Saving my life
What can I say: having a TIA changes your life. In case you don't know it, a TIA is a mini-stroke. The doctor said I had one a few weeks ago. Another doctor said it could have been a migrane. Either way, it changes your life because no matter what, you've got to accept that it may have been a TIA and change the way you live your life. So now I'm revisiting my old goal to get fit.
The 50s is when everything changes. That's what I learned when I was in nursing school. In other words, until you reach your 50s you may walk around thinking that you're perfectly healthy. You could be two hundred pounds overweight and get away with it. But suddenly you hit 50 and the high blood pressure, the heart attacks, the strokes, well, it all comes looking for you because of the years of abuse you've put your body through. That's where I am. I've abused my body with sugar and other junk for 54 years. A slim child and young adult, I quickly gained weight in my mid-thirties and just couldn't take it off. So, now the TIA.
A TIA can lead to a full-blown stroke within 3 months. That's what the medical literature says and that's what my cousin says. He had a TIA and three months later a stroke.
But he's different from me. He didn't change his life style. He continued to eat junk and not exercise. But me... well, I've added a fresh food delivery program called Ediets and I exercise. I'm taking blood presure medication too--something I wasn't doing when the attack occured.
I'm a survivor who knows that I must change to do so. I'm watching my stress level too, avoiding things that make me worry, watching videos of Hawaii on television instead of the news cast. I'm taking time to smell the roses so, I won't be a statistic and end up with a stroke. And for the times when I feel weak, when that strawberry shortcake calls out to me--I remember how it felt for my entire left side to go numb. I remember the look in my father's eyes and the fear in my step-daughter's voice. And I say, it's not worth it and have an apple instead.
The 50s is when everything changes. That's what I learned when I was in nursing school. In other words, until you reach your 50s you may walk around thinking that you're perfectly healthy. You could be two hundred pounds overweight and get away with it. But suddenly you hit 50 and the high blood pressure, the heart attacks, the strokes, well, it all comes looking for you because of the years of abuse you've put your body through. That's where I am. I've abused my body with sugar and other junk for 54 years. A slim child and young adult, I quickly gained weight in my mid-thirties and just couldn't take it off. So, now the TIA.
A TIA can lead to a full-blown stroke within 3 months. That's what the medical literature says and that's what my cousin says. He had a TIA and three months later a stroke.
But he's different from me. He didn't change his life style. He continued to eat junk and not exercise. But me... well, I've added a fresh food delivery program called Ediets and I exercise. I'm taking blood presure medication too--something I wasn't doing when the attack occured.
I'm a survivor who knows that I must change to do so. I'm watching my stress level too, avoiding things that make me worry, watching videos of Hawaii on television instead of the news cast. I'm taking time to smell the roses so, I won't be a statistic and end up with a stroke. And for the times when I feel weak, when that strawberry shortcake calls out to me--I remember how it felt for my entire left side to go numb. I remember the look in my father's eyes and the fear in my step-daughter's voice. And I say, it's not worth it and have an apple instead.
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