OT- A Long-overdue Thank You to Trucker!

Trucker, you Da Man.

I've avidly followed your getting-in-shape exploits over the months and wanted to do the same, many abortive attempts have been made and many failures have followed.

Well last month I got bronchitis.

I was pretty worried, before I went to see a doctor. (I hate going to doctors, it was two weeks of not being able to breathe before I went, ugh.) I even thought it might be something much more serious, I am a smoker after all. Well the diagnosis eased my mind but not the pains in my chest. And the meds cured the infection but it still was just plain uncomfortable to breathe. I knew I had to do something. Finally, even though I've always hated swimming I hit the local pool. Just being in the water helped, I coughed up more lung-bunnies that imagination would want to picture, lol.

I thought of how you just stuck to your guns and decided I'd actually swim, not just sit in the water hyperventilating. So I did, just a bit at first. It's been a solid month now and I'm swimming about a half hour a day.* And I freakin love it! It's really building up my upper body and reducing my flabby midsection, lol! There might actually be a human-shaped creature under here somewhere, and I'ma fixin' to find out!

There were other motivations as well, obviously, like, well... breathing. But your tales of getting positive responses from others kept running through my mind, y'all put some gas into the engine of my motivation, as it were. So thanks! I finally found something I can do to stay in shape and get into better shape, and if you can stick with it, well then so can I!

Keep on Trucking, bro! Woot woot! :D

*by swimming I do mean dog-paddling and backstroking, I ain't not Mike Phelps after all! :P