June 18: In Stow at Judy’s for my rehab.

June 17: Not too much to discuss today, so this is a super short one.

Sleep getting better by the day, so not much on that front, other than the fact that I was wearing this HR recording device with five leads all night so I had to kind of sleep on the same side all night. This was the recorder that the doc suggested I wear for 24 hours just to check out that skipping HB thing I was talking about in yesterday’s blog. They’d put it on me at the Clinic just after noon, and I was to wear it till 12:45 PM today, then send it back in this UPS envelope they gave me. 

First thing up this morning was Judy taking me up to a Clev. Clinic satellite facility in Twinsburg to get a blood draw that I couldn’t do yesterday. When we got back to Stow, my walk was up next. So since I had my meeting with my cardiologist yesterday, and what with his good graces, I decided to up my walk today to around 2 hours with a very gentle increase in speed. Did 1:50 hrs, and about 5.5 miles. Felt pretty good. Had a lot of pep at the end of the walk, so that’s coming around to. This rather than napping immediately after walking!

I think things are going to get REALLY interesting once I actually begin my PT portion of this rehab program. We did go out to dinner with Judy’s sister Vic and her husband Steve, and I had my first introduction to eating out with this health-conscious bent I need to be on. And man, there were so many things I wanted but that I “shouldn’t” eat. I mean entree after entree…no, no, no, no. Figured on the way up that I’d be on a salad, and that turned out to be the case. Good God am I going to miss the good old days of being a garbage gut! If I could go back to the old days right now with respect to my eating, I’d do it in a New York minute. 

But no, I’m going to get this one way or another. Got to make some serious changes in order to try to turn back the blockage issues that were not addressed with the surgery. THAT will be well worth the pain in the ass that this “New Age in Nutrition” is presenting me with! So I had this salad that was a bit heavy handed on the lettuce. Now I did not use that dinner as my “splurge” day of the week because Judy and I cooked up some fresh shrimp scampi yesterday, and as most of you know the shrimp is pretty high in cholesterol. So I had to kind of be good for a few days before splurging again, thus, the salad. Have a HEALTHY day!