Walking as medicine. Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a podcast of action providing

a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started

walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

So here we are, day four, I think it is, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Actually, and I had this little conversation with myself.

Technically, we are not in Charleston.

We are on the other side of the Cooper River in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

That's where the hospital is that Ava is recovering from surgery and the hotel, where I'm staying while she's in the hospital.

If you are in South Carolina, particularly this part of South Carolina, you understand the difference between Charleston and Mount Pleasant, but for most of the rest of the world, it's like Mount Pleasant?

What's that?

So Charleston is far more recognizable. But there's the part of me that wants to make sure I'm technically accurate.

I have seen Charleston.

I was walking on the bridge a few days ago.

I was looking at the Charleston skyline as I was walking towards Charleston from Mount Pleasant.

So now that I have eased my conscience and have clarified where I actually am,

we can move on. So yesterday I had a pretty good day. First full day of recovery after

surgery. She had major abdominal surgery. And one of the things the doctor

wanted her to do was to get up and walk. She actually wanted Ava to walk once on the day of surgery,

which she did, I think it was maybe seven hours after surgery ended.

And she was able to do a lap.

It might have been two laps around the nurse's station.

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