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Paul Raymo visits with Stephanie Weber on the Agape tour bus.
RAYMO’S RAMBLINGS – A NURSE THAT ROCKS!
A NURSE THAT ROCKS!
This September I will be 60 years old. Just saying that out loud and typing it out, it doesn’t seem possible or real. I surely don’t feel 60 and I guess that is a good thing. I am a 20-year-old trapped in a 60-year-old body!! However, my body is showing signs that it is reaching 60 years old. I have never abused my body with drugs, smoking, or excessive alcohol use. But I have damaged it with food over the years, not eating healthy or just eating too much, along with other factors like a sedentary lifestyle for the most part have plugged my heart arteries.
So this past March for the second time in my life I had heart issues and had another stent put in at the St. Cloud Hospital. I thank God for modern technology and medicine, it is amazing what they can do.
And again after the stent was put in, I have had to go through cardiac rehab at the Madison Hospital. It’s something I really don’t want to do or take the time to do, but know that it is necessary to do to be healthy. Three years ago when I got my first stent I quit cardiac rehab.
So this time my cardiac rehab nurse Marissa Stahl of the Madison Health Care Services and I have spent the last three months together in the rehab room, three times a week strengthening my heart and getting in shape and talking about how to be healthy. I must admit I really didn’t want to do this, and after the first couple of sessions wanted to quit. I wanted to quit because I didn’t want to take the time out of my schedule to do this. I’m too busy, I had more important things to do, I didn’t see the importance of it, I thought it a waste of time. Excuses excuses!
But I thank Marissa for encouraging me, and working with me and really just giving me an ear to listen to my struggles when it comes to trying to lose weight and exercising. Most of you know me pretty well and I like to talk and during walking on the treadmill, or riding the (hated) bike or the elliptical seated bike I just talked her ear off, I think she needs a medal for just listening to me.
But each day I walked into the rehab room she always had a smile and a happy greeting for me. She made the hour or so with me interesting and fun, we would always watch the tv show The Chew, which I had never seen before cardiac rehab, it’s a show about food and cooking of all things, but it was fun to watch. As the days went along I always felt better walking out the door and I felt good about myself about what I was accomplishing.
When I finished my last session, Marissa had a small graduation ceremony for me, presenting me with a cardiac rehab t shirt, and a certificate of completion, but the best part was she took my picture, and I get it put up on the cardiac rehab graduation board with the others that graduated too. I might be the youngest one up on the board, youngest being just about 60!
I take that back, the best part of my graduation ceremony was getting a hug from Marissa and telling me that I did a great job! She’s a nurse that rocks!
RAYMO’S RAMBLINGS HAIR PROBLEMS
I’ve got hair problems! This is going to sound like a womanly blog, so i might be losing my man card. In one of my earlier blogs I wrote about my hair and how I am growing it out or wanting to grow it longer. I missed a haircut appointment and just never rescheduled it and my hair started to get real long, just like in high school and I thought it looked cool. I received so many comments on that hair blog, it was unbelievable. People are continuing to talk about it to me on the street, at ball games, and in restaurants when they see me and notice that my hair is long. Mostly the comments are 50/50, they hate it or love it. Personally I really like it……..my wife not so much! Even my own beautiful four year old granddaughter Gretta has turned on me, and keeps telling everyone I need a haircut because I’m looking like a girl!!
Then my younger brother Jim gets involved and is growing his hair out too and keeps posting pictures of his wild looking hair on Facebook and tagging me. I’ve posted some of his pictures for you to look at and decide who is crazier, him or me. But over the weekend he wimped out and had his wife cut his hair, or was it his wife who told him to sit down I’m cutting your hair?
Anyways my long hair is causing relationship problem/issues with my wife, adult kids, grandchildren, Coworkers and some friends. My daughter is getting married in October and her texts to me keep saying “cut the locks, you are not looking like that in the wedding picture” My wife agrees with her.
I did say the comments are 50/50, so many people have told me they really like it, mostly friends or acquaintances. But here is the problem, the people that I love the most hate it. But if I’m happy with it, well then what do I do? Need some help from you readers, feel free to weigh in on this please.
Who would have guessed a simple blog could create so much turmoil, and over hair!! We have much bigger problems to deal with.
STATE GOLF DAWSON/BOYD TYLER LUND
Paul Raymo visits with Dawson/Boyds Tyler Lund, Tyler is in the state golf tournament in Becker