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This is just a note for myself really. It is Friday and I am still battling this cold. I head to the doctor today. I hate that because that usually means medicine. I just do not like medicine. Arggg.

On a positive note, the right shoulder continues to strengthen and improve.

The injury to it was most peculiar and I dicovered that the injury was apparently to my shoulder/trapezius tiein. Or so it seems. I notince that in certain potitions my right trap was really hurting me, where it ties into the shoulder. I am not a doctor or course, and I intend to get a referral to a specialist to be sure, but I am fairly confident the injury was more in this area than to the front of the shoulder…..
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Here is a really interesting snippet from an article on the issues of lung problems and breathing technique in professional sports and athletics.

Why do some pass a cardiac stress test and drop dead the following day or soon thereafter? Competitive athletes and non competitive exercisers (this also applies to Fire and Police personnel as well as emergency paramedics and anyone that must intensely breath-heave, gasp or over exert repeatedly on the job or otherwise) routinely breathe too hard, too fast, and too soon. This is unbalanced hyper-inhalation. They often mouth-breathe, breath-heave and/or gasp to get the air they need to support their exertions. This kind of charged breathing can develop respiratory problems due the constriction of the breathing muscles, reduced breathing volume, and internal coordination restrictions such as presented in sports induced asthma. I believe this is often why many athletes develop sports induced breathing problems, and die prematurely of heart and vascular problems, and incur many of the problems listed below.

For the entire article Go To Optimal Breathing

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Today I had my second workout since battling back from Pneumonia. Who knows how long I had it. Perhaps for months. Who knows? The prognosis is good I suppose, but my doctor told me that my lungs were damaged; not permanently, but damaged nevertheless. He says it is reversible and if we can take care of the infection causing the Pneumonia, I should be on my way to feeling great again. Thank goodness.

As a rule, I do not take many meds. This is a personal choice. As a child, I was always battling colds and so forth, and at the time my doctors had me on a steady stream of antibiotics. But at one point, as I got older mind you, I made the decision to stop taking them because I didn’t want my body to become immune to them. With my active lifestyle, I just forged ahead using only my enzymes to digest foods and pounding down good antioxidants and protein. The results spoke for themselves.
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