I'm back.............

Well...............what can I say! holy crap I haven't been here in a while....
well since last May I've many ups and many downs......just a month and a half after my last post a good friend of mine that I had just reconnected with died suddenly of a massive heart attack at the tender age of 44yrs old. Just a week prior I had brought her hiking with me when she remembered that the chapel cut into the mountain was the place her grand mother used to bring her. She was so excited and couldn't wait to bring her daughter there...that would never happen....she passed away a week later.

Since then....I suffered from heart issues...incredible pain which I had checked..turns out I have a herniated atrium of the heart...nothing dangerous LOL just stay stress free...ya right..he said that with a grin...no kidding..I live with three guys... there's no such thing as stress free in a frathouse! Also I am having issues with scar tissue wrapping around my intestines. Quite painful and restrictive to say the least...my best friend has become an enema! lol never thought i'd look forward to it!! Wouldn't even consider it with boyfriends lol!!!!

One thing I haven't lost, luckily, is my sense of humor...yes granted, warped at times but hey..that's what keeps me going!

On the upside I reconnected with my cousin Brigitte at the suggestion of my mother and we've traveled twice to Cuba and are going for our third trip this February! We are both Cuba Junkies so taking it all in is easy for us...the language, the culture, the music and so on :) (this is where I should insert a wink wink! ) It's just party time all the time. I've never met such stress free, happy going, fun loving people in my life! In my next life I'm so coming back as a Cuban! :)

On the exercise front, well I had to cut it down a bit due to the scar tissue, but walking is still a must and 5 k once or twice a day is doable and feels great! I am doing some muscle building for the upper and lower arms, shoulders and neck. The torso I basically have to leave alone for now. I so miss Zumba and Yoga. I can do some yoga but no inversions - my favorite! I can do headstands for quite a long time but not now....the last time I did one it felt like a bowling ball was coming down on me and it was my intestines all balled up and falling forwards! that escapade ended with a quick trip to emergency for the longest enema I've ever had! feeling the intestines unkink like a garden hose was surreal!

July 22 is Doctor's appointment so until then I'm on down time exercising....here's to hoping that they can fix this shite and get me back on track!!! nothing beats jogging on a beach in Cuba!

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