Thanks to my family’s current issues, I seriously need to dig out and dust off my little hand weights\/dumbbells and wipe down my stretchy exercise bands.<\/p>\n
The issue, in short, is that my brother went in for routine one-day surgery to fix some hernias, and he didn’t come out of the anesthesia well.\u00a0 He was confused, aggressive, and combative, and had to be sedated a while until he calmed down.\u00a0 He is still confused, and later today will be moved from the rehab facility to a new home-care setting.\u00a0 He will not live on his own again.<\/p>\n
I need to work on staying healthy and strong, as well as maintaining balance so minimize the risk of falls.\u00a0 It sucks being reminded I am aging and if I don’t get my shit together I could just as easily end up like my father and my brother.\u00a0 My father had a stroke and lived in an adult foster home for 7 years, mostly in a wheelchair, although his mind was mostly intact.\u00a0 My brother has\u00a0 severe cognitive issues and falls often so he’s not allowed to walk on his own; his bed and wheelchair both have alarms to alert the nursing staff that he’s not where he is meant to be.<\/p>\n
I don’t ever want to end like that.\u00a0 So, it is on me to get serious about basic exercise and mobility.\u00a0 I might not be able to control mental decline or dementia, but I can try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thanks to my family’s current issues, I seriously need to dig out and dust off my little hand weights\/dumbbells and wipe down my stretchy exercise bands. The issue, in short, is that my brother went in for routine one-day surgery to fix some hernias, and he didn’t come out of the anesthesia well.\u00a0 He was … Continue reading “Getting Myself In Order”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}