Yeah the Nurse Practioner was like "well your ears aren't about to burst but they are red and swollen". Which i guess is comforting.

askye, feel better. You really haven't gotten a break lately.

I hope the doctor visit helps askye!

I am also in the don't wanna--I don't have to be where I'm going until 1pm today but I have a bunch I should be doing in my hotel room. So far I do have the computer out...

I'm doing yoga at home--or at least starting to get to a place where what I'm doing can be called yoga. It's depressing to realize that an outside observer would not be able to tell that I'm doing my damnedest to raise my torso up off the floor. But I'm not getting any more limber just lying there and bitching about my lack of strength and flexibility. Gotta get the wheels off the tarmac before I can fly.

Flexibility is really slow thing to increase. It also is something people are born with or not, in order to increase it and keep it, you have to stretch everyday.

I don't have it and it takes daily stretching for weeks to see any improvement.

It took me a number of months with Pilates to see any significant improvement and since I've put a little weight back on (and lapsed on the Pilates) I'm losing a lot of it again. I was doing minimum 5 days a week and it really helped.

I'm really hoping to get my hip and shoulder to stop hurting as much.

Sorry about the don'wannas and the doctors and the ick, JZ and askye and everyone else to whom it applies, which is probably at least half of us to some extent! I had a bad case of don'wanna yesterday, and I'm paying for it today.

I just had my last visit with my therapist. Hopefully last anyway. She was really helpful, and I feel like I'm done dealing with issues, at least for a while. I won't say they're gone, but they're less, and my coping mechanisms are much better.

Today, I feel fantastic, actually. I was nearly running down the narrow stairs from her office, instead of holding on to the banister and stepping carefully down like I usually do. The Fitbit made me conscious of how much (how little) I was moving around and gave me incentive to walk more, and it's paying off. This exercise thing seems to be making me more confident in my body and my movements, which is a huge deal.

Yay, yoga and/or Pilates! It's so good for you, and so hard to get going on. I applaud everyone who's doing it.

or at least starting to get to a place where what I'm doing can be called yoga.

As my stretch teacher always says, initiating the movement is valid. She also likes to point out that it's better to do the movement correctly, even if it's only a very small movement. Also kudos for starting yoga!

Waking up the muscles and telling them what I want them to do is better than leaving them as useless lumps.