rissymonster: (Bubbleses)
Per the threat of the PT that she'd send me for a cortisone shot (ugh) if I didn't improve, I'm off arm intensive exercises for the next week or so, including biking down the pothole-laden streets of Oakland and Berkeley. I think allowable exercises are down to walking, stationary bike, and water aerobics. Yeehaw.

However, I did meet more mylastnames in the PT's office on Monday--a young woman who's just had knee surgery and her dad. She signed in right after me, and we are seeing the same PT. Our handwriting is also fairly similar, which was a little eerie. We compared surgery scars (mine have healed nicely, so I recommended the vitamin e rubbing to her) and chatted briefly. We could be distantly related: their relatives are from Ohio most recently, but my father's dad (Irish Catholic) got disowned by his family when he married my grandmother (Irish Protestant), so knowledge about that side of the family is spotty at best. So very hateful and dumb: I remember my grandmother telling me that the family's priest had told my grandfather his kids would be bastards.
rissymonster: (trapeze)
The acupuncturist wants me to avoid spicy and heating-generating (from a chi-perspective) foods, and these are the stuff that makes my diet go. Luckily, wasabi seems to be ok. But acu-dude winced visibly when I described last weekend's one-two birthday party punch: the 30 year old's party was at a tasty (and spicy as all get out) Jamaican restaurant in West Oakland on Friday eve, and the 1 year old's dol sang was at a Korean restaurant Saturday. So, stuff me full of tofu and cucumbers and green tea for a while.

Wednesday's PT session featured both the domestic and martial flare-up contributors--the physical therapist critiqued my knitting technique (verdict: my knitting form needs major work) and let me do one run-through of the first jo kata on Wednesday with a mini-jo, after which she said said: "That's so cool.... Don't do that for a while, though." Although I've been sitting out large chunks of aikido classes of late and not knitting, the pain isn't going away really. Filing hurt today. Filing? Should not hurt. Today, she threatened to put my arm in a sling to make me rest. I told her maybe we'd consider that after the B-squatch's test Sunday. Oh, and the softball game Monday (we have a bye the following week, so this might work out).

I need to exercise; my weight's not great, my aerobic fitness level is craptastic, and my blood pressure's in that not-so-good creeping towards 140-90 again. Sounds like it's gonna be a lot of exercise biking for a while though. Any of the locals want to walk around the lake, say next Thursday?
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The clock is now ticking on my (right) hand/forearm's 15 minutes of fame. The "glove" is actually a reindeer sock.

In other news, my forearms are getting all tendonitis-y (e.g. trying to stretch out for the hand-holding triggered some ouchy), and our dojo cranial sacral guy has indicated that I might benefit from rolfing. Others have mentioned acupuncture.

As though to trigger me into further action, my back got progressively achier throughout the day yesterday, and when I laid down with some ministrations from Bob (hot toddy + hot water bottle) I slept for approx. 18 hours last night/this morning/this afternoon.

Have any of y'all been rolfed or acupunctured, and if so, do you have recommendations for either/both (for practitioners, preferably in the Bay Area)? I have tendon-y type tightness to varying degrees in both legs, both forearms, and my lower back and shoulders/neck get periodically achy.

In a strange way, I generally feel really strong and am generally in ok (not great) shape, but the migrating pain is less than ideal.

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