Bike rides
Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 9:31PM Now that the whole family is chipping in to make daddy healthy again, we have a routine. Mom drives the kids to some local park while daddy gets to bike to the same park, spend some time there and bike back. If daddy is too tired, they just throw the bike in the van and everyone drives back.
We did this four times in the last seven days. While most of the parks are only 1.3-2.5 miles away, it was still an ordeal for the biker since he was so badly out of shape and was still on steroids. (there was an advice from the doctor to not have any heavy exercise till the end of the dose)!
Now that the tablets are all over, today the family decided to go from Cupertino to Sunnyvale to visit Ortega park. Daddy made it in one piece after driving almost 8 miles.
On the one hand it is a crying shame, that a guy who, just six years ago, had a wolf stomach, and was athletic enough to win dance competitions, is now declaring that he is happy enough to be able to bike eight miles on local roads. This is just a start! Hope is that some day, this post will be looked back and laughed at, when the eight mile drive is a breeze.
On the other hand, this post is a reminder to all those who in the name of other priorities, forget to exercise, then blame it on kids, work, lack of time, stress or whatever other creative reasons they can come up with, only to realize late in the game that they only have themselves to blame for their poor health!
Don't wait for the clouds to open and an "Asariri"(oracle, voice from heaven) to come and tell you to start exercising again! It is really not worth the wait.
The side effects of the drugs have all been right on, when it comes to what the pamplet said. Euphoria, insomnia, rage, weird hair growth, depression, hyperactivity, etc. etc. The whole gamut of what one can put a family through, in the name of a cure! San and the girls were prepped though, for all the side effects, and being all girls, they helped cope with daddy's side effects by doing more of what they do with daddy.. Ignore him!
The little one says "Daddy, you are sleepy because you ate Manduru?". She doesn't know how to say marundhu(Tamizh for medicine), and instead says Manduru.
The girls love to pass daddy in the van as he is on his bike and scream "come on daddy, catch up" or "faster daddy, faster".
All said and done, we are all thrilled. The wheezing is gone and the Diamondback Insight simply rocks!!
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Reader Comments (10)
Whew!! Daddy's really sweating it out!!!! All the best for the weight reduction spree!!!
Awww.. Excellent, keep up the good work.
love how L.O says marandu :D
Excercise & build muscle - will come in handy when girls go to college and you have to move lots of really heavy stuff. ;)
deepa, weight reduce panna not much left.. no stamina..
:)
sivajini, she is now taking Tamlish to new levels..
she might actually qualify to edit the worlds first Tamlish dictionary.
mg, so that is the secret of Ralph's muscles?
:)
there was no IKEA when we were in college.. there is IKEA now. will buy the girls all lightweight bulky looking stuff.. ha ha ha
Tamilish? I thought it was Tanglish, well at least that's what I've been calling it for all these years. Suttu-fied, pirattu-fied etc. :D
Thats great news. You are cutting down on potatoes and now biking long !
That wolf stomach is within you !!! Literally too !
And it sure does help to have three girls cheering you in a car ! It sure does !
With such a lovely cheering squad I'm sure you'll wheel right back to health. Sorry to hear about all the bereavements- I'm catching up after a while. Take care.
good job Sundar - we're all cheering you on. its sad that it takes a loss to hit the point home.. but i am glad its home. now let me go get started on the OA!
sivajini,
we call it anything from Tamlish to Tanglish depending on the % Tamil and % English mix..
:)
Kavi, you have a way with words man!
dipali, thanks.
MM, guilt works best.. but in our house San was never able to successfully send me into a guilt trip big enough to make me change my ways.. took a 51 year old dying of a heart failure to point me the right way!
good luck with the OA!
:)
Sundar - no - I prepared him with heavy books... ;)
Gradual accumulation of books...
watch out! :)