Beware the downward spiral

[the bear]

The downward spiral is like a whirlpool that just simply sucks the life out of you. With any lung disease you experience shortness of breath even during moderate exercise, so you stop exerting yourself and bingo your physical condition deteriorates, your muscle strength lessens and your oxygen consumption increases.

Now you are short of breath even with mild exertion and you further avoid any extra physical activity. This leads to further deconditioning and you get very short of breath doing even minimal activity.

The cure is to start getting active again. As the Nike slogan says " Just do it". Your life depends on it.

Every journey starts with a small step. Go to our gym and check in. Every one is here for a reason and that reason is to live. Get your doctors advice before you start and do not overdo it, slow and gentle beats fast and furious here. Keep track of your own accomplishments and try to better your times, or your repetitions, or your weights and distances, as you progress.

We all need some time off from this but in my own experience any more than a couple of days off and you almost have to go back and start over again. We all have good days and bad days just try to have more good days than bad ones. Hugz, as ever, bear.

[cheryl]

Good advice Bear

[bobbioh]

Bear this is very true thank you for posting it I will show it to my Husband, Who keeps telling me to rest. I keep telling him I gotta move or I wont be worth a crap when I am better. bobbioh

[LindaNY]

Excellent advice, Bear. I know from personal experience just how true this is.