Good day/Bad day

There's good and bad days. Yesterday was a not so good day. JD was very tired and ended up sleeping most of the afternoon. I was cranky and tired as well so that never bodes well for a good evening. Nothing terribly exciting happened. No big fights or blowouts or anything, well you saw my posts yesterday just pretty down. General annoyance by everyone in the house, including the kids. Yesterday was the last day of school for the kids and field day for our oldest son. He was hot and sunburnt and just cranky. Which means our youngest was also cranky because his brother was bugging him. Anyway, just a blah day.

Today however has been a 180 degree shift. We started out the day with cardiac rehab, our first appointment. We met with a nurse and had a long chat about what caused JD's heart attack and what we could do to prevent another one in future. She gave us a neat diagram of the heart and where JD's blockage was. I'll put it in here, you can click on it to make it bigger. The yellow mark at the top of the LAD is where his blockage was! Then he got to do some stretching and cardio exercises; treadmill, stationary bicycle, and the arm peddler. So now we go three times a week starting tomorrow and he gets to do 45 minutes of exercise while being monitored.

They have classes every Wednesday on different topics like diet, exercise and anatomy of the heart. We will go to a few of those. I'm sure we'll go to the diet and nutrition one and I would like to go to the anatomy and physiology of the heart. I've been thorough anatomy and physiology 3 times and I just love learning about these things. We'll probably go through the stress management class as well, not that we have any stress, no not us!

We ran errands after that, we have some friends coming to stay with us from out of town for a month or so. I needed to get some cleaning supplies and various sundry items that had been put on the back burner while money was so tight here recently. JD did good through all of our running around, he had been getting fatigued pretty easily but luckily we made it through about 3 hours of errands and he still had enough energy to make us some lunch and watch a movie! Definitely much better than yesterday.

I'm so proud of all he is doing for himself! He's changed his whole life around. He used to eat lots of red meat, drink about 5 or 6 Mountain Dews and go through a little over half a pack of cigarettes. That was his existence, now we're trying out the different flavors of Crystal Light so we can find some we both agree on. He hasn't had a cigarette for a week and a half, same with Mt. Dew. He's really been a trooper. I'm so glad he's been so agreeable with all these changes, my stress level would probably be about 20 times higher if he weren't willing to at least try every day!