I *thought* I was participating in an intelligent convo with professionals. The naivete, it burns...

Oh Erin. I am glad you're not letting it get to you. I'm kind of a renowned expert in my particular area of technical knowledge in my job, and I *still* have idiots trying to undermine me on teh interwebs.

I'm still coughing. This is really getting old.

Oh, Hil, the recovery time for bronchitis sucks. I hope it gets better very soon.

javachik, yeah. I was all "I AM ANG!..ry? Naw...oh, WTF, lurkers support me in email and they're awesome. On to better things!"

In my head, natch.

But my doctor said I could have some arthritis starting in my hip that could be referring pain out to the muscle and causing trigger points (which in turn make the muscles have pain). Which would still make it mostly a muscular thing in the end, but I guess if I have some arthritis starting it would be good to know.

That's the issue I'm having with my shoulder. Building muscle strength has been helping a lot, though.

Also, another payoff from the weight training is that moving the HYOOGE potted bay tree inside for the winter was not the onerous task I had expected. This spring, I could barely haul it outside. Today, I just picked it up and marched it into the breezeway with little trouble.

In other news, I am dealing with some unpleasant work drama. There has been some rearrangement within our division, and our department is merging with another, smaller one. While our department is hardly blameless in this regard, some people in the other department are treating any suggestion that they might have to change some of their processes to comply with our department's more stringent compliance scrutiny as a form of oppression.

Yes, I know that change is unpleasant. Yes, I know they're dealing with the trauma of going from a small department to being part of a much larger one where responsibilities are divvied up a little differently. But I swear to god, if one more person tries to justify keeping some process because "we worked so hard on it!" or says that stating a difference of opinion is "shutting them down" I'm going to lose it. Dudes, if you expect us to be flexible and re-examine how we do things, then extend us the same courtesy.

But my doctor said I could have some arthritis starting in my hip that could be referring pain out to the muscle and causing trigger points (which in turn make the muscles have pain). Which would still make it mostly a muscular thing in the end, but I guess if I have some arthritis starting it would be good to know.

That's the issue I'm having with my shoulder. Building muscle strength has been helping a lot, though.

Have you done weight training while your shoulder hurt? Because I'm wary of doing anything while my hip hurts (other than walking, like walking the dog, or the track at the gym), because I'm afraid I'll hurt it more.

Which reminds me I need to get down on the foam roller. It hurts like hell, but it really does help. And then a heating pad.

Have you done weight training while your shoulder hurt?

If it's achey pain, like arthritis pain or the pain from muscles being too tight, I do work out. Per my chiropractor, NOT working the joint can do more damage in the long run. Keeping the joint mobile and keeping the muscle built up around it won't reverse any arthritis that's there, but it sure as heck mitigates it.

Anything that feels like it might be ligaments, I stop right away.

What does ligament pain/discomfort feel like?

It's more like a sharp pain that's immediately adjacent to the joint if that makes sense. It sort of... pulls, in my experience. It feels unstable. Arthritis feels more like a dull, crunchy ache within the joint itself.