Hi everybody. Welcome to October 1st! Can you believe it? September is gone. Crazy. Anyway, this is my blog where I talk about my present.
I told you before but I used to be a competitive runner. I was pretty good. I was an NCAA runner. I held all sorts of records. I ran a relay race with 11 other guys. We ran across the United States. Every two hours I would run two miles. The race was 24 hours a day and it lasted for two weeks. The race landed us in the Guinness Book of World Records. To this day, I still don’t know why I did this. It’s probably why my brain exploded. Actually, brain surgery was a piece of cake compared to the race across the country.
Anyway, enough of that. The point I’m making is, racing was both physically and mentally brutal, but I always knew there was a finish line. In fact, the strategy of your race was based on that finish line. Now I’m in another kind of race where I have no idea where the finish line is. That’s what makes this whole thing mentally brutal. But, I figured out how to deal with this whole brain surgery thing. It’s kind of like I used to train. You live day to day, hour by hour. Training was like this, so was the rehabilitation hospital. I’ll give you an example:
Every morning at the rehab hospital, I would wake up with a schedule taped to my wheelchair. The schedule broke the day down, hour by hour. For example, this would be my schedule:
Wake up at 7 am
7-8 am - Shower / Bathroom
8-9 am - Breakfast
9-11 am - Physical Therapy
11-12 pm - Gym
12-1 pm - Lunch
1-2 pm - Nap
2-4 pm - Occupational Therapy (hands)
4-5 pm - Speech Therapy
5-6 pm - Dinner
6 pm - Bed
Lights out at 8 pm
That’s pretty much how I live my life now. Except I forgot to throw in the stripper pole. Anyway, it’s pretty brutal, but you know, if you don’t put in the work, you don’t get any results.
Getting better does not just happen if you’re sitting around. You’re never gonna get better unless you work at it all the time. Hey, you know what’s kind of fun? Look back at what you used to do. Here are some photos of what I used to do. Enjoy them, because I do.
Love and miss you guys, B. Nice
