Take Care of your Body- it’s the only place you have to live”  Jim Rohn (1930 - 2009)

 

At 7 PM on a Friday night, I was wheeled into the operative recovery  room after a marathon 5 hour emergency surgery to decompress spinal stenosis, fuse vertebrae and insert a metal rod. Not even twelve hours later, a physiotherapist came into the hospital room, got me out of bed and clutching the pole of my  IV stand,  I was shuffling around the ward, murmuring the mantra she taught me, “nose over toes”.  It was movement, not rest that would stimulate the healing process, I was told.