BS: Lifting Weights

Subject: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 04:21 PM

There is no weariness as welcome as that which comes from release.
I read it in here all the time. This afternoon, after three weeks of concern that my wife had something seriously wrong with her spinal column, we got news that the pain that nearly crippled her for the last three weeks will pass, and it is from a muscle pull, and nothing more serious. She's walking well enough again so that I am taking her out for supper, to celebrate.

When your heart is heavy from concern for yourself, or someone you love, and the weight is lifted, it is such a wonderful, joyful feeling! What a way to get weary!!!!!!! I'll take it over worry, any day.

Maybe this thread can just float here for awhile for people to share the joy they've felt when a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 04:57 PM

Unfortunately I'm in the weight sitting on your shoulders period right now. My wife has been passing out without any particular cause to be found. Testing continues.

I am sincerely glad to hear that yours have lifted and I hope to join in on the celebration. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Peace
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 05:05 PM

I
m happy for you Jerry, and worried for you Chief C. I'll pray things improve real soo: like right now. Bless you both (and your wives).

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: pdq
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 05:06 PM

Start with light weights and use many repetitions. Work up to heavier weights later.

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Rasener
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 05:23 PM

Five and a half years ago, I was diagnosed with Cancer of the bladder. It was devastating. I went through all the treatment, worried stiff. In the middle of December 1998 my Urorogist announced that I was clear. I cried buckets. I was so happy. So Jerry I know what you mean.
Les

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 05:32 PM

Jerry, I can certainly relate to the concept of weights being lifted. This wasn't a health issue (although I've had a few of those), but it kept my wife Barbara and me under a pall for several years. We didn't fully realize how much tension we were under until the situation was resolved. I can't describe the feeling of immense relief we felt. In fact, I get a bit choked up a bit just thinking about it.

A week or two after our problem dissolved and we suddenly decompressed, someone started a thread on the subject we have been dealing with. I felt our experience could act as a cautionary tale should someone else find themselves in a similar situation. My post was a long one and runs pretty close to 2,000 words, so I won't re-post it here, I'll link to it in the previous thread.

The whole gory tale.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 06:28 PM

oh, my...such relief to have weights lifted! I understand Jerry's, because I have a tiny bone spur on my 3rd cervical vertebrae, which had caused serious pain & numbness on my arms...I had cortisone injection which 'seem' to have controlled it, so i can do my work...but the big one was when we got a call from Johns Hopkins hospital 7½ yeas ago saying that they had a donor heart for Rita after she had spent months lying in bed....1995 was the year I did nothing but cope.

I'm so glad the prognosis is good, Jerry... having met her, I know how she would hate to be 'down' instead of doing things.

And, wow, Don....that's quite a story! Like coming out of a long, tedious dream, I'd bet! Live long and enjoy the new space!

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 06:31 PM

Lift with the legs, not the back.

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 10:57 PM

Hey, Don:

I just finished reading your horror story. It sounded frigtheningly familiar. Years ago, I read that the three most stressful experiences in life are divorce, losing a parent and moving. (I think the moving must have included selling a Co-op) I've lived in two co-ops, and selling both of them was a nightmare... not as lengthy as yours, but enough that I wouldn't buy a co-op for $.39.

When we finally sold my wife's co-op, five and a half years ago, we'd gone through legal problems of our own, even though we had the money.
When we finally signed all the papers at the lawyer's office (despite the sellers not being there because of another snafu,) we breathed an enormous sigh of relief and drove up to our new home. We finally owned it, and we had sold the co-op. The only problem was that the seller hadn't left the keys to the house in the lock box, and our realtor didn't have any keys, so we couldn't get in to our own home.
No where near the horror story you told, but it sure aged me prematurely.

Sometimes, when you go through something like that, it takes a couple of days for it to become real, after it's over.

Glad you story had a happy ending. Didn't much like the beginning and the middle, though.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Mar 04 - 11:06 PM

Don, that is indeed a nightmare. I'm glad things worked out for you and your wife. Man, oh man!

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 08:11 AM

Hey, Chief:

The hardest part is when they can't figure out what the problem is. That leaves your mind at play to imagine the worst possible scenario. Thank God, the problem usually turns out to be far less serious than it seems. My first wife had periods when she would black out, just walking across a room. It was very frightening, and dangerous. It happened three or four times over a period of six months or so, and then stopped. It never happened to her again, and the Doctors neveer knew what caused it in the first place. That was over 30 years ago.

We'll keep you and your wife in prayer and wait for the good news.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 02:11 AM

A long time ago I thought I had cancer, and my doctor thought I had cancer. I did some research on colon cancer hoping to find something to cheer myself up, and it had my symptoms down exactly and I felt like I'd been punched in the pit of my stomach. And I had three little girls.

Then I found out I didn't have it, and I went into a restroom and all the little tiles on the floor were beautiful.

clint

Subject: RE: BS: Lifting Weights
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 12 Mar 04 - 11:49 AM

That's beautiful, Clint: When you can find beauty in tile floors, you know your life is good!

Jerry