Hmm, 3 seems to be my number lately.... anyway, we are in the midst of lock down number 3. I can definitely say that I was more mentally prepared for this one. I knew, based on the current world, and this countries situation, that it wouldn't be long. Sadly and gratefully, it is an easy transition now. A few things moved around, and we are set up for our virtual classes.
One of the things we talked about this week was having your training space, and making your own 'kwoon', and I think this is very important, and something we do have at home. We train both in our living room for the space for virtual classes, and our basement for our kicks, and workouts. We also have a room in our basement which is our 'alter' if you will. It has everything we need for it to be our kwoon. All of our belts hang on a rack that Don made for that specific reason. The window shade is our old kung fu shirts, and we even have some mementos from the kwoon itself, from some of Master Brinker's spring cleaning. It is home, and it is our kwoon. Yes, we can use mostly any space to train in, and can be anywhere, and it is important to recognize, and maintain this to have a successful journey.
Another challenge that has come up is a no sugar challenge for most of the month of April. This first week has been both unsuccessful, and successful. Unsuccessful in the sense that no sugar is almost impossible in life. There is even sugar in milk!! I feel that is has been successful, as it has made me extremely aware of what I am eating and drinking. I have taken away my coffee creamer, which I think has been the hardest, as well as no regular dessert. We did have carrot cake one day. I have only had 2 days this week that I have had more than 10 grams of sugar. I am now looking at the sugars in everything I am eating and drinking, and I am pretty happy with that. I was also doing some research on a 'normal' amount of daily sugar intake, and the consensus seems to be about 25 grams. So if you consider any drinks, sauces, condiments, and any prepared foods that we consume, I am pretty happy with 10 or less. I will continue on this journey of watching my intake of sugars, and everything else not healthy for me past the month of April, and am quite excited about it. Thank you Miss Ward for the challenge.
Update on my mom - I received a call late Friday night that she was out of isolation, and I could visit again. Her shingles are healing nicely, but unfortunately her delirium has not changed. We are waiting on a referral to a long term facility to see if they can adjust medication to help this, and hopefully get her back to her current facility. Unfortunately, an hour before my visit yesterday morning, I received another call stating that the hospital has a suspected case of Covid, and they are on lock down, visitations cancelled. And then this afternoon, shortly after we started our kicks for the day, the hospital was calling again. This thankfully, a mistaken identity call. The doctor stated that she was calling to inform me that visitation has been approved for end of life. She stated that my mom was declining rapidly. After the initial shock, and listening to her describe a few more things, I questioned who she was referring to. She then realized she had called the wrong Debbie. Although thankful, I was still sad, as someone else was to get this call today. I was not angry, as mistakes do happen, we are human. Even the superhuman doctors are human. I actually felt an almost overwhelming amount of empathy for this doctor, and all of the doctors, nurses and healthcare staff in today's world. I cannot image the feelings they have to deal with every single day, and try to cope with everything and everyone in this pandemic. She felt horrible, and extremely apologetic for the mix up, but I think I felt worse for her. Hopefully soon I will be able to visit again, and until then I will continue to call in a couple of times a day for a check in.
Thanks for reading, see you all on the screen.
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