Wow, blogger is really screwing with the tiny smilies. The html in there is about as obnoxious as it gets. In the old days I used to be able to just slap those in there, now it's like there's a fussy butler telling me I can't leave my shoes in the middle of the livingroom. Oh, well.
Timewarping backward, I skipped sharing about the skating. I grew up skating once in awhile, raised my kids skating a bit, love skating, but over time I grew way too ill and crippled to get back on skates any more without fear I'd seriously injure myself falling. All that backstory is scattered across other blogs, I've been crawling back up the mountain and blinking in the light for a few years and becoming more capable again.
Friday, with a little help, I got back into skates, huzzah! I didn't hit the rink, but I did witness 3 other adults wipe out super hard. One woman either sprained or broke her wrist and possibly got a head injury, a sort of young man may have twisted his ankle pretty good, and an older gentlemen out with grandkids actually suddenly full body slammed hard on his right side and my first cringe was hoping he didn't break his hip. Not sure how he even got back up from that on his own. I decided before I put the skates on not to be dumb and tempt the fates, way too many fates practicing on me throughout my life, so I got a skatemate and stayed on the carpet. Never fell, got my skate legs back fairly quickly, which was the bomb, but I found tiny muscles around my lower spine that I'm apparently still not engaging with the workouts and stretches I do at home (or normal walking or stairs), so I still can't trust my balance for awhile until I've got some more lower core strengthened up. My legs did just fine, which was a real surprise. Even my feet barely gave me a nod later.
Never give up! I've had muscle shred all over my body from a very nasty accident, especially up and down my spine, that's had to be remapped in physical therapy sessions over many years just to be able to engage them again, plus reshredding the scar tissue so I could reheal properly, and I'm back in skates.
Even better, I haven't had to refill my pain prescription this summer. I could If I wanted to, but the dependence being on it just over 3 months was all I could take. I'm an addict, time to clean off. I'm thrilled I'm doing well enough to be able to do this. Hopefully I don't need a refill the rest of the year.
Right now the hardest thing is I'm so genuinely tired. This isn't chronic fatigue, this is actual tiredness from being busy. Doesn't look like I'll have to go anywhere this week, maybe I can get naps and catch up.
Sorry so boring but that was a huge deal. Now's here's hoping I can scrape the grit together to get back on track on the last fasting week. I started out working on skipping 1-2 meals a day and not filling that back in with 'cheat' liquids like ice cream (milk shakes). Until kiddo came over I was doing pretty good sticking to that, but when you go high energy you can faceplant really hard if you don't adjust for that.
I'm about worded out, laterz.
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