Just Another Blog
Thursday, May 03, 2007
 
Health

I am so ready to be over this snotty cold. Tomorrow just might be the day I'm all well.

I walked two miles without stopping tonight. I haven't done that since August. I was in a bunch on pain at about the half-way point, and I felt an odd, new sensation in my knee on the downhill part just beyond that half-way point, but all in all it went well. I'm pretty sore and shaky right now, but there's not too much residual pain.

The big steps haven't been nearly the cure all I hoped, but they are making a difference. I'm still making progress but needing to really concentrate to maintain my gait, posture, stride, etc. Having spent the past week sick I haven't been doing any walking outside of work, so there's still some muscle memory training to accomplish. Jib and Kepper, the husky and the black dog, stand to benefit from my need to walk while I dogsit for my brother this weekend.

I'm trying to make sure I get enough sun. "Anyone practising sun avoidance has traded the benefit of a reduced risk of skin cancer — which is easy to detect and treat and seldom fatal — for an increased risk of the scary, high-body-count cancers, such as breast, prostate and colon, that appear linked to vitamin D shortages."