How much is too much?

about exercise with ESLD. What were any of you able to do, or able to continue during your best attempts to keep healthy? Did anyone get instructions on what is good exercise, or too much exercise. I worry about electrolytes, dehydration, even with the most vigilant. Thanks :)

I walked around my cul de sac for 40 minutes in the am and 40 minutes in the evening. I would go when it was cooler not in the heat of mid day,.

My neighbors say they miss seeing me walk my route. I go to gym 3 hours a day post tx.

I tinker around. I have a small shop outside in the backyard where I can do little projects. Cut grass or rake leaves and pine straw (Gardening). Raking is a workout and usually I'll take a rest break after 20 minutes or so. I can't pick up heavy things due to hernia patch work. I fight the urge to sleep through out the day but once I finally get moving I can go for awhile.


Ziff

Sure it does!!! If he can hop on one foot and flap one arm while doing the patented "Behind the back channel change" he's a gold medal candidate.


Ziff

Like Ziff, I enjoy raking and general gardening. I can get my heart rate up a bit via raking, but I do not have much stamina at all - 10 minutes, I would guess, then a rest and then perhaps a bit more raking.

I take 1/2 mile walks with my dog, very slowly around the neighborhood.

I must care for my chickens twice daily at least. I love the girls, and I am glad they are a reason I have to put my shoes on and get out to the coop. I have six chickens. They are just the cutest, funniest things you have ever seen. And I get eggs. : )

I can sometimes do things like go to Costco and the like, but by the time I get in the car to drive home, I can feel the fatigue and generalized loopy-ness. I can feel that I am slightly impaired with driving home, and when I get home, I generally need to go directly for a long (2+ hour) coma-like nap.

Fortunately, my son accompanied me today, and he drove home and put away all the giant packages.

MD basically wants me to take it easy, perhaps taking gentle short walks a couple of times a day when I feel up to it. He wants no jerking or straining or lifting, running, yada yada, you get the idea, due to the two hernias I have, the portal hypertension, the distended spleen, etc.

The MD would prefer I do no scrubbing or vacuuming, or for that matter, raking. The day will probably come when I will no longer be able to do those things. Until then, they are part and parcel of my life as a stay at home parent.