Page 8: Exercise Exercise Exercise! If you don't I will bitch-slap you to death. Exercise gets blood moving and helps keep all of your tissues alive. This is particularly important after you have been nearly dead. Endurance stuff is probably more important than strength stuff, but if you have time for both, then do both. Recently I added some abdominal exercises. I tended to avoid these because they caused discomfort and pain. Well now, that's exactly WHEN you should do certain exercises. Like if you sprain an ankle, then you want to move it around a little even though it hurts. Anyway, I have/had chronic stomach pain, probably related to adhesions, plus a bout of infectious colitis every 6 months or so. The first time this happened, I thought I was going to die, so I ended up in the emergency room with a big bill for some antibiotics (cipro and flagyl). On recurrences I just go to a walk-in clinic, tell them what's up, and they prescribe what's needed, and the total bill is maybe $100 rather than $5000. However, the medication is hard on the system, so it's good to avoid. And magically, I discovered that abdominal exercises can help. Here are two exercises to try. 1) Belly dancer stomach rolling. You can do this whenever you're in the car. 2) Sliding off the bed. Lay face down with your arms and chest hanging off the bed. The edge of the bed should be at the abdominal end of your sternum. Put your hands (or elbows) on the floor to support your weight with your arms. Now slowly slide off the bed while maximizing the "edge of bed" force on your abdomen. Stop when the edge of bed reaches your pubic bone. Shove yourself back onto the bed and repeat. During this process, hang off the bed for awhile to let your guts shift toward your chest. Both of these exercises will get blood moving, stimulate "shifting" of your guts, and sort of massage things. They work for me, but who knows, they may not work for you. 3) Jumping jacks and other jumping up and down things.