Sept 8th – Sept 14th 2024: “Birthday, Tightness, and An Inflamed Knee”

9/8

I woke up and really had quite the feeling to have to go, plus lots of tingling. Yuck. What’s interesting though is the stable-ness I am noticing in my legs. I really am noticing the tightness in my abdomen traveling downwards in my abdomen, moving what feels like lower by the day. Every day I wake up I notice something different. Like my low back when I rolled over, how sweaty I noticed it to be!

As I’m hopping off the toilet, my legs are pushing and staying planted throughout the “jump”! And also, I’m noticing the morning hunger pains in the stomach in the morning that I used to get, are returning??  

I had a good session on the floor today too! I was even able to get the astronaut shorts on myself! I was really able to get moving and get myself stretched out, and the tingling managed!

9/9

So I woke up to start the work week feeling refreshed! I’m ready for a busy week. I’m really feeling my legs being engaged, and wanting to do more every day! I wonder what today will bring? I have been noticing the time on the bike at therapy has really been helping, and my leg is having a stepping/ pedal response when my hip is in extension and off the footplate! Just gotta keep working to get everything stretched out! 

Just relax, hamstrings. It’s okay to slow down. You fellas are needed, just not all the time! I can feel them right now tightening up on me, and they don’t need to! It’s really interesting feeling the changes in my right and left hip, my lower butt, hamstrings and quads, my knees and shins, ankles, and there almost feels like there’s a line? Around my ankle, where the tingling starts and stops? The tingling in my lower sole of my foot is changing, and I notice too, how this weekend the tingling is trying to tell me other things?

When I was cold, they were tingling more, when they were sweaty, they were tingling more? Maybe it’s a sign that I’m going to be able to feel temperature? Might just need to work on it a bit! Let’s get today going, and see what today brings!

At the gym right now, it’s 8:17pm. I’m doing 30lb single arm bent over rows! This is the most weight I’ve ever done! It’s really not so hard to do the movement, but moving the weight around, off the rack, and setting myself up, that’s a workout in and of itself!

My legs haven’t been tingling much against all today, and my whole body has been so engaged! I have also noticed how breathing in during muscle contractions are helping a lot! 

9/10

Okay, so I had a wild set of dreams, and when I was laying on my stomach, I also had a wild set of feelings too! What’s interesting is this is the flattest, least spasms, and relaxed i have ever felt laying on my back before! My low back muscles and glutes are really engaged, my abdomen isn’t spasming, my hips aren’t either! Also my quads feel very engaged, my knees, shins, ankles, and feet feel so different today! I wonder how it will all go today and at therapy? Let’s see!

I actually did a full revolution on the bike on my own!!! 

So at the gym, I’m noticing how much deeper I can take a breath, it’s really cool! I’m taking an inhale with each eccentric contraction, and I’m noticing how it’s changing things! I’m really doing movements I have never done before, and I’m glad to see how things have been changing because of it!

When I flex my abs, I notice how my left hip is also contracting a bit too…. Hmm I wonder what this is about? I’m really noticing how my breath is so intrinsically intertwined with my movements, I can’t ignore how much of a difference this is making. It’s so interesting to see how my body is behaving with this!

9/11

Birthday today! Glad to have been able to get some donuts for folks at work thanks to Evan, as well as donuts for folks at therapy, thanks to Callie! Made our way to Vanguard, ate some brats, and some tasty sides! It’s been a long week, as well as a long day! I think I chatted with everyone in the family, so I’m glad for that. Pretty glad to still be alive to celebrate another one.

9/12

Another busy and filled day, I’m really dragging. It’s hard to be able to take time to take notes when my days are so full. It’s really hard. I don’t think I have much else to report on except that I’m tired, and looking forward to the weekend.

9/13

So I’m a bit concerned/ not super happy about my knee. I had to take a day off therapy for this fella. He’s really inflamed, and I think that all the transfers, therapy, and probably most likely the crawling is having its toll on him. I guess I’ll have to take some time off the knee to give him a break. Fingers crossed that nothing else is wrong with him!

9/14

I’m realizing that my hamstrings are shutting off! When I kick my legs off the footplate, with a little assistance, I got to feel my hamstrings, and that’s when I noticed this? I do really think that they are able to be quieting down, but they are still awfully tight, especially in the mornings. Need to take it easy this weekend, my body needs it, and hopefully will thank me later!