After 8 months of a sinus infection I am thankful to say it
is over.
My last long run was a 50K in the Trinity W.V. run, with
RD’s Adam Cassaday and Dan Lehman. The
week prior I had started feeling bad and it blew up into a full-scale sinus
infection.
Almost choosing surgery along with six rounds of
antibiotics, two CT scans, multiple doctor’s visits with primary care,
emergency room Dr., ENT, and my oncologist and nothing really helped. The antibiotics helped for about two weeks
and then it would return. I was almost
about to agree to surgery when, together with my wife, we heard a report about
peanut allergies affecting respiratory systems.
The thought went through my mind, to consider not eating peanuts to see
if it would help. (I ate peanuts by the handfuls, many times a day).
After two days, I reported to my wife, “I tried that, but it
didn’t help”. She made me laugh at
myself and encouraged me to try it a little longer. After two weeks, still no change, but I kept
staying off of peanuts. IN that third
week, I slowly got better, and am thankful.
Exercise classes supplemented 8 months of little or no
running. (It is humbling to be one of
two males in an exercise class filled with super fit women.) The classes helped me strengthen my core and
rest my legs. I am thankful to report
the last two weeks I was able to log a long run of 6.25 and 6.75 miles with no
after affects.
I am thankful to know that there is more exercises than
running that one can participate in to stay in shape. I also made lots of new friends, and can
laugh at myself at how bad I am at many things super fit women are really good
at. At least for me, any exercise
involving abs, core, obliques the women are so much better at, and I gave them
lots of comic relief in the classes.
Just pausing to give thanks to God and all the many dynamics
that brought me though the 8 months of a sinus infection.
