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6/24/18: Visit to the Department Store

On Thursday last week I stopped into a local department store that I don’t usually go into, and ran into a former personal training client. I was telling her about my December hamstring surgery when the store clerk politely interrupted to tell me that her 70-year-old mother had just slipped on her granddaughter’s towel in the bathroom and badly hurt her hamstrings.

I had to hold myself back from launching information at her. I wrote down my surgeon’s name and my email and told her, “Get her an MRI, and don’t let anyone tell her she’s too old for surgery!” The clerk smiled through tears and said God must have sent me into her store. I practically floated out of there, astonished & grateful.

6/22/18: The Clutch Has Gone

6/21/18: Bridging the Gap

This sounds like an enormously important book that outlines an organizational system for healing & recovery – a multidisciplinary approach that allows for the weaving of tools & knowledge from physical therapists, athletic trainers, chiropractors, strength coaches, personal trainers, massage therapists, acupuncturists, medical personnel, nutritionists, sport scientists, researchers and clinicians. Aaallll the people whose hands we’ve been seeking on this journey. Expansive & brilliant thinking.

Have a listen to an interview with its author, Sue Falsone, at about 31 minutes in:

The Strength Coach Podcast, Episode #233

(Fast forward to 31:00)

On your phone.

On your computer.

And if you have time, a second interview with a better (I think) interviewer. They cover some different topics here, including her opinion on kinesiology tape and using ice after injury.

6/18/18: Slow Down

Lately (6 mo PO) I’ve been getting up first thing to go for my stamina-building walk. It wakes me up, keeps me out of my head, and puts me in a better place to manage the speed & multitasking of breakfast-lunches-get-everyone-out.

Today was humid & hazy, and a gnat decided to circle my head for most of the walk. Hammies were tight & sore & resisting the usual loosening magic of the Stick. I was pissed.

Apparently the Den of Positivity doesn’t allow for pissed off mornings, though, because it sent me signs that I couldn’t stop taking pictures of, culminating with a great blue heron taking flight off the pond at my turn-around spot. I couldn’t get my jaw off the ground fast enough to capture her on camera, but I’ve attached a few of the bright spots that pulled me out of the gnat cloud. It was still humid on the walk home, and my leg still hurt. *And* there are good things in the world. Gotta slow down to see them.

6/15/18: Air

Den of Positivity, Day 192 / 6 mo PO:

I broke into an accidental run this week, chasing a baseball down the hill. Still alive. (And I didn’t retear anything – my real & ongoing fear.) Escaped with minimal soreness and the baseball. Slow and steady progress. Better every day.

6/15/18: Going Inward With Music

I put this one in my PT/Build Walking Stamina mix today, and am sending it out to the recently-arrived David and other Hamsters having to lay down the adrenaline to heal. At 6 mo PO I am better every day, keeping the progress slow & steady, and going inward with music for the rush. “So burning stars/are who we are/igniting from within…”

6/14/18: Personal Journeys

6/6/18: Shed Support

At the track yesterday working on walking stamina & PT exercises, and I felt the urge to break into a run again. (6 months PO hammiversary..!) Still holding off, since my April backpack stumble set me back so much. My eye caught the shed in the distance and I couldn’t help but think it was laughing at me. As I rounded the bend I saw she was actually cheering me on.