Thanks all. Trying to figure out the insurance stuff now, but definitely ready to get some function back!
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Thanks all. Trying to figure out the insurance stuff now, but definitely ready to get some function back!
Hey Kit - long time no see - are you OK? we're here if you need to talk, even not about bicycles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
Awwww man, that really sucks, Pax! Aging is not for the faint-of-heart, is it? You were smart to go to the doc, though, and sounds like she might be a good proactive one. Hang in there! The targeted PT could be just the ticket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
I don't like the sound of this post. You are remembered and missed here!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
My PT once handed me a printout with a few new exercises and said, "Here. I'm giving you these because I know you'll do them." He was a personal trainer as well as a physical therapist, so I was always asking him for more exercises to incorporate into my workouts. I liked going to PT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
Learned something new today, checked with three different recommended orthos today... new ortho docs in FL won't see a post total knee patient without reviewing all the related documents then deciding if they'll take you on. In the process now of trying to get all my records for two of them then we'll see.
In the meantime I'm going to start going to the gym, I know how to work out, so I'm going to give it a go and see how I do.
I am so sore from doing all the new classes at the gym, plus, still a little riding outside. Good sore, though. Taking a needed rest day today.
Just saw a post from my former exchange student "son," on Facebook. He laid out a bunch of documents, next a big Priority Mail envelope: Green Card, "Guide for New Immigrants," and his California driver's license. I was suddenly filled with emotion. To think, I had to be convinced to have him come stay with us, back in 2002! I definitely don't want this to sound xenophobic, but I am really proud of him. He's accomplished a lot in 13 years, including being a pro racer, owning a very successful coaching business that sponsors both mens and womans' teams, graduating from college in the US in 3 years, and marrying a lovely person. He's going to be a father in March.
What's wrong with my bio kids? Kidding, but my cup is running over with pride right now.
You have a lot to be proud of Crankin :cool:
Quads and calfs are bigger or smaller than norm? You've ridden bikes for a long time. Cyclists tend to have larger calves and quads than most. But whether larger or smaller than she expected, your PT can sort it all out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
Quad and calf are freakishly tiny. Since seeing an ortho doc here requires enough documentation to choke a cat... then waiting for a referral to a PT, I'm just going back to the gym. no twisting, no huge weight bearing exercise, but a good, steady weight workout. Hopefully that will help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
I really don't understand people sometimes. I'm going on a road trip tomorrow with a coworker to a cute little town to do some exploring. She sent me a message today to make sure not to take any pics of her tomorrow and post them on FB as she's going on a FB hiatus and doesn't want any pics of her posted. Fair enough. However, she's been plastering pics of herself with many other friends doing many different activities this past week on FB. It's hard for me to not take her statement personally as a reflection of her being embarrassed to be seen with me in photos.
Ask her when her hiatus starts? That might give her a hint. This person is an adult?
Just finished the very small amount of shopping I do. Gifts for my kids and spouses, and our closest friends. I always shop on small business Saturday and/or buy local. Good thing I got the gifts for at least my son and DIL that live here, because I just figured out Chanukah starts next Sunday night. We don't make a big deal out of it anymore, but if I invite them for dinner, I need to have the gifts.
Now I can blissfully ignore the frenzy going on around me for the next 3 weeks.
Good luck Pax, I'm sure you know what you need to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
As for me, I'm getting a movement screening on Friday (an FMS? probably, we will see), and he will also tell me what I need to do on my own to loosen my knee up and strengthen whatever needs strengthened. Hoping this tight knee isn't permenant, but it is surely too early for that to be a concern. Thankfully Dr Google has very little on this that isn't associated with a total knee replacement. This is a GOOD thing :o
VeganBikeChick - that just sounds odd, I like Crankin's suggestion.
Good for you Crankin! I don't usually shop at all, it's never been part of what we do as a family (we aren't the most functional of families). This year, however, I've knitted scarves for my sisters - I don't care if I get anything in return as that isn't why I am doing this. I just like knitting, this was an excuse to buy yummy soft merino wool and practice my super power. This consists of taking string, two sticks, waving the sticks around a bit (ok, a LOT), and suddenly there is nice warm things :cool: Amazing how much I've improved since I learned how to knit in March!
That's cool about the knitting, Catrin. I used to both knit and crochet (plus sew and do other crafts), but that was all in the pre-internet days. I'm sorry to say that that all fell by the wayside once the internet came along! I would still sew occasionally if I had my machine, but it's in my mother's basement, so that won't be happening anytime soon. I love hand-knitted items! I think the last thing I made was a dog sweater, years ago.
Gift buying, I am lucky with our lifestyle now, I don't really have to buy any gifts. We agreed not to exchange with my folks since we are in Mexico, which makes it just too difficult, and my DH's folks are in assisted living and need nothing and stopped buying gifts for us several years ago, so we finally followed suit once we started spending the winters out of the country. I might buy one or two small things for DH, but that's it. Such a burden lifted from my younger days, when I bought for many, many family members and friends too. Fortunately most people seem to be downsizing and decluttering these days anyway. Whenever I do buy a gift now, it is almost always something consumable and locally made if possible.
didn't we accept the fact that this forum is a sisterhood and therefore we are all sisters :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
You can always go back to knitting, or something else :cool: I've been focusing on not spending so much time on the internet these days, and I've found I really enjoy audio books - both from the local library and from Audible (Amazon). I enjoy listening when knitting or driving. Sometimes I watch something on tv, but really I just turn on Netflix - and I'm listening more than watching anyway.
I find it interesting that the news reporters and some larger stores are starting to complain about the smaller size of the Black Friday crowds
I hardly ever watch TV or movies. I find that I just can't sit to do so, or if we are with friends, I would rather talk. Plus, I tend to go to bed early, which cuts into TV/movie time. Have a couple of network TV shows I like, but if I miss them, I don't care. I am terrible at any handwork, so that has always been out for me. I can sit and read for hours. Feel a little guilty now that I read exclusively on my Kindle (except for work stuff). It costs a bundle, compared to the library, but I am not stopping reading. The library has books to download, but not the ones I want, and there's always a wait. Well, there could be worse things to spend money on!
Magazines are a guilty pleasure for me. I've always subscribed to several, and I read them right away. I hate reading magazines digitally, too. I subscribe to Momentum and Peloton, which are definitely bike porn for me; Momentum just went to only digital, which has killed it for me, but I had just renewed my subscription. Peloton has always been just digital, and consequently, I hardly ever actually read it on the I Pad. I do read Time and the New Yorker weekly, and a few others on a monthly basis. Yeah, I spend time on line, but not tot he detriment of interacting with others.
We like to settle in in the evenings and watch dvds (movies or old TV shows), we prefer to read but my honey can't read too much in the evenings as her eyes are wrecked from staring at spreadsheets all day. I do go to the library often to get movies and the occasional book, that really helps the budget.
So, pulled the trigger on a gym membership for both of us, money was an issue but the gym owner is a retired firefighter and gives a "hero" discount to any firefighter/medic/cop/nurse/teacher who sign up. Not thrilled with the use of the word hero, but I still took the discount. :D It's much smaller than I'm used to at the University, but the equipment is top notch, very well maintained, and the place is spotlessly clean.
Gym sounds nice, Pax, and I wouldn't be too upset to be considered a hero. :-)
I do a lot of reading. I have so many books on my wish list that I am always able to find something (e-book) I want to read for free through the library. So even though I do have the Kindle app on my tablet, I think I've only bought one book that way. We also have book exchanges here, so I get a lot of paperbacks that way. And a library in a nearby town recently had a paperback sale which we went down for -- got a huge bag of books for a $10 donation...whatta deal.
So I am not online all the time, but a lot. I used to watch a lot more TV in the US, but our Mexican cable has only a few English shows. I watch a very few things online, but not much. Audio books aren't a bad idea, Catrin, but since we've been living in a hot climate for the most part, having any hot wool on my lap doesn't appeal. Maybe someday when we're in a different climate, but not now. :-)
Sounds good Pax, and congrats on the gym membership, sounds nice!. I need to return to one, waiting to see what the full service YMCA will look like that is opening next to where I work. I get a significant discount from work there, with no initiation fee. I need to make certain that they have more I can actually do than my favorite gym (we get a discount there as well). I will have a better understanding which will work best for me when the specialist tells me on Friday what I need to focus on for my gait.
Emily - what about some yummy lace or fingering weight merino-silk blend? Too light to be hot and it can be nice on a cool evening out :cool:
I have decided that I want to learn to crochet. Maybe work up to making blankets and throws -- flat things, which I assume are easier.
My grandmother used to crochet. She used thin yarns and liked to add decorative borders to things like pillow cases and towels. I would actually like to do this too. I know it's not particularly stylish but it would be sort of nostalgic.
Having said all this, now I have to figure out how to get started.
Sounds like a good gym to me. I hope you both like working out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
I told myself to save money, so I'll justify today' book purchase as a something I'll give away to a family member. Am starting a light Canadian non-fiction book by writer, Zarqua Nawaz who lives in prairie province of Saskatchewan, "Laughing All the Way to the Mosque". She wrote also story series for the CBC national tv gentle comedy "Little Mosque on the Prairies". It ran for 6 seasons. Featured a family that intermarried where hubby was Muslim but wife wasn't. Had their mixed daughter. http://www.cbc.ca/littlemosque/
With the terrible crap in the international press and fear, I just wanted to read a book where really Muslims (these were Punjabis from India) led such ordinary, basically boring ordinary lives. To them, it's boring but not to us, if we only a little about Islam. With some humorous takes...about daily life. (Author wears a hijab, cloth on her head but she writes well for a broad audience.)
When I went up the cash register in bookstore to buy it, a hijab covered store clerk, kept looking at the back of the book, to skim what I had bought. I wondered if she had even heard of this Canadian show which stopped running about 2-3 yrs. ago.
Little Mosque on the Prairies isn't available on Netflix. At least in DVD format it's not available. Keeps pulling up Little House... instead. I for one just can't sit still and watch most all movies and TV shows. Music, I could listen for hours. And books, I have to be in a mood for it. Mood for reading last for several months and it goes away without warning for several months at a time.
I don't think a woman wearing hijab in US will be safe. So many loonies around.
Sounds like a good way to honor your grandmother with something you would like to do. Who says it isn't stylish? The desire is enough and it is yours. Have you done any crochet at all, at any age? If you did as a child you will find that it comes back amazingly quickly. I did crochet as a child, but my hands won't allow me to crochet anymore - thankfully the finger/hand positions are quite different in knitting than crochet.Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
If you've not crocheted at all Craftsy has a free crochet beginner's online class here. They have other classes as well, some free, some not. Well done classes and you have permanent access to them and most have a specific forum for questions and interaction. Personally I prefer one-on-one instruction - or at least a local group but I use Craftsy as well when necessary.
About.com also has what appears a decent introduction to crochet, here.
Have fun! I love working with fiber, from embroidery floss to large gauge wool.
Sounds lovely, but try finding that stuff here! :D Perhaps in a later year...I can see that it could possibly be a nice hobby if we do decide to buy an RV and travel around. Mobile internet can get expensive, so I might have more down time in that kind of lifestyle. I do recall from my past crafting, though, that anything thin and silky can be harder to work with and require a bit more skill. Bulky yarns are so much more forgiving! I did crochet some snowflakes out of thin white cotton twine, though, and those were kinda fun. You soak them in a water/cornstarch solution when you're done, then let them dry, so they get stiff and make lovely Christmas ornaments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
Would agree and not when the gun laws in U.S. are different (though I realize there are variations across states) compared to Canada. Because they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by smilingcat
Little Mosque on the Prairie gentle comedy series, is now syndicated in several different countries. :) The federal Canadian govn't has committed to screen and accept up to 25,000 Syrian refugees over the next few months. About several hundred just arrived at our city. Canada accepted 60,000 Vietnamese (boat) refugees in 1979. I was a university student in my 2nd year in a German-Mennonite based city (of Kitchener-Waterloo).
The rest is history, where now many are working, having careers, etc. There problems of adjustment where some fall into crime, mental illness. Just like the rest of us here where our families have been in North America for generations.
Guess what I was thinking at that time of international crisis was: How can people distinguish between those of Chinese, Japanese, Korean descent from other East Asians? The height of fear was great at that time in the press combined with those who wanted to help.
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Originally Posted by smilingcat
we had a good discussion last night about the mentality of fear/hate being used at the moment and being accepted by some of the American people….and about those who try to find ways to profit in cultivating it. Since it’s use has been politically and profitablly successful so many times before, it’s not unexpected.Quote:
Originally Posted by shootingstar
We have a large Muslim population in the L.A. area......and an inspiring women only Mosque, also open to interfaith women from all religious backgrounds, whose organization is spreading that across the country.
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit……refuse to hate”….M.L.K. Jr.
You know, this sort of racism against refugees has played itself out against various groups time and time again in US history. Other places, too. I've come to the conclusion that a lot of people are just extremely afraid of anything or anyone that is different from what their "normal" is.
My son worked for 2 years to get his translator and family out of Afghanistan. It got so bad that they were in hiding and still, his visa was going nowhere. Finally, it took my son going to his congressperson and one of the CA senators to get them out of Afghanistan. And, this is someone who worked for the US government, protecting and helping people like my son.
Growing up all over the world as a military kid, I wasn't raised with a lot of "ism". I was mostly taught America was the best country on earth and we were supposed to help others. Moving back to the states as a teenager and seeing huge racial issues (even in my school) just blew me away, it created a lot of dissonance for me, I couldn't (and still really don't) understand it.
The old Rodney King quote "People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?" resonates with me.
I know people who are otherwise welcoming, kind and generous but are terribly xenophobic and anti-any-religion-that-is-not-theirs. They get angry that their neighbors who were born in another country do not have turkey dinner on Thanksgiving. And yet their own ancestors faced similar biases just a few generations ago. I just do not understand it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
So, it's our first winter in Florida, and I can't believe how much fun it is! Sunny and warm, going to the beach in December, can't believe we waited so long to do this. :D
I envy you!! Please enjoy it immensely on behalf of those of us who are further north. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pax
Will do!Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
U suk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
Hahahahaha!!! :D
:p :p :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
I am going to be a grandmother!
Found out today.... baby is due end of August/beginning of September. We canceled the family vacation that was going to be the last week in August.
My son sounded overwhelmed with happiness.
Great news -- congratulations!!
Woo hoo!! Congrats on the soon-to-be new addition.
Congratulations, Crankin!