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I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk

every single day. I'm walking right now. I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

So I'm going to start by giving you an update on Ava. Surgery was a little more than a week ago,

and the recovery continues to move along nicely. She's had a couple of days that I guess you could call were setbacks, and for her,

the setbacks have primarily been energy level. The body uses an awful lot of calories to recover, and in her case, recover from major

abdominal surgery. And part of the prescription from the doctor is to walk as much as possible.

And one more little factor, because this was major abdominal surgery, even though she has very few restrictions on what she can eat, her appetite is very low.

And so all of that has left her very, very tired and weak.

And there have been a couple of days since we got home

where the forward progress stalled

and there might even have been a step back.

But gratefully to this point, those steps back have only been minimal and have only lasted for a day.

So generally she's getting better, she's moving forward, progress is being made, and what's

really been cool is we've been walking around the neighborhood multiple times a day. And our neighbors are so kind.

And of course, they're out, they're walking, they're moving as well.

And when they see Ava, they stop and ask how she's doing, how she feels.

Is there anything that they can do for her?

Now, remember, two years ago, my wife was in an auto accident and the recovery had her in a wheelchair for two months and I would push her around the neighborhood.

Most days. So they saw her in the wheelchair being pushed.

They saw once she was out of the wheelchair, this slow recovery, walking very slowly,

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