Geek Habitat

Milestones this Week:

• I walked at least 1 mile every day this week, in addition to my at home exercises & 3 weekly PT sessions.
• Certain activities in PT were getting a bit boring as once-difficult tasks have become easier. My therapists increased the difficulty of certain exercises, keeping things challenging overall!
• No measurements on flexion or extension taken this week, but I have definitely not lost any ground since last week.
• My Elasto-Gel cool pack arrived, so now I can enjoy the same awesome icing that I receive at the end of each PT session!

Executive Summary of my day:

1. Attended PT from 9:30 AM to 10:40 AM.
2. Went to the movie theatre with Justin to see the 11:40 AM showing of “Hitch,” my first movie since going under the knife! The theatre has fold-down bench type seating and was nearly deserted, so I got to sprawl with my legs straight and Justin as my pillow. (Hubby’s are the best pillows!)
3. Around 4 PM, I convinced Justin to walk with me at the nearby county park. We walked a little over 1.5 miles!

All the activity left me exhausted! By 7 PM, I caught myself nodding off and had to climb into bed, irked by the unnaturally early end to the day. This of course brings us to now, 11:45 PM, with me sitting wide awake in bed until the Benadryl I took kicks in! When Justin came to bed shortly after 11 PM, I woke up with my usual early spring allergies! I love Spring, but I abhor the ash, mountain cedar/juniper, ragweed and other pollens that turn me into a sneezing, running-nosed and scratchy-eyed wreck. I just checked Pollen.com, and as bad as I feel right now, pollen levels are expected to double by Monday. Joy!

Geek Speak, with a knee rehabber twist:
I love my iPod Shuffle, but haven’t found a workable way to use it during my physical therapy (PT) sessions. I am worried I’ll miss an instruction from my physical therapists, or get the excessively long headphone and lanyard cords caught on whatever piece of equipment I’m using at a particular time. I don’t want to be the next weird news headline: “iPod Strangles Woman in Physical Therapy.” (I know Apple sells an arm band for the Shuffle, but I have a moral objection to paying $27 for it!)

The Shuffle has been terrific during my solo 1 mile walks and at home exercises, however! I’m finding myself listening fully to songs I used to instinctively fast foward past when I’m listening via iTunes, my 30 GB iPod or my Squeezebox.