Well.... I'm close to rock bottom. I could use some encouragement (not advice).
THE SITUATION: Since getting onto the increased dosage of the one heart/BP med that worked-- I was getting BPS of over 200/120-- I'm just so cold all he time that I can't stand the beloved pool. It IS the warmest pool in town... And even the hot tub is a problem there, because the women's shower is just one stall, for one person-- because once I get out, if that shower is taken, I am SOL and freezing.
I do not mean unpleasantly cold. I mean the kind of cold that makes me weep in misery and spend hours getting warm again.
And I have to take that medication, period.
Anyway, because it lowers HR so much and I can't walk across a room without feeling like it's a major aerobic effort requiring a stop-exercise rest (according to the hitherto-reliable Perceived Exertion Scale), my activity level and thus my muscles (and metabolism) are shot. So much so that when I pull a muscle I cannot rehab it on land. The last month has been a descending scale of function within an ascending scale of pain.
An old HS chum is in a similar fix-- broke a thighbone and can't rehab it on land. But she has no pool, and WE DO, TBTG and our Bishop's generous partnership.
So it's off to the hot tub after a big lunch for very, VERY slow stretches and joint rehab. By July 1 I should also be starting into the cold pool for short stints of deeper water work. And taking a thermos of hot water... and watching for times the shower is free and....... or hoping for hot days when I can just come outside, get in the hot car, and drive home wet to OUR shower.
And weeping, but not misery-weeping. Overcoming-type weeping. And don't nobody give me any shit over it!