Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Day 0

"Got reacquainted with my friend the treadmill. I've missed it, but went slow to avoid dizzyness. Walked 0.33 mile-flat surface-10 minutes."

This was written in my general blog, "Keep Dad Alive - Passionately Smiling Tortoise Musings", a random collection of thoughts shared mostly with my adult children.  After a couple of weeks on the treadmill, I decided on January 3, 2011 to create a whole separate blog to try to keep me motivated to walk.  The Life and Times of Tortoise (and Terreeeblay) was born.

I had graduated on June 28, 2010 from 33 daily radiation treatments over two months.  In response to my family doctor, Mel Carter, this entry documents how I started trying to seriously walk each day a few months later. I started and stopped multiple times along the way.  December 22, 2010 began quite a journey as I look back on it as I write this on Earth Day (April 22), 2015.  With plenty of ups and downs.  I now don't dare to quit daily walking because I know how fast I would return to the poor physical state I was in.

Thank you for sharing the journey with me.  I am excited to see where it takes me next ...

Cheerio!