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GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Today body worker made hitherto good knee good again and made bad knee amazingly more stable but warned it would swell tomorrow and to keep off it as much as possible just for the day ...raised.

No change of waiting till tomorrow, its HUGE. I think its stable because the oedema ( specially for pn) is fluid splinting it!

Sigh. Poor you! Would it help to see the body workers more often?

Are they physiotherapists?

vivatifosi

bugslet wrote: »

Brilliant news on your continued improvement Spirit :T

About 6 years ago I joined Fitbug, which is an organisation promoting health through walking. Essentially, you get a pedomter and download your steps, they set new targets or once you have reached what you feel is achievable, you can then stick at a specific target. I stopped the subscription after about a year and a daily target of 18,000 steps, but continued to wear a pedometer.

Cut to a few years later and a different forum and a few of us decided to get a bit fitter and I recounted the Fitbug experience. The other got pedometers and we posted our steps,w hich was a bit dull, so then we decided to go on virtual walks. To start with we came up with an average stride length, then calculated the total steps of all us over the day to work out the mileage and plotted it on a map. It's somewhat more ad hoc;) now, I take an educated guess as there are only about 5 of us that still do it.

We walked round Europe, Route 66, up the West coast of America, down the East Coast, across Mexico and are currently walking round the coast of Britian. I post photos of the area and any interesting snippets I find. We seem to have developed some alternative personas and some interesting adventures have ensued, it's quite silly but deeply enjoyable - as sort of NP thread in a way.

That sounds brilliant Bugs. I don't have a pedometer but do wear a fitband on my wrist. It is a hard taskmaster. It normally tells me that I walk about five miles a day but don't do enough cardiovascular. On the days that I knacker myself doing Zumba, it tells me that I have done enough cardio but haven't walked far enough (goes off to look for headbutting wall smiley).

lostinrates wrote: »

Bought this for mater



Don't think its going to fit her. She has quite chunky wrists, I don't. ( even if my arms and hand looked weird how ever I tried to snap it.

Chalcedony? Very pretty, I like checkerboard cuts.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Chalcedony? Very pretty, I like checkerboard cuts.

glass! Its from the V and A online shop so not very exclusive

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have just spent £63 on a replacement part to mend a tap! I'm impressed that Grohe still have the parts available after nearly 20 years, but the prices are a bit grotesque. (No pun intended.)

Well, I took my dad for his MRI today. As we didn't want to discuss C, I had the chance to question him on taps on behalf of Lydia. He said:

1. Ceramic disc rather than washer, but most taps these days are ceramic disc anyway.
2. Buy a decent brand, something like Grohe, Franke or Bristan. They are easy to get parts for and replacement ceramic discs from the good names aren't very expensive.
3. Avoid Chinese imports like the plague.
4. Make sure that the fittings are brass (which they likely will be on expensive taps anyway).

Thereafter we had a rather fascinating conversation about close coupled toilets. Men and emotions eh?

lostinrates wrote: »

glass! Its from the V and A online shop so not very exclusive

Wow, it's lovely.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Sigh. Poor you! Would it help to see the body workers more often?

Are they physiotherapists?

Physiotherapists are body workers, as are massage therapists or osteopaths, or anyone whose work is body manipulation/ therapy.


I think fortnight nightly is about right ATM. ( I missed a week so this was three weeks). In a world of luxury and perfection it would help to have something like this more often and something like massage on all the inbetween days. But the world is not perfect. Fortnightly is good. The sessions are quite demanding. My pain threshold is altered on these drugs and I find some of the techniques have the unfortunate side effect of turning the air around me blue and hurting the ears of others in nearby vicinity.

Unusually today I feel quite energetic afterwards. My body worker says its a poor sign that, she likes it if I'm zonked out afterwards.

In a way its quite satisfying to have the difference between before after treatments too.

The other thing we started work on to day was stride lengths. I struggle to bring my leg back part of a stride.....so I sort of goose step ( not quite, I don't kick my legs out, but I do a forward half of stride, not the back half) or shuffle a bit. This is my evasion technique for sciatica, other joint pains and falling ( I'm weakest when my legs are in that portion of the stride). But its causing other problems, now as my soft tissues are adapting to that and no longer allowing me to swing my legs back so much. So we worked on lengthening the stride in safe situations.

I don't think its poor me though, I'm lucky to be making progress again. Pain in that knee will help me take it easier on the requisite day of rest.

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hope that's with chips and peas ... and ketchup or gravy.

Lashings of gravy

No chips, just parsnips / cabbage / carrots. I had 3 helpings of roast potatoes in the previous 2 days so needed to cut out the carbs temporarily (though the pastry was lovely ).

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't think its poor me though, I'm lucky to be making progress again.

Glad to hear you're making progress :T

PasturesNew

http://www.dunelm-mill.com/shop/rudolph-led-doormat-485242

lostinrates

Sheesh, I put the dogs' soft toys through the washing machine and they were grubby before but they have come out STINKING.

Oh well. I'm sure they'll prefer them stinky.

Edit:

And sigh of happiness.....

Knee UP in bed See, if you don't feel the rough you cannot appreciate the relief, and boy does it feel good to get this thing up. If the swelling has come in early so might it go down sooner than expected.


My dogs have been short changed a little but so be it, if there are consequences I'll worry about it tomorrow morning:)

LydiaJ

bugslet wrote: »

I hadn't realised it had been 3 months. You'll probably find that old chestnut of , 'to have good friends, you need to be a good friend', is equally applicable to neighbours.;)

La la, la la la la la la laaaa la, that's when good neighbours become good friends........

Spirit wrote: »

yesterday I picked up a washing up sponge and moved it about 12"then put it down and let go of it, for an encore i pushed a folded tea towel forward on a polished table then made polishing movements.

I was so proud of myself I rang OH to boast of my achievements. hardly Mo Farrar but it is the beginning of getting a reach function back.

:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

Keep us posted about further progress.

Masomnia wrote: »

Now not going to hear about the job till Monday. So fed up of all this.

:mad::mad::mad:

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I think it may be some sort of safety measure as the drawers get very heavy when full of filed paper.

That's the reason they usually have mechanisms to stop you opening more than one drawer at a time - to stop them overbalancing when the drawers are heavy. The ones I've seen do usually have some way of disengaging the thing that stops you pulling the drawers all the way out, though.

Nikkster wrote: »

Bumped into supervisor again. Instead of letting it go at 'Hi' I asked if we could find some time to have a chat (my hands and legs started shaking at this point). Which we did. I was very honest. He listened. We have something of a plan.
Thanks for being somewhere for me to vent last night.

Way to go!! :T:T:T
I am so proud of you for overcoming your fears and doing what you've just done.
Hope the plan works out swimmingly.

Glad we were a useful place to vent. Is there anything else we can do to be encouraging?