Good morning!
My chair yoga class got cancelled today - instructor ill
. I'll still be doing my PT exercises and walking Gus. Yesterday's walk was wonderful - hip still was injured and at a level 3 of pain, but the leg swung normally in a walking stride instead of peg leg stride and I didn't have any incidences of a pain level 8 during my walk (usually it was about 20 incidences over two miles walk). I hope the hip is still in its proper position now.
Laura, I used to take my bike in the car to a bike path that I would ride - haven't done that for about two years - hope to try it again this summer to see if the new knee and hip will work in the pedaling range for me. I did donate my light road bike to charity and now just have a heavier bike for comfort. We do have some bike commuters living in my neighborhood, but I just don't trust my biking skills in heavy traffic.
Bee, I don't think I can ever claim having two different shoes on by mistake
. Right now I'd be happy being able to bike 1.5 miles, despite having 80 mile days in the past
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Dede, my PT claimed not to be a chiropractor, but she was able to pull on my leg to get it the same length as the other. I was surprised it was an issue at the time as I'm generally not a fan of chiropractors. Sorry about the rain, but glad you're not getting snow instead, which would be about 12 inches with that rainwater! We've had a weird winter with some partial thawing in the rivers and streams, so ice is cracking and blocking water flow resulting in lots of flooding
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Paula, the PT had me on the table and sat right next to my affected hip and my affected leg was placed loose over her shoulder (knee bent at her shoulder). She pulled down towards my other toes at the hip joint and I was instructed to press upwards towards my head with my other leg. Supposedly that evened my hips and the leg placements in the joint. Don't think that's doable by myself at home though
. My exposure to bats at the WRC is a lot less than being in a cave amongst the droppings of thousands of bats and breathing their air. We are also very careful keeping bat supplies clean and assigned to individual patients to not pass anything amongst them. I don't wear a surgical mask, but they are available if something is identified as going through the animals - we do wear them in the laundry room handling everyone's dirty poopy laundry. As far as human epidemics, I am glad to be retired and not in crowded offices or schools these days, but do notice colds going through circus
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Waves to all!
Anita