“Change or Die”

 I’ve been steadily working my way through Diamond Dallas Page’s latest production: a reality-themed miniseries titled “Change or Die”. I don’t recall where on my social media feeds that news of this popped up?

The wrestling world holds a space near & dear to my heart since watching “Saturday night rasslin” was a activity with my beloved Granddad. I eagerly jumped on the bandwagon with DDP when he started promoting his yoga programs about 15 years ago - bought his DVD’s, then subscribed to his app for quite a while until I let it lapse in 2017. In “Change or Die”, DDP brought together a small group for intensive rehab: a former boxer, another wrestler “wrestling” w/alcoholism & chronic injuries, a plus-sized model who’d outgrown her “specs”, a grandmother & a super-morbidly obese young man. I had a visceral reaction to Taylor Sowers (the young man) since he reminded me so much of my cousin Susie, whom we lost to complications from gastric bypass surgery when she was 26. 

Full of enthusiasm, I have reactivated my DDP app but I’m already behind on the workouts. I realize Rome wasn’t built in a day etc. etc. & there are those who are so much worse off than I am, but again, my shortness of breath & low energy levels are discouraging. Dr Abbi reports that surgery went well on Moonie’s RF foot so current plans remain for me to go pick him up next week to bring him home. Tony still awaits test results to determine whether he has cardiomyopathy.