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Monday, June 30
Jul. 1st, 2025 01:21 amToday I am grateful for:
Nice weather. Sunny and warm, not too hot.
Good sleep.
I was able to get to my physiotherapy appointment without too much stress, on time for a change.
Medical stuff is always a little weird. Having someone look at your body, to pay close attention to you, when they are basically a stranger.
I spent an hour and a half with a person who I'd never met before, doing movements so he could see what was going on, being touched, and so on.
I know they do this professionally, and it did not feel creepy at all, it's just odd, when you think about it.
So, he saw a few things that I had suspected, that I have a lot of tightness in the lower back on the right side, that in general I have weak glutes and not enough stability in my core, and that my right ankle is very stiff (I had always thought of it as having a weak left ankle, but maybe my right ankle is stiff from compensating).
He used the electrical stimulation thingy on my lower back, and I loved it. He said the only people who don't like it are electricians, because they can't relax with it being more or less a type of electrocution.
When I talked to my Sweetie about it, he said he'd had it a long time ago, and hated it. He's also done electrical work.
So, I have some pretty straight forward exercises to do, and an appointment to go back in three weeks to see if I'm ready to move on to progressively harder ones.
I really hope that I can break this ongoing cycle of things hurting.
I got groceries, a pretty big haul this time. Every so often, we are somehow out of or low on just about everything, in spite of me getting groceries every week.
I came home and my Sweetie had already let everyone out into their bigger pastures, and he helped me put away groceries.
Then we sat outside on the swing for a while, in the most lovely evening weather, until it was time to bring everyone back in.
Then we watched "Better Man", the biopic of Robbie Williams. His story was pretty familiar, in that so many celebrities go through the same cycle of addiction, but it was such an interestingly filmed creation, with an absolutely astounding dance sequence. You almost don't need to know who he is to enjoy it.
Nice weather. Sunny and warm, not too hot.
Good sleep.
I was able to get to my physiotherapy appointment without too much stress, on time for a change.
Medical stuff is always a little weird. Having someone look at your body, to pay close attention to you, when they are basically a stranger.
I spent an hour and a half with a person who I'd never met before, doing movements so he could see what was going on, being touched, and so on.
I know they do this professionally, and it did not feel creepy at all, it's just odd, when you think about it.
So, he saw a few things that I had suspected, that I have a lot of tightness in the lower back on the right side, that in general I have weak glutes and not enough stability in my core, and that my right ankle is very stiff (I had always thought of it as having a weak left ankle, but maybe my right ankle is stiff from compensating).
He used the electrical stimulation thingy on my lower back, and I loved it. He said the only people who don't like it are electricians, because they can't relax with it being more or less a type of electrocution.
When I talked to my Sweetie about it, he said he'd had it a long time ago, and hated it. He's also done electrical work.
So, I have some pretty straight forward exercises to do, and an appointment to go back in three weeks to see if I'm ready to move on to progressively harder ones.
I really hope that I can break this ongoing cycle of things hurting.
I got groceries, a pretty big haul this time. Every so often, we are somehow out of or low on just about everything, in spite of me getting groceries every week.
I came home and my Sweetie had already let everyone out into their bigger pastures, and he helped me put away groceries.
Then we sat outside on the swing for a while, in the most lovely evening weather, until it was time to bring everyone back in.
Then we watched "Better Man", the biopic of Robbie Williams. His story was pretty familiar, in that so many celebrities go through the same cycle of addiction, but it was such an interestingly filmed creation, with an absolutely astounding dance sequence. You almost don't need to know who he is to enjoy it.
