  And it was important stuff; I was just “too busy” to keep proper care of it all.

So this mornin’, I fell into th’ “new” routine, and it made for a much more productive day.  I got my shop time in early and followed it w/some time on th’ Sta. Bike.  I’d been doin’ 2 1/2 min. and promised my self I’d up it to 3 this week.  I managed 3 1/2 min. before I started gettin’ outta breath.  Improvement!  Then upstairs and 35 situps and back to the bedroom for the leg-work.  And I had it all done by ten AM.

The rest of th’ day was taken up w/computer stuff, a fistful o’ downloads and such.  And here we sit!

If I can continue this way, I really think it’ll hasten my recovery.  Better attention to the exercise stuff HAS to help, and the establishment of a routine was all I could think of to ensure it all got done.

I’d tried once before to get a routine goin, but that was around th’ time I was also tryin’ Chantix to quit smokin’.  THAT met w/only limited success.  I no longer smoke cigarettes; but I smoke a pipe now.  That Chantix just kicked my butt!  I’m not kidding one little bit when I tell you suicide was VERY much on my mind as a perfectly reasonable option.  I was diagnosed way back as a depressive, and the Chantix made that even worse.  I’m fortunate in that I knew, intellectually, that it was just the drug talkin’.  But I FELT so BAD!  I eventually, after 4 weeks or so, got to the point where the cure was worse than the disease and gave it up.  But I still have my pipe.

I’m goin’ thru 2 pouches o’ tobacco a week, an ounce and a half ea.  ‘Tain’t SO bad…  ‘Beats a pack a day, anyway.  And it’ll be easier t’ quit that than cig’s (I think).

So that’s my day w/th’ new routine.  Lets see how well it continues.

RD

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Tags: Chantix, exercises, new routine, pipe smoking, recovery

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