When walking is a whole lot better than sitting.

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 yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013

and 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. You probably can hear some wildlife.

Those are ducks.

I'm walking beside a lake right now.

And there's quite a few ducks just kind of

casually, gently floating by every now and then they'll

make a sound. You may hear that.

So yesterday, if you heard that episode, I was enjoying a walk across the Arthur Ravanaugh-Ravinell

Jr. Bridge that spans Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, with Charleston, South Carolina. But I mentioned at the

end of the episode that we are not here in Charleston for a fun mini vacation, but actually

something not fun at all. As I am walking, my wife Eva is in surgery. She's had some abdominal

issues that began earlier this fall and have been relentless and now surgery is needed.

And so she is just now getting surgery I

just left the pre-op room and I was told the surgery will take anywhere from

three to four hours she will be in the hospital from two to five nights and then we will go home

and her recovery. We'll take anywhere, as they say, to return to normal, we'll take anywhere from

six to eight weeks.

The expected outcome is very positive.

There's always the possibility for risks and complications,

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