I am not a gym bunny but throughout the years I have sashayed
between fat and fit (it’s true .... look at my pictures) but this recent
enforced down time is no fun at all. I don’t want to watch TV, I couldn’t read,
and I ached incessantly (not from any pleasurable activity ... that’s another
story all together). Therefore I’m complaining about this time I have to spend
sitting and lying about.
I don’t want to run anywhere either, but I’d like to walk
around again without feeling like I need a stick to hold my jelly-like legs up
(despite my best efforts I have jelly thighs legs for two reasons: lack of focussed
exercise and this stupid bug!)
Years ago, when trying on some clothes in the changing room,
a niece turned to me and said, in all innocence,
“Aunt, I don’t know why you
don’t like swimming. You could use your legs as floats!” My other sister fell
about laughing but even that wasn’t enough to get me doing the necessary leg lifts.
So, here I sit (or lie) with my jelly thighs wishing I could
walk without the fever moving my head around like I’m in a snow globe, or the
wobble that has inhabited my frame attempting to push my body in different
directions to the ones my mind wants to go. I feel as if I’ve got sea-legs
without the journey anywhere.
All I can realistically do is to follow the Doctor’s
instruction and sit still for hours each day.
I wonder how couch potatoes manage it all the time?
Maybe I just can’t hack it anymore because I have a sofa and
not a couch. Just wondering ...
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