New Challenges

Today was the first time in over a week (except therapy on Tuesday) when I have had to take anything for knee-related pain.  It doesn't feel very good today, so I'll shower and heating-pad it until time for therapy.  Yesterday I would have said that I expect to be at 110 today.  Now I am not at all sure.  What happened?? Dunno.  It felt great last night.  I wasn't on it yesterday.  Discouraging, though, and I have that girl today, so it's less likely that I will make my goal, anyway.  :(

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Woot woot!  112!  (See, what do I know?) True to what I expected, when she first measured it, she said it was 106.  But this time I said, "Nah, I can do better than that" so she let me get set and tried it again. Yay!  Other activities included the half-cylinder thing, slant board (which was a big issue with my ankle, but simple for this), two kinds of balance boards (front to back and side to side, which was harder).  The tough one was the BOSU ball. I had to step onto the ball side with my bad leg, step down the other side with my good leg, then step back over.  The step down was a little ouchy, but the step back was darn near impossible.  I was basically pulling myself up on the parallel bars to get back.  Then leg press and hamstring machines, then stretching.

She had never seen anyone use an iPod during stretching before.  That's kind of surprising to me, but it does work.  I've used it for years at the dentist, too (the longer they drill, the louder I turn it).  "Healing rain, it comes with fire...."  Sometimes that's very true.