"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!