CHANGE

I guess the old adage is: The more things change, the more things stay the same.

So this is the theme of to night’s blog.

First one is going to be about the physical. For example getting my pain pills every two hours, getting the tummy meds every 8 hours and the sleeping pill at ten o’clock, and the pill to prevent cramps every 8 hours, and the injection every night in my tummy to prevent blood clots. The things we really take for granted such as breathing changes, as I mentioned previously I have a UTI which I am taking an anti biotic for, but they also think I may have a chest infection, and I have had 2 x rays but I have heard nothing of the results.  The worst night was Thursday night.  When my nose dried up and my nostrils closed a bit and it was difficult to breath. The other problem with breathing is I don’t have a lot of lung capacity, so it is difficult to clear my airways.  So Thursday night I keep waking up feeling like I was suffocating but, I managed to make it through the night.  Having them turn me, right, left and on my back seems to help out with my breathing as well.  The other interesting thing is a fever, I had one as high as 38 degrees, and of course we all know that Tylenol brings a fever down, two extra strength Tylenol. What I didn’t know about Tylenol is …it makes you sweat. So while my temperature is dropping poor Darcy is mopping up buckets of sweat…as some of you know i have very fairly large sweat glands. The fever and the UTI and the lung infection seem to be under control with the antibiotics I am taking twice a day. My fever hasn’t come back.

The other change I would like to talk about is I am not really used to all of you out there saying such great and nice things about me….which is greatly appreciated and it does help.  I don’t want to become like the pro athlete who starts reading and believing his own press clippings and turns into a complete jerk. There has been mention that I am mentally tough tenacious, hardworking, have percervierence, positive outlook, determination, desire to succeed but, that’s really not me. That has been a group effort by a lot of people. From working out with Brantford harlequin’s rugby football club, distance running with marc banning and sensei john and many of my training partners, my karate workouts, all assisted in creating what ever mental toughness I supposedly have.  I learned it from the people around me because they kept going  so I had to, there were many many times I wanted to stop but the energy provided by my training partners kept me going. More examples of this are, training for a marathon, when I am not really a long distance runner, training with renchi and sensei john was the motivation to keep going.  There are other examples, weight lifting with my friends on the rugby club, reached maximum weight lifts because they were there. Here is another example I was an absolutely terrible swimmer when I took up triathlons , still am…  I joined the tillsonburg masters swim club which was a fantastic group of people, with an exceptional young coach, who wanted us old farts to succeed. Mention should go to Vern Woodward, a great swimmer and was my role model, Who made me work very hard at swimming, given that support  I was eventually able to swim 4 km and compete in ironman triathlons.  All the other accolades are fantastic and great to hear however, Darcy’s explanation is, you’re excessive at everything you do. The bottom line here is I really need all you guys out there and just knowing that you are there is an incredible force to keep me going. Oh yes, Kelly Viennenue( it was nice to see keith too)  post yesterday about Darcy is absolutely true, I don’t know where she musters the strength to do what she is doing and put up with my constant giving of directions. Oh ya Meghan is pretty good too, Kelly it’s your turn soon.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU, I CAN’T DO IT WITH OUT YOU!!!

Note if this rambles a bit it could be from the 2 mg of oxy cotton that I took at 6 o’oclock