Wow. I’m not supposed to lift more than 20 lbs. I’ve found this somewhere between annoying and impossible. But I know that continuing to do so will more than likely land me in a wheel chair.

Ron recently made a very good observation about the difference between living a life and learning hard lessons. Or perhaps i should say living a life in spite of learning hard lessons. This is a great example of the distinction and related difficulties. It’s very hard to heed the advice when the mandates of life don’t let it happen. Being a guy makes it more difficult as we’re taught to be self-empowered and physically strong almost from the cradle. So the question is how to heed the lesson without abandoning one of the basic elements of a lifetime? Worse how to stop doing many things one knows how to do both instinctivly and effortlessly? Sure you can do it for a while, but like your pressure washing and my lifting, the activities of daily life opens the door to serious consequences when you're already injured.

BTW how do you like the ellipitical trainer? A couple of folks in the same boat as me swear by them.

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"