8/23/26 – Full Days
And just like that another week rolls by. It’s interesting too, the amount of sensation in my right foot is UNREAL. Both ankles are lit up, knees, gastroc’s, you name it!! Lower legs are feeling like crazy!!!
There is so much running around in my head. So much to do. So much. It’s overwhelming. I guess that’s why we gotta slow down sometimes. Focus on the important things first.
What’s hard to have to make terms with is how much time and attention my body needs. So instead of having days full of projects, fun, and the like, I’m stuck swapping out a lot of that time with bodily maintenance. Not that I can’t do other stuff, but it takes more time than I think. Which is exactly why I gotta start bringing my braces to work, and weaving in more time with them throughout the day!
Lots of house work done today!
Body on the bike and the breath pattern today was very interesting!! This was the most amount of exhalation I have been able to do to date! This was incredible!!
Figure four supine stretching and my right leg stretched out fully!? What is this magic!?!? I’ve never done this yet! This was amazing!? And with my own body too??
Very full day! So much got done! Full days are good days like this!
8/24/26 – Electrolytes for the Win!
Trying to help get my body to rest all the way thru the night is so interesting! Telling my body and autonomic system what to do, relaxing, slowing down, you name it, it’s all tough! I really just want to be able to sleep thru the night, is that too much to ask?!
My entire back I can say is online! My glutes are back online, quads are filling in, gastroc’s I can feel firing too!! My feet are feeling soooo different! Having a hydration mix prior to getting up in the braces has helped me so much! I gotta do that again today!
Honestly all day now, I’m really trying to just alternately squeeze and engage my glutes, fire up my core, and push thru my feet! Yesterday while riding the bike, the sensation of the bar under the middle of my foot was so pronounced!!! There was definitely something under my feet that they were pressing into!!!
Closing out projects…… I need to keep that a focus for this week as well! Gonna be busy going to Michigan this weekend and then having my family come visit the following weekend! Oof!!
Had a weird occurrence on my drive to PT. That was not fun AT ALL.
Wow. Today went amazing at PT & OT! I was working on so much! The electrolytes just made such a world of difference prior to the start of the session! I had taken the mix like ~1hr ahead of time, and I was stoked to feel how loose I was!!!
8/25/26 – Drive-In Reflections
Why does my hip flexors kick in so bad? Why don’t they feel safe? Are they trying to get me up? Are they trying to stabilize my pelvis? Is my pelvis supported properly from my trunk and torso? Is that why my hip flexors are kicking in? I need to do some investigating here. My left side is too overactive, I need to figure this out?
I had a really weird occurrence yesterday. I heard some sirens as I was getting off the freeway. Either a police car or ambulance was coming by. I thought, “I bet this is coming down the one-way on the side of the freeway.” And sure enough, it did. Here I am, green light, and slowly approaching the intersection, and here comes an ambulance on my right. I kinda lock up and Callie on my right kinda freaks out too. I say, “do I go or stay?” And she hesitates and says “Go! Stop!”
Good thing this driver was actually paying attention, because I slowly proceeded thru the intersection. It was nerve wrecking. Callie was alarmed. I was alarmed. I was all shaken up on the rest of the drive, making my way to physical therapy.
I said a little bit later to Callie, “I’m glad that driver was paying attention. All I had to do was clear the intersection, and he was able to get thru”. In a matter of seconds, something terrible happened to me in my past. It left me dazed, thinking about that. It’s hard, to always be left with thoughts like this. It’s hard. It’s so hard. All the “what-ifs” and “what could have happened”. It’s always when it feels so innocuous and mundane, you never even notice these instances. But I do now. Things aren’t the same. And it’s really effing hard.
I guess I better get up and get started with my day. Maybe try to get up in these braces.
Legs ready to go.
My left hip doesn’t know where my left hip is? He’s needing to let go of whatever is holding on. I don’t need whatever tension he’s holding, he can go. I want my leg back, whatever else is here is free to go.
8/26/26 – Crazy Dreams / Explorer
I had some crazy dreams this past night. Callie and I were up in Houghton, up on Tech’s campus. It was so different. And I was walking to sooo many places!!! In the M&M, by Dillman, Through what we called Hogwarts (DHH), but everything had sooo many updates! It was crazy! The M&M had some really crazy atrium, with this crazy high vaulted theatre, that had a platform with no guardrails or anything and Callie and I almost fell off! Going in all these buildings made me cry so much. It was so emotional! I was walking so much!!
Quads and glutes are fighting to keep my legs extended! They really are! It’s also so interesting how my body responds to certain positions? Like I thought I needed to get up and pee, but I just needed to roll over? I did that, and fell into such a deep sleep!? How odd?
I’m like an explorer. Like a navigator inside my own body?
Just hit a PR while walking at wellness today!!
Great session at Pilates!! Feeling more through my feet! This was a killer day!
Turns out I’m up in the standing frame right now, and I’m feeling so much of my feet and toes planting firm into the ground beneath me! It’s really cool because the harder I squeeze my feet, the harder my quads, gastroc’s, Glutes, shins, knees, and feet all continue to increase in engagement!? The more I feel my feet, the stronger my body feels, it’s insane???
The more focus I direct into my feet, the more I push thru my toes, squeeze my calves, engage to stabilize my knee, push my hips forward, the more and more upright I become! This is fascinating because this was the first time I’ve ever specifically focused on only my feet and toes, and noticed such significant changes???
The electrolytes have been huge! Also just inhaling and squeezing these muscles has been awesome as well! They really need it!
Wow — the more force, attention, and push thru my feet has got my legs lighting up like never before! This is pretty unreal!
8/27/26 – Feet Back In The Picture
Working on keeping my feet in the picture has done huge things for my body and legs! I’m honestly shocked how much sensations and activation my legs are having!!
8/28/26 – Big Day In Michigan!
Big Day for Tyler & Ashley!!!! What a gorgeous day for these two!!! So excited for them, and to be apart of their very special day!!
This has been a day full of dancing and moving all arounds, maybe not up in the braces but still a very busy and event filled day!!
8/29/26 – Path of Innervation
Dancing?…. As a primitive form of movement? Have humans been doing this for thousands of years?? When was the Waltz invented? I’m so interested now to understand how humans and dance have been moving since the beginning of time???
Path of Innervation? What does this look like for the growth stages in the womb, and development? Is this follow the dermatomes, or is it different? I’d love to know more about this!
Well, made it back to Milwaukee! It was quite the day! My body has been showing up with…. This is honestly been such a full day. I’m really to go to sleep.
As I am laying supine, on back, and left my legs fall to my right side past medial, I feel 3 slow pops in my low back, that originate from my deep left hip area to my back?!? SO WEIRD! Just insane. Not even sure how this happened!? Also not sure what it did, but my legs are rotated much farther to my right, and my left hip feels so much looser!? Soo odd????
Gotta work my pelvic floor muscles consistency, if I’m having such a hard time sometimes! Let’s see how tonite went for the rest! So much to do! Hard to fit it all in sometimes!
The Astronaut on Earth 
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