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I’m not sure why the picture seems like it goes with this… but hey…it was a breathtaking morning. It is pager patrol week. It is not my FAVORITE week in the whole month but it is what it is. I … Continue reading
Week 4 of Enbrel. This week I got a call from my insurance company asking if I knew about the Enbrel Support Card… and then tried to get credit for THEIR insurance company having anything to do with having that … Continue reading
Okay… I was going to spend today writing about the moron cop who I followed for a dozen blocks today… He never once used his turn signal… gee… I wonder if that means I don’t have to… hmmm HOWEVER… After … Continue reading
Was feeling less than fabulous when I went to be last night. I woosed out on walking around the neighborhood in favor of wrapping myself in Tiger Balm and snuggly blankets. This morning… bright and early out for our walk. … Continue reading
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Okay, today (again?) I decided that I don’t need anybody’s help figuring out how to write the great American RA Story. I have asked for advice and the questions go to /dev/null (the great bit bucket in whoever it is’s … Continue reading
Last year when we went to pick up my bib and runner’s stuff (backpack… goodies…. ) and to see what the ‘expo’ was supposed to be all about… I found a wicked cool booth with T-shirts and other stuff all about John “The Penguin” Bingham. The miracle isn’t that I finished… it is that I had the courage to start…
I frequent his website… it makes me smile.
Today (it’s been kind of a long year) I signed up for the 100 day challenge and was fortunate enough to be able to back date the chart because of yoga and my pissed off walk from yesterday at lunch time. So I have 98 days to go… I think I will make it.
I think a lot about the quote that sent me to his website, though. I’m not sure that miracle is quite where I am ready to go with it… But starting is what matters.
Every day I start. Each and every day. Some days I start where I left off the day before, but every day I start. And so can you. No matter what it is that you want to accomplish… loosing 5 pounds… loosing 50 pounds… writing a book (yeah mom…. I’m listening to what I’m saying)… learning a language… getting out of bed… whatever it is you want to do… in life… in your day… in the next ten minutes.
Sometimes (believe me I know that sometimes it is what I want to accomplish in the next ten minutes!) it really is that “the task you must do is the near” (Douglas Malloch). The hardest part almost all the time is getting started… once you have started, you are halfway there.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately… go figure. I started out thinking about the way doctors do (or maybe don’t) learn bedside manner. I have dealt with more than one doctor in recent years who apparently either clepped … Continue reading
I am done feeling sorry for myself. It usually doesn’t last long and everyone who poked and prodded me helped a lot. I wrote quite a lot today and after the rain let up I decided that I really needed … Continue reading
Okay… Good news… Enbrel seems to be agreeing with me (at least for now). I had some itchies at the the injection site. I was light headed for about an hour. I had a headache the next day. The light headed was probably because I hadn’t eaten. The headache Sean said usually isn’t Enbrel, but Enbrel says it is common. I had one.. whatever it was, I had one yesterday.
Yesterday my mom kind of poked at me because I was talking about Tai Chi for Seniors because I’m only forty(mumble mumble)… he he he … I’m 45 and that isn’t even 50 yet and that SURELY isn’t senior. HOWEVER… given that sometimes I feel achey and tired… I figure that if I read a book designed for people older than I am… when I have those days… I can stop and think… hey, I can fall back and take even the slowness of Tai Chi just a little more slowly and a little more gently.
I also explained to her what squishy is… kind of. The doctor tells me that my joints are squishy. I believe her. She went to doctor for a really long time… I figure she knows. I can’t feel the squish she talks about. My reference to the squishy-ness is… my one pair of running shoes doesn’t fit my toes without hurting so I wear my other pair. My knuckles don’t bend quite right. My wrist aches a little bit differently. My hip or my knee doesn’t feel right. The squishy is swelling (which is why my toes don’t fit my shoes quite right) but not like I got hit with a baseball swelling that is a bump that is big and you can see… more all over swelling. Don’t get me wrong… I can sometimes actually SEE the swelling. My knee has gotten bad enough that I have HAD to wear one of my really big pairs of sweats because my jeans wouldn’t go over it… it was almost twice the size of my other knee. Mostly I feel it, though, rather than see it obviously.
And today (as is the title of the entry) we went for a walk. 8 miles… to the library and back… Stopped off and the pharmacy… picked up Tiger Balm Ultra (it’s white, not red) and warmer and longer lasting… I love this stuff. Right now, I’m feeling the 8 miles… my hip is a little bit sore and I feel like I could nap a week… but I feel pretty good and my “tight” running shoes are fitting fantastically…
It was in the 40s when we left home, it was in the 60s when we got home… I was sweaty BIG time by the time we got home (and for some reason when I get sweaty… my bra… love my Danskin bras… gets soggy and when I sit down I freeze… so hot bath and now a well deserved rest before we go pick up the squirrel)
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I’m not entirely sure I like the day after Christmas shopping… it is… kind of… nutsy. Parking is a nightmare. People are crazy. Lines are horrendous… and it was probably one of the best days I have ever spent.
Amandya didn’t ACTUALLY get up for my 5:30 Walmart excursion. She didn’t ACTUALLY make it out of bed until almost 11:00.
She wasn’t thrilled about getting out of the house. She doesn’t really “do” people even on a good day and she has been a bit on the moody side the last few days. But I knew getting out would do her good… and she had several gift cards and Christmas cach that needed using so off we went.
Rue 21 at the outlets she got T-shirts
Disney store at the outlets I got a double Dry technical shirt with mickey on the sleeve.
Journey… socks
off to Target to see if I could find the Disney CD for half of… and of course by after noon it was all gone. sigh…
Barnes and Nobel… calendar and journal… and a for dummies book for the squirrel…
Walmart (again? yeah, different one) so she could buy herself a mini-fridge and I FOUND MY SOAPS!!! wooohoo… I didn’t think I was going to find them but I did. and another doggy toy for peanut. On our way back to the car, Squirrely was trying to conserve energy (yeah… she’s a little nut) and hopped on the front of the cart and I pushed her butt to the far end of the parking lot, up hill, laughing the whole way.
It really was a girls day out. Adam was playing WOW and Runescape (something about a crab hat that has a santa hat on it… not TOTALLY sure… ) and Bear, Ron and Angela stayed home hanging. Bear took down all of the outside Christmas decorations so they don’t get wet again… sliced open his finger and really made a mess of it all… but they are away and the yard looks naked… sigh…
Pizza for dinner. and now just… hanging out… watching Gandalf the Gray getting snowed on.
A decidedly wonderful day.
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