Ugh. I woke up on Friday morning to discover that I had somehow sprained or strained something in my sleep. I wasn’t sure how but all I knew was that I was in pain and could barely walk, sit, stand OR lay down comfortably. This continued all weekend and made it very, very difficult to do anything.
Scarily, it also made it nearly impossible to properly care for The Little Empress who is a very mobile, climbing toddler. Luckily, The Hubster ™ was home along with my sister and a guest so I did have some help. Still, being rendered temporarily immobile was my worst nightmare come true.
Having struggled with my weight for years and knowing that health problems are on the horizon if not already here, I’ve always worried about my ability to keep up with an increasingly mobile, energetic toddler. As she’s learned to walk, run and climb, I’ve found myself hard pressed to keep up with her. I am tired, almost exhausted, much of the time. Sometimes it is hard to run after her.
But being practically immobile for much of the weekend was a very harsh wakeup call. I could barely move to help her get what she wanted or needed, much less to pick her up or do things with her. I could barely kneel down to change her diaper and there were more than a few times this weekend that I’ve seen her climb into a potentially dangerous situation and I could barely stop her.
While I don’t necessarily know that whatever I sprained was caused by my being overweight, I know that being overweight certainly didn’t help. I feel unhealthy and I worry about the health problems I’ll face. I know I need to get healthy so I can continue to be The Little Empress’ protector, to keep her safe from harm and play with her all the time. I couldn’t do that this weekend and that hurt so badly. I need to get healthy so it won’t happen again.
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