This morning was really busy. I took my son to school for his first day of summer session and then got my nails done before I went to visit my mother at the hospital. This is her eighth day there after suffering from a stroke. Thankfully, she is not paralyzed, is able to speak and her memory is pretty much as it was before the event. But her blood pressure is through the ceiling despite some medications with a pretty big kick to them. Not sure what is harder: recovering from the stroke, working through the high blood pressure or metabolizing the meds, especially while not moving around much.
So, while I am at the hospital visiting her, I have one of those defining decisions: say goodbye and get to my workout. There is not much I can do for my mom that won’t wait an hour but I can do something for myself, my family and my children: make healthy decisions so that my body is in the best possible shape to fight off whatever may come my way.
We are all going to die someday. There are plenty of people in perfect health who die unexpectedly and there are plenty of people who abuse their bodies and live to a ripe old age. I simply have no control of that. But what I do have control over is how well I take care of my body: what I put in it, the proper rest and exercise, and surrounding myself with the right people who support me and give me encouragement.
I will make the best possible effort to fill the well so that when those around me are in need of water, there will be something to give them!
