How do you balance your disease with exercise? For me, I do want to exercise and do workouts sometimes. But the pain in my joints, especially wrists and elbows does not allow me to have a proper schedule to workout. In fact, well, at least one joint or the other will hurt most of the time so it's rather impossible for me to do push-ups or do chin-ups or do weights. I'd say, so far I have been able to work around these problems by applying force on another angle so that it doesn't hurt as much, but well, it really get frustrating when you want to exercise but cannot because of the pain. It does suck when your wrist is so weak from the stiffness that turning a door knob or typing this entry now makes it hurt and it takes some effort to change the angle of your hand so that your wrist doesn't hurt as much. Much less applying 50 times the force on push-ups or weights.

I hope things don't go worse than this though, because I can't imagine how bad things are gonna be when I'm much much older.

In the end, the quality of life one has is still far more important than those ambitions or material wealth that one has. After all, those goals are far away as compared to this pain which is ever so close to your heart.

Labels: Life

|| posted by Kuan Hui