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Two months

It has been a little more than two months since I collapsed due to chronic pulmonary embolisms.  Snce then, I feel a whole lot better.  It really puts everything in your life in perspective.  If you don’t have your health, nothing else really matters.  The ability to breath again has improved my daily life.  I can smell again.  I can walk up stairs without loosing my breath.  I can walk a 5K at lunch time, and all I feel afterwards is a little sweaty.  In addition, my hands are still steady, making watch repairs (a hobby of mine) a whole lot easier.  All I can say is, if you have shaky hands, fatigue, and a hard spot on your leg, go to an ER, now.

In addition to getting my lungs fixed and preventing a re-occurrence, I am also loosing weight.  If you have ever tried, the hardest part is the mental aspect.  Adjusting what you think is a proper portion.  Knowing when you are full and not really hungry anymore.  Dealing with the occasional hunger.  Don’t be fooled.  If you are dieting to loose weight, you will get hungry.  You also need to get in the mental habit of exercising a lot more.  They say, when it comes to diet and exercise, emphasize the exercise.  It helps improve your health and boost your resting metabolism (due to more muscle mass).  It is a hard road ahead, but at least it is better than collapsing for no apparent reason.  With the new lungs, exercise is so much easier.

Another thing I realized, I really miss updating my website.  I am not promising daily updates, but I will at least try to keep the site more up to date with opinions and what is going on in the world of Dave.

 

Posted by on August 30, 2011 in Family, General Comments

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Hacked, well, at least used a little bit

As you can see, things look different.  Someone in Russia thought it would be cute to use a vulnerability in WordPress to make my site a spam generator.  SO, now we are on Palm.cyberphreak.com.  It was supposed to be dedicated to palm software, but life is too busy for that.  So, it will take me a little while to get things back to normal, but, for now, enjoy.

 

Posted by on August 29, 2011 in General Comments

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DOUGLAS G. GROW

Douglas G. Grow, beloved husband of Orie; loving father of Nicole; dear brother of Judy Grow; fond uncle of Tiffany (David) Nelson and great-uncle of Glenn. Funeral Services Saturday Aug. 13 at 11 a.m. at Memory Gardens Cemetery, 2501 E. Euclid- Arlington Heights. Memorials to American Cancer Society appreciated. Colonial-Wojciechowski Funeral Home of Niles is entrusted with arrangements. Info: 847-581-0536 orwww.colonialfuneral.com
This is a copy of the obiturary from the Chicago Tribune.  Since they will take the guestbook away after a year, I decided to make a copy of it here.  Douglas was my wife’s uncle.  Please feel free to leave any comment/condolences via the comment function.  I will not charge for such a simple service like the Tribune does after a year.  He was a good man, who was genuinely nice to be around.  He shall be missed.
 

Posted by on August 14, 2011 in Uncategorized

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