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State of the Cougar - May/June
4 years ago
Well, went on vacation with the wife to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. We had some fun, but alot more pain and came home a day early. We agree this was a pain-cation instead of a vacation.
I developed blisters on my feet, LARGE ones, over 3 inches across, that burst and bleed like hell (my sock was entirely red). Was immediately on the phone with my doctor and sending him photos. He gave us instructions and had me send updates. After some scampering around he found the supplies we needed to do the bandaging and hopefully hold infection at bay. We decided to cut our vacation short and come home a day early cause if things went bad and I got an infection would rather be home then abroad when it happened. So we drove through the night and are now home.
Really tired of shit happening to my feet. I did everything the doctor said, and these aren't your normal blisters, they cover damn near the entire of the ball of my feet. I asked my doctor why this happened, he said I'm a big guy with big feet and it's alot of stress of my legs/feet. My left leg the arthritis is bad enough from trying to counter the injuries to my right foot that I can do little more than walk. Standing up from a couch or other low seat is hard.
I just want to be normal, but being 6'9" means nothing is normal for me. My wife says I age in giant years... If you every wanted to be as big as me, trust me it ain't worth it. I would gladly be short just to avoid the problems I've had for being so big.
I'm trying to stay upbeat and not let this depress me, but it's hard. I just don't know what to do some days.
I developed blisters on my feet, LARGE ones, over 3 inches across, that burst and bleed like hell (my sock was entirely red). Was immediately on the phone with my doctor and sending him photos. He gave us instructions and had me send updates. After some scampering around he found the supplies we needed to do the bandaging and hopefully hold infection at bay. We decided to cut our vacation short and come home a day early cause if things went bad and I got an infection would rather be home then abroad when it happened. So we drove through the night and are now home.
Really tired of shit happening to my feet. I did everything the doctor said, and these aren't your normal blisters, they cover damn near the entire of the ball of my feet. I asked my doctor why this happened, he said I'm a big guy with big feet and it's alot of stress of my legs/feet. My left leg the arthritis is bad enough from trying to counter the injuries to my right foot that I can do little more than walk. Standing up from a couch or other low seat is hard.
I just want to be normal, but being 6'9" means nothing is normal for me. My wife says I age in giant years... If you every wanted to be as big as me, trust me it ain't worth it. I would gladly be short just to avoid the problems I've had for being so big.
I'm trying to stay upbeat and not let this depress me, but it's hard. I just don't know what to do some days.
Congrats on being together for 10 years, here's to decades more.
Thanks, let's hope I live that long.
Now I have a mental image of a 'lion tamer' panda holding a chair and whip against germs/infection.
Heh, I needed that mental image.
I hope your feet heal soon and just as importantly that you can figure out what caused the problems and a way to avoid it happening again.
The doctor says I'm just a BIG guy with big feet. Losing some weight might help, I dunno. Going to talk to my doctor about further options.
Too bad you can't go to Mars or somewhere else with lighter gravity, that would probably help a lot.
Since you're stuck on a planet with 1g gravity it looks like you might just have to 'bite the bullet' and loose weight until you're rail thin, or at least are down to something like 8% body fat. That sounds challenging but I'm sure you can do it if you're dedicated and there are plenty of programs and groups to help. If you decide to go that route let me know if you want encouragement or anything.
Well sounds like you have a target (320) and maybe an end goal of something under 300.
I could say hop to it but your feet would probably 'splode if you hopped, so I'll have to find another expression about getting started. That's probably all for the best anyway, otherwise I might get complaints from the rabbits and 'roos about the expressions I'm using.
I guess 320 is your target now and see if you can get that tank size frame of yours lighter. Take care of yourself, big guy. Please.
280 is my ultimate goal. Lighter than that and I face other issues.