Over the last week or so, since our sudden move began, I’ve had a sudden realization, a wake up call. I’ve had the realization that over the last 6 months since I have been in the control room at my job that I’ve gotten way out of shape. Originally when I first started there I would walk anywhere from 3 to 7 miles a day. This I know because I would wear a pedometer to work every day to see how much I was doing. Now that I’m in the control room, I’m lucky if I walk 100 yards all day, besides the walk to and from my car.

Over the last week since I started moving all this furniture, I’ve continually found myself out of breath and tired. Also added to that is the fact that I had just quit smoking about 2 years ago and the excercise I was getting when I first started was taking off most of the weight I put on after I quit smoking. Now I’ve put that back on and few more pounds.

It’s now time for me to wake up and smell the coffee and renew my YMCA membership and get back to the gym. If not just for myself but for my kids, so I can be healthy enough to see them grow up. Not that I have any real control over how long I’ll live or anything but why add another risk factor for my health.

Just when I thought we were heading back to normal health wise for the family, another bug strikes! Our son has been struggling all winter with several illnesses; bronchiolitis being the worst of them. He was just starting to get his appetite back again and getting back to normal, and that’s when this nasty cold bug strikes, and it struck all of us. For me it was just the nagging itchy throat, cough, achy head, stuffed up, lightheaded bug that just won’t go away. I think my wife side-stepped the worst of it, either that or she is hiding it well.

My son however has been feeling horrible. Waking several times a night with high fever, cough, and just general crankiness. Such is life with a toddler.

I anxiously pray and await the return of good health for the family. As we await the answer to our prayers we turn to the usual barrage of medicines.