My New Best Friend

In May I started working out at the YMCA. I went to be with friends, to get this body into better shape and to keep from having a knee replacement. In the last 6 months I have lost at least one size in clothing, went from not able to walk on the treadmill for 3 minutes to easily doing 60 minutes at 10% incline as a warm-up and have met a few new friends along the way. One of those friends is a bag of frozen peas.

To be honest, I have never been easy on my body, always pushing it to do things it was never meant to do. I played sports and what I lacked in natural ability I made up for in determination and persistence. That is in part why today I have one knee that was rebuilt in the mid-70s and the other needs some major work.


Each night I come home from the Y and grab my bag of peas out of the freeze and sit at my computer or in front of the TV with that bag on a sore body part, a knee, a foot, a shoulder. I know that without my buddy the peas I would be unable to continue the workouts so we have this wonderful relationship where we spend just the right about of time together, not too short and definitely not too long (have you ever had frost bite on your shoulder? I have.)

As I think of it that bag of peas is like family. They help you to remember who you are, they ease some of the pain of life, but you sure don’t want to spend too much time with them.

So next time you have an ache get yourself a bag of frozen peas.