PT and groceries....
Apr. 14th, 2020 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkThis is my life, now. Both bands cancelled, Livingston probably off until fall, FCB still trying to figure out if we can play anywhere this summer (ans. is probably not, unless the gov. says they can open school buildings this summer....); library filing done as long as school is. I have told the librarian that if she wants help this summer, once they open the buildings to staff, that she can call me.
PT this morning has gotten really specific about which muscles they want to work on -- lots of very small, very specific, movements, at least some of which are not replicable at home. Others are doable, but I need to move J's crap from where he's been letting it pile up. OTOH, they've pretty much determined that there's nothing structurally wrong with my shoulder, it's just that the muscle groups are not balanced properly. Which is theoretically fixable. With time. So I may get an extension of the PT. whee?
Then I went to the grocers. Meijer had a couple of things I've been looking for - corned beef, and small bottles of hand sanitizer (the "new" bottle that J had in his desk drawer had a expiry date of 1/18 on it, so it was probably better than nothing, but who knows how much....) Still no rice or dried beans, pasta still low, no flour, low on sugar and canned veg. Non-dairy milk stock low or non-existent, both shelf stable and fridged. Frozen food cases still low on stock, but things are starting to come in - there was one package of the chimis in the freezer when I went by. Plenty of fresh veg, and the fresh meat cases were reasonably full. Enough of the things on my list weren't there that it was worth a stop at the local grocer, where I was able to get all of those items (I'd have made it my first stop, but I know they don't have some of the things on the list. Meijer usually has them all.) They had no rice or dried beans, but some pasta; freezer case was pretty well stocked except frozen chicken and pizzas. Didn't go down the baking aisle.
Gas is ridiculously cheap. I filled up at the corner station - I'd much rather have a gas station on that corner than a closed/abandoned gas station - for less than $20. They were fairly busy -- there's still a lot of people out and about. On the nice days last week, I saw a Corvette driving club go by, and a flock of Harleys, and heard a bunch of other people out in their hot rods.
We did get the strawberry bed weeded last week, and got a lot of branches picked up. Then we had high winds yesterday, and a lot more came down. The smaller, later, daffodils are blooming, as are the grape hyacinths and the other blue-purple flowers in the doorside garden (there are four or five varieties in there, and I don't remember them all). I wasn't able to get the E garden weeded before it got cold and wet again, and they're telling us that it will be cold (for April values, so mid40s during the day, below freezing overnight) until next week. sigh. I'll get to it eventually - it's next on the list.
PT this morning has gotten really specific about which muscles they want to work on -- lots of very small, very specific, movements, at least some of which are not replicable at home. Others are doable, but I need to move J's crap from where he's been letting it pile up. OTOH, they've pretty much determined that there's nothing structurally wrong with my shoulder, it's just that the muscle groups are not balanced properly. Which is theoretically fixable. With time. So I may get an extension of the PT. whee?
Then I went to the grocers. Meijer had a couple of things I've been looking for - corned beef, and small bottles of hand sanitizer (the "new" bottle that J had in his desk drawer had a expiry date of 1/18 on it, so it was probably better than nothing, but who knows how much....) Still no rice or dried beans, pasta still low, no flour, low on sugar and canned veg. Non-dairy milk stock low or non-existent, both shelf stable and fridged. Frozen food cases still low on stock, but things are starting to come in - there was one package of the chimis in the freezer when I went by. Plenty of fresh veg, and the fresh meat cases were reasonably full. Enough of the things on my list weren't there that it was worth a stop at the local grocer, where I was able to get all of those items (I'd have made it my first stop, but I know they don't have some of the things on the list. Meijer usually has them all.) They had no rice or dried beans, but some pasta; freezer case was pretty well stocked except frozen chicken and pizzas. Didn't go down the baking aisle.
Gas is ridiculously cheap. I filled up at the corner station - I'd much rather have a gas station on that corner than a closed/abandoned gas station - for less than $20. They were fairly busy -- there's still a lot of people out and about. On the nice days last week, I saw a Corvette driving club go by, and a flock of Harleys, and heard a bunch of other people out in their hot rods.
We did get the strawberry bed weeded last week, and got a lot of branches picked up. Then we had high winds yesterday, and a lot more came down. The smaller, later, daffodils are blooming, as are the grape hyacinths and the other blue-purple flowers in the doorside garden (there are four or five varieties in there, and I don't remember them all). I wasn't able to get the E garden weeded before it got cold and wet again, and they're telling us that it will be cold (for April values, so mid40s during the day, below freezing overnight) until next week. sigh. I'll get to it eventually - it's next on the list.
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Date: 2020-04-15 01:40 am (UTC)K.
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Date: 2020-04-15 12:38 pm (UTC)About six months ago, in a combination of extensive digging in the garden (replanting irises and peonies) and a step up in weights on a couple of exercises in the gym, I "twanged" something in the front of my right shoulder. And it didn't get better. As these things sometimes do, it got worse. It got so bad that I couldn't get anything off a high shelf without lots of pain (at the 'stop and breathe' level).
Whatever I twanged affected the stability of my shoulder, and so the other muscles started tensing up to keep it from hurting, and it just escalated.
The first five or so weeks of PT were just getting all those muscles to loosen up so they could determine where the original damage occurred, and then they can work on that. There's been a lot of general shoulder work, but now they're targeting the muscles at the very back of the shoulder blade, and the ones under the arm which need to be balanced for the shoulder to work properly. (The triceps thing was a red herring, as it turns out.)
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Date: 2020-04-15 01:46 am (UTC)K.
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Date: 2020-04-15 12:57 pm (UTC)