Be Fit with Bob

When it’s broke…fix it

Things have been rolling on at a pretty good clip since June 12, 2016. That is the day I started walking. I mean really walking. I have not been sick, and went from weighing 254 to 145. My blood pressure was a scary 204/105. Now that is serious. Today it varies for 94/50 to 130/60. All this is good stuff for an 85-year-old guy.

During the last couple of years, the cord on my chainsaw got too hard to pull, so I put it in a garage sale. The starting cord on the weedwhacker got harder and harder to pull, so my wife, Ann, started doing the weed whacking. Getting up from sitting got harder and harder. I have lost much of my arm strength plus the ability to stand up after a long sitting spell.

Ninety-nine percent of me being smart is knowing what I am dumb at. That is the easy part. When it comes to my health and wellness, I only take advice from those who walk the talk. One of my main mentors is West Point educated, Ranger-trained and battle tested. He is a hero. He once remarked, “When you can’t get up from going to the toilet, the next stop is the nursing home.”

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