well ironically enough i'm sitting here with a cast on my leg because i resumed an aerobics class the night before last
oh no
i ripped the ligaments in my right ankle
awe
yeah so
exercise is not supposed to do that to you
that's what the nurses kept saying as they laughed all the way you know down the hallway
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do you do anything on a regular basis
well i i off and on off and on right now i've been off off
but um i've been going over to the fitness center
yeah that's a good yeah i my husband's a TIer in the house unit here
yeah three times
yeah three uh-huh well i try to go over there at least three times a week and i try to walk um at least five times a week
do you when you go to the Texans i have to ask you and if this is getting to we're not supposed to get too particular but i'm just curious
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when you go over there does it bother you in terms of how things are arranged either at the Dallas location or the Spring Creek in terms of there's so much it's so much of a weight orientation weight lifting et cetera
yeah uh well i've been going to Spring Creek i haven't been to the Dallas one now in oh a couple of years yeah well at least since they've redone it supposedly redone
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yeah it's well it's not that great and i go to the Spring Creek one on and off but my husband's working over there and he just goes to the Dallas one but i just don't i mean it's just so much weight lifting even the Spring Creek one has a lot of weights in it
so i don't really know what
yeah
yeah that's true
or is that what your into or
no no well i've i've used the Nautilus equipment and the bikes and stair climbers and stuff like that mostly i don't use the free weights but
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yeah
i like the tread mill and the stair master myself over there
yeah i like those too and the pool yeah that's great
and the pool when it gets warmer
yeah i know well what i did was i went to a jazzercise class
in a new location in Richardson near where we live in North Dallas and
long story short i hadn't this is really a stupid thing that happened but they have like the gymnasium flooring and then like they had about three feet of linoleum around the perimeter in the back where i usually stand
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in any class like that i go to instead of having that level you know
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they had a chrome strip that wasn't level and it was about four inches deep and then about oh a seventy degree angle
oh my goodness
and as we were jumping around or doing something i just jumped up and came right down on it
um
the orthopedist called it a uh basketball injury where the ankle just rolls under you and it snapped
uh-huh
woo
i know we went to uh HDA well whatever in Plano and the emergency room was like a bad comedy show
and the doctor said you didn't do anything there's only a one in five hundred chance that the radiologist will call you that was Tuesday night and Wednesday night the radiologist called me at work and uh i was on crutches and he said i think you better call an orthopedist
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um
so we went to one and he just put a big old cast on it
put a big cast on it
yeah for about four weeks
four weeks yeah
so i mean i like aerobics but i'm not so sure
well not that much though
no i've never i was off for about six months too just for some other surgery i'd had but i've never i'd you know i was pretty much in shape walking and
and you know this is one of those things like this orthopedist said he said you'd be surprised how many basketball how many people come in here with things like that because they are active
yeah
you know i was real embarrassed but i felt kind of stupid
well those things happen though
yeah they do i mean i guess i'm glad you know that um nobody really noticed i guess you could say
yeah
because i got up and started jumping on it again
well that did a lot of good i'm sure
yeah really so i enjoy aerobics and i do it because i like it i mean i like the music and
yeah
that kind of stuff
i like the music but i've been unable to do that because i hurt my foot about five years ago i broke my heel
oh
and uh so
that makes my foot how'd you do that in aerobics
no no actually i was up on a ladder and uh fell off leaned the wrong way
oh goodness
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and when i came down i hit with my full weight on my foot but on concrete
what'd they do for that did they have to cast it and
yeah they had well they had to go in and do surgery they put a pin in it
oh so the aerobics the impact would not be good
yeah
yeah that cause i permanently damaged the the uh cushion under my heel you know the normal cushion that you have there so
oh goodness
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i can't do any jumping up and down because it makes it hurt
oh that makes sense so i mean are you in terms of other things like like like not running but playing a little bit of tennis or can you not do stuff like that at all
uh well i haven't tried that i don't know it's been i bet it's it's been thirty years since i played tennis
yeah it's been
but um mostly into just walking and stuff like that
that's probably the safer way because i notice in aerobics um lot of the women that that don't look like they shouldn't be doing certain things
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i'm always afraid they're going to fall over and have a coronary coronary
yeah
and there was my ego when i went ahead and i went oh i can do that and
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half the time though i don't um jump half as much as i mean i'm like i'm real tall and you know i'm i'm not heavy but when you go easy a hundred seventy at my height um i'm five eleven
uh-hum uh-hum
oh
you know you just take it easy um but when i see some women i mean some and i just don't think it's healthy all that pounding all the time
sure
it isn't really it's not really good for your knees
so yeah that's the other reason and
uh-hum
i don't know this was just i guess something freak that happened to me because i wasn't familiar with the um
well the floor was uneven you know
oh it was completely i mean it literally the two dissimilar floor level floor coverings were not level and at first after it happened i thought maybe that's a handicap access and then i said no that's just the way it's constructed
sure
yeah
yeah
and my husband being a TI engineer i said i said a few things to him when i got home i said who has engineered that
real ly
but i uh sounds like you like one thing that i like like swimming you like that a lot
uh-huh yeah i like swimming uh-huh
do you like that what'd that voice say do you like to exercise because you want to or because you have to
uh no i like i like it because i i want to it makes me feel better
that's how i am yeah
yeah
if i don't do it i just feel like i don't have as much energy
uh-huh i mean it's real funny because if you you know it seems like when you exercise and expend the energy that you'd be tired but it's the other way around
right it curbs the appetite and helps with the calories and all that stuff
uh-huh yeah really
yeah and i need all the help i can get
yeah but
that gravity factor i know
uh-hum uh-huh it does get you
like that orthopedist said to me he said don't worry Diane he says he said uh you're at thirty something but you're on the upper side he said that uh don't worry he says even if you weren't doing anything your body would start that would start to happen to you
but thanks a lot
yeah because i was saying to him i said i'm not that heavy i'm not heavy you know maybe ten to fifteen pounds like any other human being
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i said uh why do i feel like i need to start pushing myself more and he goes human nature
no
and then you know you see these little girls in these little bitty things and they're all like twenty one years of age
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uh-hum
but luckily at Texans there's a little more diverse diverse clientele
that's true they do
except for the guys that lift the weights they do intimidate
they do
yeah i try try to go real late or real early before they get there
there's
yeah there some things i'd like to try but you know sometime when i ask i just feel like boy am i stupid or what
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that's one thing i like about the Spring Creek place at least the fellow that's there one of the fellows that's there at night and on weekends is real helpful
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and his name is B J
and
i don't think i've ever i think i've that there was some girl there i've been there like maybe a dozen times but i actually like that site better than the other one just because of the type people that go to
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it's terrible it's i don't know if the Dallas location it just seems that um sometimes i feel like i'm in a singles bar
yeah yeah that's true yeah i and i haven't haven't noticed that up at Spring Creek
no i haven't either and i just uh it's not that far of a drive and i'm glad they did that um you're not missing anything at the Dallas renovated site it's not
at all anything worth talking about
yeah i thought maybe one of these days i'll drive over there and check it out but
yeah but if you don't live near there that's not worth
yeah i live in Richardson but it's about half way between the Spring Creek and the the Dallas site so
we
yeah that's that's actually where this happened to me out in i say Plano but it's all the same to me Richardson over on Campbell and Park Hill there's a uh new recreation center
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and uh as we were doing it too everybody noticed that there were all these big guys of assorted nationalities to play basketball waiting around for us and as we walked out i was limping and i'm like oh great i have purple tights on you know
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and they're going yes but in general i like to exercise i i like dance a lot so i mean i aerobics is something i'd hate to give up but
uh-huh uh-huh
he he kind of said something to me about probably not as bad as your foot but he just said to me maybe you ought to try bicycling or
yeah probably will for a while because it
it's going to be real tender when they
he told me eight to twelve weeks not anything you know i said but you're only going to put the cast on for a couple of weeks he said yeah but
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that's just they tried to put me in some kind of um immobilized walker because he doesn't like to put casts on when it's warm but i just the more they tried to get my foot in the more i screamed i couldn't you know
yeah i know what you mean
adjust that well you you know more about this stuff than i do obviously then
not fun
no well you're walking okay now obviously and you can
oh yeah i have a slight limp from it but it matches one if i have one on the other side
yeah yeah you know
so you're still able to walk yeah
well is there anything else about exercise we can talk about
well other than i need to go you know more
yeah me too me too i need to go actually get something to eat here
i need go more but it's great though i really do enjoy it
okay thank you Sandy
sure thanks then
uh-huh bye-bye
bye-bye
