One month into physical therapy and my feet still suck, apparently. Tried working out today but my pain was 10 out of 10... which pretty much prevents me from doing anything but sitting on my butt. I did upper body lifting. and managed some walking before the pain shot up to a 10 (started out probably at a 6 or 7 (worked out anyway because im stubborn)- and all i had done this morning before that was work, which is just sitting at a desk for 4 hours... so why would that make them cramp and hurt?????)
It's so annoying. I could have lost weight by now, if only I could get some decent workouts in. But no, my feet have to suck and hate me.
I can barely walk around the house right now because it hurts to put weight on my feet.
I thought they were getting better. I told my PT that yesterday during my re-eval. But they made a liar out of me today. Damn feet.
I'm really frustrated today.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
my silly body.
had PT again this morning. had a re-eval, which was interesting. my ankles are getting stronger and i have a lot more ROM, but still not enough and im still weaker than i should be. i got a new exercise to do- which is all balancing on one foot at a time (while i pull a weighted cable across in front of me). hahahahahahaha what a joke! i have no balance. my ankles were wobbling all over the place and i kept on tipping over. after that my legs and ankles are so tired.
it didn't help that i couldn't sleep last night.
which was SO frustrating because i fell asleep at Nathan's, or at least was about to. so I left his house thinking I'd be able to crash as soon as i got home. Nope. of course not. i went to bed, couldn't sleep, got up a couple times, finally went back to bed around 2:30, tossed and turned all night. i was so anxious, i kept freaking out and i have no idea why. i'd have to lay there and remind myself to breathe deeply and slowly and to relax. at one point i yelled at myself "ANDI! STOP THIS! RELAX ALREADY!" (it's a good thing im home alone this week so my parents didn't hear me yelling at myself!) i think i finally got to sleep around 5.
i called him this morning and said "we need to get married. i seem to only be able to sleep when im with you"
343 more days!
saw my sports dr this morning (before PT- so i had to get up at 7, after being up all night. blech). got a prescription for the bone density scan!
I asked my PT, Kim, when she thinks i could run if my bones end up being strong enough.
She said that at the 6 week mark i might be ready to start working my way into it(doing things on the trampoline and mini jumps on the total gym to get used to the bouncing movements). my 6 week mark would probably be when i get the results of the scan back, which is perfect timing, which makes me even more hopeful that God is making it all work out and that i'll be running soon.
i have a good feeling about my bones. maybe i'm just trying to be hopeful and that's why. but i don't know- i can't explain it. i just feel like my bones are going to be okay.
i want to work out today.
but i'm really tired.
i'm definitely too tired to focus at work, so im not even going to try.
annoying.
it didn't help that i couldn't sleep last night.
which was SO frustrating because i fell asleep at Nathan's, or at least was about to. so I left his house thinking I'd be able to crash as soon as i got home. Nope. of course not. i went to bed, couldn't sleep, got up a couple times, finally went back to bed around 2:30, tossed and turned all night. i was so anxious, i kept freaking out and i have no idea why. i'd have to lay there and remind myself to breathe deeply and slowly and to relax. at one point i yelled at myself "ANDI! STOP THIS! RELAX ALREADY!" (it's a good thing im home alone this week so my parents didn't hear me yelling at myself!) i think i finally got to sleep around 5.
i called him this morning and said "we need to get married. i seem to only be able to sleep when im with you"
343 more days!
saw my sports dr this morning (before PT- so i had to get up at 7, after being up all night. blech). got a prescription for the bone density scan!
I asked my PT, Kim, when she thinks i could run if my bones end up being strong enough.
She said that at the 6 week mark i might be ready to start working my way into it(doing things on the trampoline and mini jumps on the total gym to get used to the bouncing movements). my 6 week mark would probably be when i get the results of the scan back, which is perfect timing, which makes me even more hopeful that God is making it all work out and that i'll be running soon.
i have a good feeling about my bones. maybe i'm just trying to be hopeful and that's why. but i don't know- i can't explain it. i just feel like my bones are going to be okay.
i want to work out today.
but i'm really tired.
i'm definitely too tired to focus at work, so im not even going to try.
annoying.
Monday, June 22, 2009
GTCA
Follow up to the PCR song. This one is also hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bF2QalUj1Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bF2QalUj1Y&feature=related
Saturday, June 20, 2009
The PCR song
this is SO funny.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yPkxCLads
1:40 is hilarious.
and "it's amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yPkxCLads
1:40 is hilarious.
and "it's amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do"
Friday, June 19, 2009
stumped
the physical therapists are stumped. they can't figure out what exactly is wrong. Don today said it's possible nerve related. he said my symptoms aren't consistant w. plantar faciitis, and even tendonitis wouldn't cause the severe cramping in my feet that i have.
i told him they've been feeling better- still cramping but not as intense- but that it's difficult to tell if it's because of the PT or because I've cut back on the exercise and stopped doing things that aggrivated it in the past (or if it's related to the orthotics im trying). So before my next appt on Tuesday, I have permission to try doing things again to see if it's any better! Yay! bring on the treadmill w. an incline! bring on more time w. things! woo!!
hopefully i do okay with it. i want to improve... i feel like i'm a bad patient if i don't.
he thought about having a stress test and then getting blood taken immediately after to test my levels of stuff then. i guess that's a possibility but aren't stress tests done by running on a treadmill?
I'll run if they want me to.... but i think that would be frowned upon.
i told him they've been feeling better- still cramping but not as intense- but that it's difficult to tell if it's because of the PT or because I've cut back on the exercise and stopped doing things that aggrivated it in the past (or if it's related to the orthotics im trying). So before my next appt on Tuesday, I have permission to try doing things again to see if it's any better! Yay! bring on the treadmill w. an incline! bring on more time w. things! woo!!
hopefully i do okay with it. i want to improve... i feel like i'm a bad patient if i don't.
he thought about having a stress test and then getting blood taken immediately after to test my levels of stuff then. i guess that's a possibility but aren't stress tests done by running on a treadmill?
I'll run if they want me to.... but i think that would be frowned upon.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
forearm stand
I can finally do this.
I got headstand pretty quickly, so I don't know why I had so much trouble with this one.
Next goal: scorpion
Saturday, June 13, 2009
go away
ive been feeling down today (and it isn't because the wings didn't win last night... i'm over it- pittsburgh wanted it more and outplayed us).
i thought taebo would help, but it didn't. just made me more tired.
brandon and jenny are having people over today. i thought it was next saturday but when brandon called me to see where i was, i still didn't feel like driving out there to be around people. (i didn't tell him that though)
tomorrow is a dissection for anatomy lab. even though im not currently a TA it really doesn't matter. Once a TA, always a TA. I was going to go tomorrow because I'd get to dissect ribcages which are one of my favorite things to dissect, but also because Jayme is going to be there and i haven't seen her since finals. but my heart isn't in it. maybe i'll stop in there. i need to go to the MLS lab and autoclave and do other things, and i want to go to the gym, so i'll be there. I don't know.. i just don't want to be around people right now. i want to hide away.
Nathan is the exception. he's working tonight though, so i cant hang out with him. Tomorrow night, though. So that's good.
i thought taebo would help, but it didn't. just made me more tired.
brandon and jenny are having people over today. i thought it was next saturday but when brandon called me to see where i was, i still didn't feel like driving out there to be around people. (i didn't tell him that though)
tomorrow is a dissection for anatomy lab. even though im not currently a TA it really doesn't matter. Once a TA, always a TA. I was going to go tomorrow because I'd get to dissect ribcages which are one of my favorite things to dissect, but also because Jayme is going to be there and i haven't seen her since finals. but my heart isn't in it. maybe i'll stop in there. i need to go to the MLS lab and autoclave and do other things, and i want to go to the gym, so i'll be there. I don't know.. i just don't want to be around people right now. i want to hide away.
Nathan is the exception. he's working tonight though, so i cant hang out with him. Tomorrow night, though. So that's good.
what does work and my feet have in common? They both suck.
my feet hurt today :( i haven't exercised since Wednesday, so I haven't even earned this cramping. jerks.
hopefully i can get through some kickboxing...
there have been tons of charts at work I haven't been able to find in months. it's been SO annoying. I found about 30 of them on Robb's desk today. Charts that have been discharged last november that he hasn't filled out yet. Really, Robb? Are you really going to remember their measurements and if they achieved their long term goals? I mean, seriously. Good thing I'm an internal auditor and can't get them in trouble. This is ridiculous.
Oh, and Vikki hasn't updated my binder since May 22nd, so all of the new patients since then... I can't audit their charts because I dont know who they are yet! COME ON PEOPLE! she's supposed to do that every Monday. Um...
I'm glad I won't work there forever. This isn't my career. I have to remind myself that everytime I go in.
hopefully i can get through some kickboxing...
there have been tons of charts at work I haven't been able to find in months. it's been SO annoying. I found about 30 of them on Robb's desk today. Charts that have been discharged last november that he hasn't filled out yet. Really, Robb? Are you really going to remember their measurements and if they achieved their long term goals? I mean, seriously. Good thing I'm an internal auditor and can't get them in trouble. This is ridiculous.
Oh, and Vikki hasn't updated my binder since May 22nd, so all of the new patients since then... I can't audit their charts because I dont know who they are yet! COME ON PEOPLE! she's supposed to do that every Monday. Um...
I'm glad I won't work there forever. This isn't my career. I have to remind myself that everytime I go in.
Friday, June 12, 2009
friday
i had PT at 7am. yuck. i dont really like 7am. which is annoying because i USED to be a morning person.
my ROM in my ankles is slightly improving. subjectively, i can't tell a difference yet, but hopefully soon. she added forward lunges to my exercises and my feet hated that. :/
i'm tired.
i really need to start looking into my internship interviews. the whole thing freaks me out though... i keep putting it off.
tonight is the last hockey game of the season. whoever wins tonight wins the Stanley cup.
AHHHHHH!
we'll win. we have more depth than Pittsburgh. they have 2 good players that seem to carry their team. how they got this far is beyond me. all of our players are good. our defensemen even score regularly. our goalie has gotten assists.
so yeah.
GO WINGS!
my ROM in my ankles is slightly improving. subjectively, i can't tell a difference yet, but hopefully soon. she added forward lunges to my exercises and my feet hated that. :/
i'm tired.
i really need to start looking into my internship interviews. the whole thing freaks me out though... i keep putting it off.
tonight is the last hockey game of the season. whoever wins tonight wins the Stanley cup.
AHHHHHH!
we'll win. we have more depth than Pittsburgh. they have 2 good players that seem to carry their team. how they got this far is beyond me. all of our players are good. our defensemen even score regularly. our goalie has gotten assists.
so yeah.
GO WINGS!
Monday, June 8, 2009
coughing
i was pretty much asleep. then another coughing fit started and i almost threw up i was coughing so hard. this has been a common thing this week. Annoying. The past two days, Ive felt well enough during the day to not need the cough medicine, and since it knocks me out (ie: sleeping all day and night), i have gladly not taken it. However, the coughing comes back at night. I do not understand why. Nathan thinks maybe its because I get tired and my body has a harder time fighting it off. I was at Nathan's house Saturday night when it happened. It wouldn't stop and I could hardly catch my breath. I almost threw up in his living room, in front of his parents. Lovely, no?
I'm considering skipping philosophy in the morning. I'm not too afraid of coughing too much during class, since, as i've said, the coughing has only been bad at night lately, but rather because it's 12:35 am and I'm still coughing (i just took the codeine cough medicine... so i should be asleep once i stop coughing. Thank you, codeine). I have to get up at 6:30 to get ready for class. This leaves me less than 6 hours of sleep right before a day when I'm on campus for 13 hours. This does not sound like a good idea. I feel bad skipping class though, since I missed the majority of it on Wednesday. and because it's an accelerated class, missing one lecture is the same as missing an entire weeks worth of lectures. So basically I'll be missing 2 weeks worth of classes.
So. I don't know. Maybe i'll try waking up at 6:30 and decide then when I know how tired i am.
stupid bronchitis
I'm considering skipping philosophy in the morning. I'm not too afraid of coughing too much during class, since, as i've said, the coughing has only been bad at night lately, but rather because it's 12:35 am and I'm still coughing (i just took the codeine cough medicine... so i should be asleep once i stop coughing. Thank you, codeine). I have to get up at 6:30 to get ready for class. This leaves me less than 6 hours of sleep right before a day when I'm on campus for 13 hours. This does not sound like a good idea. I feel bad skipping class though, since I missed the majority of it on Wednesday. and because it's an accelerated class, missing one lecture is the same as missing an entire weeks worth of lectures. So basically I'll be missing 2 weeks worth of classes.
So. I don't know. Maybe i'll try waking up at 6:30 and decide then when I know how tired i am.
stupid bronchitis
Saturday, June 6, 2009
KRONWALL!
Tonight was game 5 against Pittsburgh in the finals. Going into this game, the series was tied 2-2.
We shut them out 5-0!!
and... KRONWALL SCORED!!
I hate Pittsburgh. more than any other team. (except maybe Anaheim... so they might be tied) Their players are evil, hot-tempered, and overrated. and I am so looking forward to defeating them again this year (we played them in the finals last year, too- Detroit won, of course!)
we play again on Tuesday. If Detroit wins Tuesday... WE WIN THE STANLEY CUP!
Pittsburgh was so desperate tonight- check out the penalties from tonight's game:
Penalty Summary
1st Period
Detroit tripping - 2 min 7:16, N. Kronwall (oh, kronwall... haha. objectively though- it was a really lame call on the refs part. and im not the only one who thinks so)
Pittsburgh interference with goaltender - 2 min 19:39, C. Kunitz
2nd Period
Pittsburgh slashing - 2 min 5:53, S. Gonchar
Pittsburgh elbowing - 2 min 6:48, E. Malkin
Pittsburgh roughing - 2 min 13:50, C. Kunitz
Pittsburgh slashing - 2 min 17:37, S. Crosby
Pittsburgh slashing - 2 min 17:57, M. Talbot
3rd Period
Detroit roughing - 2 min 1:53, M. Hossa
Pittsburgh hooking - 2 min 7:14, E. Malkin
Pittsburgh high sticking - 2 min 15:50, P. Dupuis
Pittsburgh misconduct - 10 min 15:50, C. Adams
Pittsburgh cross check - 2 min 18:08, E. Malkin
Pittsburgh misconduct - 10 min 18:08, M. Cooke
Detroit misconduct - 10 min 18:08, B. Lebda
Pittsburgh misconduct - 10 min 18:08, M. Talbot
We shut them out 5-0!!
and... KRONWALL SCORED!!
I hate Pittsburgh. more than any other team. (except maybe Anaheim... so they might be tied) Their players are evil, hot-tempered, and overrated. and I am so looking forward to defeating them again this year (we played them in the finals last year, too- Detroit won, of course!)
we play again on Tuesday. If Detroit wins Tuesday... WE WIN THE STANLEY CUP!
Pittsburgh was so desperate tonight- check out the penalties from tonight's game:
Penalty Summary
1st Period
Detroit tripping - 2 min 7:16, N. Kronwall (oh, kronwall... haha. objectively though- it was a really lame call on the refs part. and im not the only one who thinks so)
Pittsburgh interference with goaltender - 2 min 19:39, C. Kunitz
2nd Period
Pittsburgh slashing - 2 min 5:53, S. Gonchar
Pittsburgh elbowing - 2 min 6:48, E. Malkin
Pittsburgh roughing - 2 min 13:50, C. Kunitz
Pittsburgh slashing - 2 min 17:37, S. Crosby
Pittsburgh slashing - 2 min 17:57, M. Talbot
3rd Period
Detroit roughing - 2 min 1:53, M. Hossa
Pittsburgh hooking - 2 min 7:14, E. Malkin
Pittsburgh high sticking - 2 min 15:50, P. Dupuis
Pittsburgh misconduct - 10 min 15:50, C. Adams
Pittsburgh cross check - 2 min 18:08, E. Malkin
Pittsburgh misconduct - 10 min 18:08, M. Cooke
Detroit misconduct - 10 min 18:08, B. Lebda
Pittsburgh misconduct - 10 min 18:08, M. Talbot
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
poor little lungs
i have viral bronchitis. :(
i finally went to the dr today and he gave me cough syrup w. codeine. and its the only thing that has really subdued the coughing. nothing else has in 5 days.
i finally went to the dr today and he gave me cough syrup w. codeine. and its the only thing that has really subdued the coughing. nothing else has in 5 days.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
weakness
I had my first PT appt today. Went well. I'm more screwed up than i thought! or at least- in differnet ways. I have very very limited range of motion (ROM) in my ankles, and i'm very weak on the sides of my ankles with adduction and abduction. my hips are also very weak. I walk weird because of the limited ROM in my ankles. I'm short 75 degrees in dorsi flexion.
i distribute my weigh unevenly because of my twisted tibias. my ankles and the joints in my feet are tight.
i could barely stand on one leg at a time, especially when she wanted me to squat with one leg. my weak ankles were moving all over the place trying to keep me upright. i could only manage a couple calf raises on each side before my feet cramped up.
because this has been chronic, she thinks that one thing started and then my body tried to compensate by doing something else, which made something else compensate, etc. she thinks orthotics, later on, will help. but she says we need to get the strength and ROM back into my legs so that i can support myself as much as possible w.out orthotics.
i distribute my weigh unevenly because of my twisted tibias. my ankles and the joints in my feet are tight.
i could barely stand on one leg at a time, especially when she wanted me to squat with one leg. my weak ankles were moving all over the place trying to keep me upright. i could only manage a couple calf raises on each side before my feet cramped up.
because this has been chronic, she thinks that one thing started and then my body tried to compensate by doing something else, which made something else compensate, etc. she thinks orthotics, later on, will help. but she says we need to get the strength and ROM back into my legs so that i can support myself as much as possible w.out orthotics.
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