We are very lucky indeed.
Love everyone's walking/training plans! I was doing pretty good with walking a few nights a week and then the heat wave from he** hit PA and I couldn't make myself do it. So I am trying to get back into the routine.
The heat has been bothering me as well, I'd love to get outside to do some trial runs and some days I just can't make myself. Air conditioned gym with a treadmill, thank you very much.
I told DH I wanted to do a 5K at WDW when I got in shape some day and he said sounds good (baby steps ladies - LOL!).
Baby steps are good.
All I can think of now is What About Bob.
Baby steps on to the bus...
TK -
I never knew exactly what happened. Thank you for sharing. I am sure just typing the words was hard.
There were very few people who knew exactly what happened. I never talked about it on the DIS, really. It just felt too personal at the time. And I didn't want to dishonor my mother by discussing it then, because she was still "with" us. And honestly, the things that I had to watch her go through...no one should ever have to see anyone they love like that.
I do have some...happy memories from the hospital, if you can call them that. One was deciding the reason we'd never been able to pick a name for the baby was because we were meant to name him after her. We used a variation of her first name, and it's actually an existing boy's name.
She had her toenails done in the prettiest pink polish because she was on vacation the week before it happened. Every nurse commented on how pretty my mother was, how pretty her nails were, she was like a princess. And I made sure that her nails were done, in clear, before she passed. I painted them myself, and I used lotion from the Grand Floridian, from our trip. Every time I smell that scent now, I think of her, and for a long time, it was painful, but now I feel like to have that happy memory. I was not sending my mother off with her hands not tended to.
I totally understand your words about making a choice that wasn't a choice. I had to do that with my first pregnancy - I had to "choose" to end it but there was no choice because it was that or it would end itself with a lot more complications and suffering. Just wanted to share so you knew how much that sentence held true for me and resonated with me and so you know someone else that has had a similar life experience.
I am so sorry you had to go through that.
I think I sound bitter when I say that we give ourselves the illusion of control, but really, I am not. I am acknowledging that it's a big crazy world we live in, and that sometimes, things don't make sense, and they don't happen the way we want them to.
The most important thing is that we have dear friends and family to share our happiness and our sadness with. That's really what it's all about.
And in that vein, that's really what this 5K is about for me. The DIS boards have been such a source of inspiration, the "strangers" I've met here, so supportive. It would be an honor to run with you.
Especially in tiaras, tutus, and tie dye.
Seriously. If I wasn't on prozac for pmdd, I would be BAWLING right now!! 
I've told you on your ptr how I understand. Totally. And how traumatic that must have been to be in limbo for weeks, just waiting. 
I'll be sure to wave to you
Just thinking about that movie makes me laugh.
