The "Heart" Diaries - February 26
Tuesday, February 26 – 11:03 p.m. The last week has been a struggle, adjusting to a “new normal”. In nearly an instant, I went from thirty-plus miles a week as a distance runner, to not being able to run a step under doctor’s orders. The culprit is a heart condition that has yet to be fully diagnosed. When something is as significant a part of life as running has been for me the last several years, to be suddenly and forcibly separated from the sport has been hard to say the least – especially with all the unknowns. I don’t know exactly what I am dealing with, or how long I might deal with it. In short, the road ahead is very clouded, which for someone like me makes the present very frustrating, especially when I still feel every bit the healthy capable runner I was prior to last week’s potential diagnoses. But there is a problem, one which I do not know the severity, duration or outcome of, and the uncertainty has been both fearful and stressful, to