It’s amazing the way we take our health for granted. I remember when I used to take walks and how much I enjoyed smelling the clean air and noticing how beautiful nature was especially in the fall. Then I got hemorrhoids! What a cramp in anyone’s lifestyle. This happened to me after trying to deliver a baby and having to push until I thought my insides we become outsides. It took awhile using some of that wonderful hemorrhoid cream to get rid of the annoying little bobbles. I can remember trying to take walks after that; it was painful each step I took.

The process of walking just rubbed back and forth making it feel much worse than when I just sat still on a couch. Even sitting on a hard chair was uncomfortable. Then the dreaded bowel movement eventually became unavoidable. Because it hurt so much I tended to hold and clench because I just didn’t want to experience the pain again. That just made things worse. Looking back I would take a little more care to drink a lot of water and maybe take a stool softener to make the simple things we take for granted a little more easy to do. I value my “comfortableness” much more than I used to.