A Fitness Bug

Going from Fit to Ill - Part 1

Ever since high school, I engaged in some type of exercise routine. Started out with yoga and joined Elaine Powers shortly after graduation. (that dated myself didn’t it) I avidly worked out 3-4x a week for eons.

Actually until Elaine Powers closed it doors. Where upon I bought a work bench for strength training and began walking. Soon worked my way to power walking 3-4x a week, doing 5 miles in an hour.

Even the demands from my new business couldn’t keep me from those walks.

But something happened, while my business success climbed, my health declined.

By the third year of my business, all my energy disappeared. I could barely get out of bed. All my joints ached, barely walk, sit or move. Chronically getting ill and gained weight very fast, even when I could still work out.

One morning while getting ready to take my daughter to school, I experienced an extreme shooting pain through my back and down my legs. I collapsed on the floor unable to move. A very frighten Allyce called her dad at work.

He came home immediately and couldn’t get me off the floor. Soon an ambulance whisked me away to the hospital.

Thus began a battery of test to figure out what happened.