So, against part of the advice of a friend who's a professional athlete ("doing too much PT can exacerbate an injury"), but following other of his advice ("increase quantity before increasing resistence"), I
doubled and then tripled up on my PT, which I started a month ago because my knee hurt so bad I could barely walk. I was initially given a green thera-band (easy) and told that I could get a blue band if I improved. Instead I decided I wanted the yellow band (the hardest thera-band) because I'm an over-achiever and wanted to skip blue (it's like the silver medal - no one wants to be #2), which is why I was doing extra PT exercises.
I was all ready last Friday to go in
for my appointment and get my yellow band. Then my fucking therapist
called in sick and my appointment was canceled. So I had it rescheduled
for today and did a bunch more workouts in the mean time.
I get
there, and it's not my therapist, it's some pipsqueak named April. She
didn't even ask to see me do my exercises, just started tying blue
thera-bands around my legs and shit. I was like "wait a minute, the blue
is too easy, I think I need the yellow thera-band". She was like "what
yellow thera-band?" and I was like "the hardest thera-band, the yellow
one." I showed her how the blue thera-and was so easy for me that I
could do my inverted plank and spread my knees wide enough to give birth
(should only be able to pull them a few inches apart).
She
looked at me for about a minute without speaking and then slowly said
"the hardest thera-band IS the blue." I showed her on my tablet that
it's yellow. She said "we don't have yellow here" and I realized I had
somehow mistaken an orange thera-band (stupid easy) I had seen on the
ground in my previous session for yellow.
Then April said "if you could do the exercises with the yellow thera-band you wouldn't be in therapy would you?"
Whatevah, bitch.
So,
I didn't get my yellow thera-band and was instead given a sheet of
paper instructing me how to build a wobble board. The bottom of the paper has a warning that I may get a concussion or serious injury if I fall off the wobble board or close my eyes while on the wobble board. And I have to wear two
blue thera-bands for all my exercises since my PT office DOESN'T HAVE THE FUCKING YELLOW THERA-BAND.
Total. Suck.
I didn't make another appointment.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
kid gloves...but made with real kids
One of my favorite movies these days is In The Loop. And a friend of mine just found one of our favorite scenes on YouTube. Among the other classic lines: "Shut up, Love Actually!" (to a character who looks like a character in the movie Love Actually).
He also found out that it's part of a series called In The Thick of It. Need to watch that too.
I love british humor.
He also found out that it's part of a series called In The Thick of It. Need to watch that too.
I love british humor.
Regina Dugan was right about geeks!
From NPR, 5 Nerds To Watch in 2013:
Regina Dugan says there's a lesson in that. As she told a TED conference last year, "You should be nice to nerds. In fact I'd go so far as to say if you don't already have a nerd in your life you should get one."
One of the reasons I've been slacking on my blog is because I've been hanging out with geeks (not to say I'm not a geek), including my brother Steve, who is in town for a mining conference. I am lucky to have plenty of nerds in my life.
Advantages of hanging out with geeks:
Situation 1: I bought some yogurt covered cherries. The yogurt is actually "chocolate yogurt" which doesn't even exist except in the Sunmaid laboratory. The cherries are near their expiration date and while the cherries are good the chocolate yogurt is not. A geek friend and I are doing experiments to determine the best way to remove the chocolate (yogurt, heating, lemon juice) so I don't have to throw the cherries away but can get rid of the disgusting yogurt.
Situation 2: I'm trying to get Steve to buy a TENS machine because I LOVE mine. He scanned something on my TENS machine and was able to look up the model and web site quicker than I could find the information on Google. He also scanned something on my friend's dishwasher because he wanted to know if it was a model that had been recalled because the dishwasher turned itself on and wouldn't turn off.
Situation 3: We had a massive snow storm on Sunday. A true geek has so many "toys", including snow blowers, that you never have to shovel snow manually.
To be fair, there are some disadvantages:
Situation 1: Eating a cherry that has been soaked in vinegar will probably make you throw up even if the vinegar is effective in removing the chocolate yogurt.
Situation 2: Having easy access to information about a dishwasher model may encourage geeks to take the dishwasher apart to see if they can fix it. Steve's girlfriend jokes that my family takes our friends' faulty machines apart, and, if unable to fix them, leaves. Then the friend has to buy a new dishwasher.
Situation 3: I discovered on Sunday that the snow blower has a tube on the top that you can move to change the direction the snow blows. If you happen to have a friend who is a mischievous geek he may aim the aforementioned snow blower tube at you while you are shoveling snow manually. And then you get a face full of snow. And then the geek friend laughs because you look like a human snow man.
hahaha
Regina Dugan says there's a lesson in that. As she told a TED conference last year, "You should be nice to nerds. In fact I'd go so far as to say if you don't already have a nerd in your life you should get one."
One of the reasons I've been slacking on my blog is because I've been hanging out with geeks (not to say I'm not a geek), including my brother Steve, who is in town for a mining conference. I am lucky to have plenty of nerds in my life.
Advantages of hanging out with geeks:
Situation 1: I bought some yogurt covered cherries. The yogurt is actually "chocolate yogurt" which doesn't even exist except in the Sunmaid laboratory. The cherries are near their expiration date and while the cherries are good the chocolate yogurt is not. A geek friend and I are doing experiments to determine the best way to remove the chocolate (yogurt, heating, lemon juice) so I don't have to throw the cherries away but can get rid of the disgusting yogurt.
Situation 2: I'm trying to get Steve to buy a TENS machine because I LOVE mine. He scanned something on my TENS machine and was able to look up the model and web site quicker than I could find the information on Google. He also scanned something on my friend's dishwasher because he wanted to know if it was a model that had been recalled because the dishwasher turned itself on and wouldn't turn off.
Situation 3: We had a massive snow storm on Sunday. A true geek has so many "toys", including snow blowers, that you never have to shovel snow manually.
To be fair, there are some disadvantages:
Situation 1: Eating a cherry that has been soaked in vinegar will probably make you throw up even if the vinegar is effective in removing the chocolate yogurt.
Situation 2: Having easy access to information about a dishwasher model may encourage geeks to take the dishwasher apart to see if they can fix it. Steve's girlfriend jokes that my family takes our friends' faulty machines apart, and, if unable to fix them, leaves. Then the friend has to buy a new dishwasher.
Situation 3: I discovered on Sunday that the snow blower has a tube on the top that you can move to change the direction the snow blows. If you happen to have a friend who is a mischievous geek he may aim the aforementioned snow blower tube at you while you are shoveling snow manually. And then you get a face full of snow. And then the geek friend laughs because you look like a human snow man.
hahaha
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