I hope she does, too. She worries me, because she eats mostly junk, and she smokes and drinks too much, but she's naturally thin, so she's always pretended that it doesn't matter. At least now she has a Very Serious doctor telling her everything we've been telling her, so there's a good chance she'll listen! And if she has to have the surgery that is currently a maybe, I think it will scare her into rethinking things.

I had an acquaintance die earlier this year, and he took just as little care of himself as she does, except that it showed more on him. I thought he was about my age, he was 36. That's not right!

And I hear you on the lack of guilty conscience ;-) But I do wish I had never had a break in fitness, and that more of my friends were keeping up with theirs.