This year I have a couple of goals I’m trying to get to. These new goals require a few new habits. I’m still in a position where work is out of the question so it gives me a certain amount of time. However a reduced capacity for income means that I have to be careful …
I’ve almost completed a rough outline of all the 20 Lessons I Learned From Cancer. In their final form they might not resemble anything at all like what I’ve written here but I’ve been busy trying to type them all out and have some thought behind why each lesson came to me when it did. …
I’m one hundred sixteen days post transplant. While I was in the hospital I attempted a few band workouts and some such but I was pretty much just reduced to walking. It was about as much as I could do. Upon getting home, I started to get back into my home gym and move a …
1: Don’t be afraid of death Cancer. I was diagnosed with leukemia on December 11th, 2020. Without knowing too many details, right off the top I was thinking I was going to die. We’ve all heard the survival rates of cancer. We all know someone close to us that has died from it. It is …
2: Have patience The luxuries we have today lend our current society to have the idea that we all wanted everything yesterday. The internet has given us instant access to information. With our smart phones we have the world at our fingertips. At the tap of a button we can ask Siri or Alexa any …
4. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional One of my favorite sayings from when I did personal training, “pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” The simple idea was that pain was something that was going to happen. It didn’t have to be tremendous amounts of pain, but instead just enough to let you know …
Exercise I’ve been fortunate that I have been doing some type of physical activity for over 20 years. It’s second nature to me at this point. This put me in a better position going into the cancer treatment. Having already developed the base for exercise, the positive benefits definitely helped get me through some of …
# 7 Learn about your disease I was laying on my back in an older somewhat rickety hospital bed. I had just had my first bone marrow biopsy and felt pretty overwhelmed. I do have to admit I did have some feelings of pride and accomplishment when the nurse practitioner that had done the biopsy …
Today I was going into the clinic to have my EVUSHELD covid shot. Being still relatively immuno-compromised any extra layer of protection can help. EVUSHELD is a relatively new drug and is only been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) because currently it is not FDA approved. I figured with all the hell I’ve been through, …
We’ve all been told that there is no such thing as a stupid question. Despite hearing it mutliple times over the course of our life, there’s always still questions we are hesitant to ask for fear of someone thinking we’re stupid. As a personal trainer I always tried to get clients to ask every question. …
