10 months PO. I gave in and started wearing underwear again. Definitely overrated, but…okay, necessary on certain days. A lot of sensation has returned to the back of my surgical side thigh, and it doesn’t feel so bizarre & uncomfortable anymore to have the underwear’s elastic against the incision on my glute fold. Probably not an issue so late in the game for other Hamsters, but I’m farther out on that sensory integration scale than most. I can’t wear that shit *every* day. Commando days remain. Still… progress.
Den of Positivity Blog Posts
10/11/18: Never Alone
When you wake up early, and take your meds, and get on the foam roller and stretch your body awake, and then get on Facebook, and no one is on yet, but then you watch, starting at 5:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, as the little green circles next to your Friends’ names start to come on, one by one, like stars coming out, or little suns rising…
10/5/18: Perspective
10/3/18: Rest. Breathe.
Look..! They *do* sit still. Find a way. Rest. Breathe. Then off you go again.
9/30/18: Breathin
Keep feelin’ those feels, friends, with a buddy if you need to. And keep breathin’.
9/27/18: Big Triumph for This Turtle
9.5 mo PO and I made this reach from the driver’s seat without any pain or tightness in my hammies. Big triumph for this turtle. Huge flexibility gain. Woo-hoo! (That’s my arm, not my leg.)
9/26/18: The Hamstring That Was Patched Up With Polyester Tape
The Daily Mail article, The torn hamstring that was patched up with polyester tape!
Love this so much. Christina’s a friend I made on the Facebook group mentioned in the article. My hamstring tendons were only retracted 3cm – vs. her 10 cm – so they didn’t need the reinforcement tape described here, but what a great educational piece about the rare injury she and I share – some folks who sustain this injury take months or even years to find the correct diagnosis, proper care, and surgeon who knows how to perform the surgery. H/T to Victoria Valentine for starting the group, which has provided valuable information & saved my heart these past 9 months.
9/25/18: Glennon Doyle Melton
Den of Positivity, 9.5 mo PO:
When I first heard Glennon Doyle Melton speak a few years ago, I couldn’t believe her tiny voice was the same one that boomed out of the narratives I’d been reading in her blog, Momastery. Don’t let the little voice fool you – this one’s a powerhouse of transformation & wisdom. And such a good writer.
Glennon’s words here echo many of the same truths about rising strong from failure that Brené Brown’s research & data do in her book, Rising Strong.
Again and again, I get the same message in my recovery from this injury and what has at times felt like a botched career change from public school teacher to personal trainer – “It’s really all we have to do. We have to sit through those uncomfortable feelings and let God work, and not numb or run. …If we can just let life be hard, and not numb it, and not run from it, and not deflect our pain onto somebody else… if we can just be still with it – we are transformed. Be still.”
9/25/18: Girls Gone Strong
I love this article from Girls Gone Strong as it reminds us that hamstring “tightness” can result from a number of imbalances & weaknesses in the abdomen, lower back, & pelvic floor. Most of us are not women who‘ve just given birth, but those of us who’ve born children may have instabilities that were never properly healed/addressed, and men can have similar pelvic dysfunction from postural distortions. Might be a good article to pass on to your PT.
9/24/18: Happy Fall
Happy fall, FB friends.
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