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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / July 2005Getting on with life
Hi! I'm now one week past seeding and have been working outside and have a question for you who have gone through seeding. When did you start exercising after the seeding? I was swimming 1/4 to 1/2 mile at least 4 days a week sometimes more and want to start again. I also want to get back on the tractors and mow and bushhog, mow about 4 acres of lawn and have numerous fields to bushhog. I've been the both tractors to move them for my wife and as long as the ground is level all is fine but the bumps feel like sitting on a baseball, not a golf ball as some have alluded to. So any one out there that can give me any advice on this one So far all is going good for one week, I do notice I'm sleeping later in the morning than before. Thanks for any advice, -- John Hi John, Wow! You've got a lot to get back to. I keep a spreadsheet of my workouts. I went back and checked my records as follows: Day 0 - Seeds - June 10, 2004 - age 61 at time of implants. Day 3 - very light workout - lowest resistance level on an elliptical for 20 minutes + 3 sets (12 reps each) light weight, a shoulder exercise called the dorsi-flexor. Day 8 - 23 minutes on the elliptical up to resistance 10 + 4 sets cable crossover (chest) and 3 sets biceps, 3 sets triceps. Days 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20 - full workout (ranging between 25 - 60 minutes cardio and 13 - 21 sets strength). Also, on day 15 after my seeds, I went on a hike in the Cascade mountains from Alpental to Snow Lake in Washington State (7 mile hike, 1300 ft elevation gain). That took me to the end of June. Like you, I was anxious to get on with life. Good luck, Larry > Hi! I'm now one week past seeding and have been working outside and > have a question for you who have gone through seeding. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Thanks for any advice, > -- John One more thing . . . To help with the golf ball effect - or baseball - or whatever, I used a child's inflatable innertube - the kind used in swimming pools. Worked great. Others have talked of filling a sock with rice (uncooked <g>) > Hi John, > Wow! You've got a lot to get back to. [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > Thanks for any advice, > > -- John Swim until your heart is content. Bushhogging should probably wait another week unless you can pad that seat with something so you aren't banging that part of you anatomy against something hard. You don't want to knock a seed loose and have to have it replaced. The reason it feels like a baseball is swelling. As long as you are swollen you have a greater chance of dislodging a seed. Would it really matter if you waited another week? Got a buddy who'd take the tractor out and do it for you? (Shaking my head, guys are all the same they never want to ask for help. Yet guys are so quick to pitch in and help each other, especially when it involves macho things like tractors, chainsaws, or trucks.) Bev > Hi! I'm now one week past seeding and have been working outside and > have a question for you who have gone through seeding. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Thanks for any advice, > -- John never drove a tractor, but count me in if it involves a chainsaw! > <snip> (Shaking my head, guys are all the > same they never want to ask for help. Yet guys are so quick to pitch in [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> Thanks for any advice, >> -- John I'm a city boy, myself. My mother grew up on a farm though and I spent summers as a boy visiting my uncle's farm (the old homestead) and collecting bales of hay and loading them in the barn. Hard work. I tried to milk a cow but couldn't get the hang of it. I did drive a tractor, however. > never drove a tractor, but count me in if it involves a chainsaw! > Would it really matter if you waited another week? Got a buddy who'd > take the tractor out and do it for you? (Shaking my head, guys are all the > same they never want to ask for help. Yet guys are so quick to pitch in and > help each other, especially when it involves macho things like tractors, > chainsaws, or trucks.) > Bev yes mother <vbg> |
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