It�s been three and a half months since the LVRS, and my breathing continues to improve. Of course it will never be like the pre-emphysema days but I can live with that. As you may recall, I�m selling the house to move to a condo. For the past few months, I�ve been sorting out 35 years worth of collected junk and doing many of the chores I wasn�t able to do before LVRS. I was never able to do 5 to 6 continuous hours of even light physical work. Now I can go almost as long as I want.
Finished rehab at Temple . At home, I do stretching exercises, TM, recumbent bike and weight exercises every other day. I hope I have the discipline to keep up the workouts. There are days when I�m really not in the mood but knowing that I can revert back to my pre-LVRS condition, scares the hell out of me.
The treadmill for me is unpredictable. I usually do 40 minutes but there are many days, during the first 10 minutes, when I doubt if I can get to 40 minutes. Then my �second wind� seems to kick in and I do the 40 minutes. It may have something to do with the way my redesigned lungs now work. I�ve learned that varying speeds and elevation during the exercise helps to get me through. If I feel I�m having a problem at the start speed, I can reduce the speed to something more tolerable. Same with the elevation. I then increase when I feel I�ve caught up.
I was wondering about the accuracy of treadmill speeds. The 2.0 MPH I was doing at Temple felt slower than the 2.0 MPH on my TM. It�s probably all in my head.
