If you get that title reference, ypu are old but at least alittle bit fun. I talk about life grenades going off all the time in our lives. Lately, the life funk has been thicker then usual. Nothing nobody else does not face but sometimes the waves keep slapping you right on the beak, brah! Well, yesterday it was my parents turn.
The wife spent the morning with her mom and her endocrinologist about her diabetes issues. Goal was to help her Mom find better ways to deal with the diabetes and sort of just plain recognize the havoc it wreaks on the body. She has just not really come to terms with it and how life threatening it can be.She sees it more of a curse then for what it is and choices made in life. It would be like me saying I did not deserve to get throat cancer two years ago from my poor choices and the HPV that caused my cancer. Anyhow, the wife has spent extensive amount of time on this and thyroid involvement. Long story short, it did not go as planned and the Doctor was not much help and reinforced the , "It's not your fault you got diabetes." This was the prelude to the final act for the day.
Around five pm, I receive a text from my Dad that my Mother's neck surgery went well but she is in the ICU and recovering and may get released tommorrow if she blood pressure does not drop. Ok, how would you interpret this? Holy shit, what happened? How fast can I get there? Right? I immediately freak and send Sue the text and she is , "we gotta get over there, now! I text him and say we are on the way. He calls me back right away and starts talking about it. I say, "what happened? "
Two years ago, right after my cancer diagnosis, they operated on the left side of my mother's neck to remove some plaque in the main arteries. It was a bit tough on her and they did not quite do some things right on her recovery. If you remember, she was still doped up after surgery when we saw her and immediately looked at me and said,"What is that lump on your neck?" This was from across the room and it was not that big and she did not know I had cancer.
So after a couple of details, Dad tells me this was planned two or three weeks ago! What?! Why didn't anyone tell us? We would have been there when she went in and made plans in general. His answer was, "Well , usually your Mother handles all the calls" I said, " Could you have called me earlier? He then gives me the hours we can visit. It is 830pm before we can see her. So we go eat and kill some time at the hospital. At 830, we go back and wake her up and she is coherent and in a good mood. Much different then the last time. After a bit, it comes out the doctor told her about six months ago that they were setting up the surgery. The surgery went well and this time they cleaned out the right side of her neck.
My parents are old school and won't tell anyone or ask for help until it has already happened and it is something they absolutely can't handle on their own. We both were jacked on adrenaline after those intial texts and did not come down till we got home. They both seemed to think it was no big deal but you never know what is going to happen. My mother did throw it back on me that I did not tell them about my four surgeries or throat cancer so I get it honestly.
She went home two days later and we dropped by to see them. She was still in good spirits and moving around like nothing had happened. She went out ot the mail box and refused to let Sue help her. The shoes are on the other feet now if you know what I mean and all those years ago when we rolled with little or no concern while they worried about us are now coming due. As I said, parents just don't understand. Ha
7/29
Regular sled drag 25mins with 5 min walk
7/28
Activations
Reverse hypers 4 pre, 4 post
Trap bar pulls 3 bills x3,5,7,8,10,12,15,20,
No cardio work
7/27
Activations with tim tam and boomstick
Speed press with small fat bar and chains 3x5-1 chain, 3x5 2 chain, 3x5 3 chains
Close grip with 3 pads 3x5
7/26
Light Actiavtions
3 laps regular sled drag. Still focused on the 20 to 25 mins daily. body is less cranky today.
7/25
Body was really stove up today so spent about a hour doing tim tam, boomstick and BT work
Reverse Hyper 4sets pre, 2 sets post
Did some squats with our new old man keep my hips in light briefs prototypes. We used to use the Frantz Power Pants back in the day. They were lighter then briefs today and as I tell the wife, more forgiving on the fitting part. No points were earned with that comment by the way. These are even more forgiving but just enough for some support and holding your shit in. So far, testing is good, really good. Since my hip has been pissed, I haven't done much on it squat wise and this morning was the first time free. Did alot of reps
285 8x5 reps,235x2x20 reps, 145x50 reps
One short lap with the light prowler and a 25lb. One full lap walk after.