Hooray! Big movement forward for me! Mom and I signed up for Water Aerobics two days a week at the Gahanna YMCA. We started today. It was fabulous just moving in the pool--I've been damn near totally sedentary for a year and finally, finally I am moving!
Dr. Levy is going to be so happy. He's been after me to exercise for months on end. I just had to build up to it. Well, the tip of the iceberg was my husband jokingly calling me a pork cutlet; it didn't necessarily upset me, but it did push me into action to call Mom, who located the Y and the classes. A day later, we were enrolled (Mom works quickly).
So I now have my Y classes on Wednesday and Friday mornings. Mondays I have my Ceramics class in the afternoon from 1-4 pm. Thursdays I have talk therapy from 12:30-2 then I get a massage at 3:30. Listen, I gotta tell you: massage therapy has helped me hold it together during this past year. I got a great deal going with my mom's masseuse -- she massages me for 90 minutes for $50. That's $200 a month I spend for sanity. It's a must-do and I budget accordingly.
Things are slowly starting to come back into line. I'll probably never work in an office again, but I'm building back up a full life with interesting things in it. Oh--my anxiety did end up getting much, much worse. Dr. Levy raised my Gabapentin (generic Neurontin) and it cut my anxiety right down. I actually was a little over-medicated, so he tweaked it a tad downward. I'm happy to report I'm anxiety-free, if that's possible...I feel relaxed and calm. Yay.
