sometimes days are long...

every 2 hours 24 hours

set your alarms

Ottergirl: that's not good sleepies for rest

no rest only exercise

lol such an appropriate emoticon

ikr

it is basically just 10 back stretches so that explains why it's staggered to keep things loose

teach me them...my back always hurts lol

I can show you Sunday! Whether it helps or not will depend on the specific part of your back giving you guff lol

all of it

lol but yah that would be cool

still in the boot here :<

but you are making progress!

it will feel so freeing when you escape the boot

but my pt keeps adding exercises so i suppose that's a good sign of progress

aw yeah

it is!

and hurting me worse which is also...progress...?

i was like "why does this hurt so much more" and he was like "I'm pushing harder because you're getting better"

that is also progress lol

lol yeah

he had me in tears pushing on my calf today, hurt so bad

omg ow

that's worse than I've had to deal with for sure

but you also have a more acute injury

yeah i've always felt like that's a sensitive area in general, i don't even let masseuses work on it too hard

I think cuz calves are smaller it can be easier to dig in a little too hard there

yeah and this was new, he's been working around where my ligaments got all stretchy which is also very painful but at least i'm kind of used to it

so hopefully next time i can deal with it a little better

I believe in you!

ty my friend ;; i miss running lol

it gets its hooks in ya

the funny ("funny") thing about my pain spots is that a couple are aggravated by running but the worst ones aren't bothered at all by running, it's only certain body position shifts where it is a big owie

so it's like ok where the fuck did this all start from

everything is connected in the most annoying way

right? so true

runner friends...don't neglect your strength training

the irony is that last training cycle I threw myself into strength training and still ended up here

but in retrospect I can remember little hurts prior to then so whatever is going on probably started ages ago

little hurts specific to what I'm dealing with now I mean

it is weird...it's just so hard to know what the right thing to do is without guidance

srsly

I'm just glad I had a healthy HSA built up cuz the copays on thrice weekly sessions @_@ man

ahaha yeah i've been paying them out of pocket

OOF

glad you have that

i never really grasped what an hsa was for until stuff like this lol

is your insurance not covering any of it or do you just mean the part you pay is direct from regular otterbucks?

oh yeah i meant the copay

it's $35 so $105 a week rn

ahhh gotcha

i was seeing him 1-2 times a week for the knee so that was not too bad but 3x weekly is a lot

but hopefully i can decrease appts soon

if it makes you feel any better the nature of my plan that comes with the HSA is structured so my copays are a lot higher than that

oh wow

it saves me more upfront and lets me set the money aside pretax but the downside is this

cuz we don't have a civilized health system here

eyup x_x

I always kinda hated when I had a plan with an fsa though because it was like "guess how much medical money you're going to spend! if you come in under that we're going to keep it all anyway!"

see i don't even know the difference between the two haha

they both kinda have the same function but fsas have lower contribution limits and don't carry over year to year

ugh that's awful

just giving away money

right

if you have a steady amount you know you're going to spend, like regular visits, that's something I guess