09/18/2020
This is my Mom ❤
A little over a week ago, I shared with you some of my own personal health struggles, including my hip replacement surgeries and doctors predicting I would be in a wheelchair by the time I was 30 (I am currently 32 years old).
This time I want to share with you a little about my mom’s own personal journey with her health.
Six years ago I got a call that my mom was being rushed to the hospital. In essence her heart had split open and she was bleeding out.
She was rushed by helicopter to the Mayo Clinic where surgeons performed life-saving experimental heart surgery. By all accounts, my mom was expected to die on that table. Miraculously, my mom not only survived the surgery, but is still with us today.
My mom currently has sleeves over her heart valves, the only thing preventing her heart from bleeding out. Due to this she is prone to getting light headed and blacking out when her body has to work too hard to circulate her blood flow. Doctors have warned us that one day when she passes out, she might not wake up again.
Every day my mom is still with us is truly a miracle. I have been truly blessed to love and be loved by such a strong, generous, kind hearted, stubborn woman.
My mom's heart condition is genetic and something I am finally coming to terms with getting tested for. I want to make sure I am doing everything I can to be around for the people in my life that I love. So today I want to remind everyone that we only get one life and one body. And while there are certain things that are out of our control, there are things we can control in how we treat our body.
Today's workout is in honor of my mom:
8 calf touches
8 hands to overhead locked out
8 stairs walk up and down
8 seated leg raises
8 walking high knees
8 standing Russian twist
2 min break then repeated 5x