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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,789 Member
    My new foot massager finally arrived! I got it at the suggestion of a woman who had her mat next to mine in yoga, who saw me favoring my foot.

    OMG, if there were a button to suck the rest of me in for a massage, I’d be all over it.

    This is such a treat. And it cost about the same as an hour foot massage up the street.

    I just wish you didn’t have to let it cool between uses. I could happily put my tootsies in it for hours and hours and hours on end.

    I’m happily surprised at how effective it is. I didn’t expect much at all. It warms and massages and has air bladders that gently squeeze and release, all at the same time.

    Foot still crazy painful, but gets a teensy bit better every day. Am managing a few steps before it’s toast for the rest of the day. And have been able get some yoga in, with modifications.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,763 Member
    Hey, all, just checking in.

    A couple of notable things this week:

    On Tuesday, I had a "YAG procedure" on my left eye. I've had cataract surgery on both eyes, about 2 years apart, a small part of various dramas my eyes have managed to create. My left eye had developed a film on the intra-eye implanted cataract lens, so the vision on that side was very obscured by fogginess, kind of like looking through thin cloth.

    Fortunately, the right eye is 20/20 with correction, but my eye doc couldn't even do an acuity test on the left eye a couple of months ago, because I couldn't read even the biggest numbers on the eye chart. I'd had the YAG procedure on the other eye a couple years back, so I had big expectations. Happily, they were fulfilled.

    This procedure is like being tapped with a magic wand: Sit with your chin on the chin rest, look into a lighted thingie, see some blinkie lights while the doctor shoots a laser into the eye. (Yes, really.) No pain, nothing weirder than blinkie lights . . . takes maybe half a minute or so . . . instant, dramatic improvement. Yay! I have an appointment with my regular eye doc in a couple weeks, and I'm sure we'll redo the visual acuity test with much better results.

    On another front, my original rowing coach - then the assistant coach of the local university's women's rowing team - had come back to town last season as the new head coach. Also yay, since she's one of the most significant people in my life, the person who helped me pivot in a hugely more positive direction in my late 40s. She's now re-starting the breast cancer survivors' rowing team she coached last time she was here. We'll start weekly indoor practices (rowing machines) on 1/21. We'll have a new direct coach, with her overseeing more indirectly, but I know the coaching will be great. I'm stoked.

    I'm still dealing with some after-effects from the skull fracture/subdural hematoma in November. Still mild headaches, still easily fatigued, but gradually better. Weirdly, I just realized that I have anosmia, i.e., can't smell anything. I'm presuming it's from the head injury, though I didn't notice it right away. No way to know right now whether it's temporary or permanent. (I know Covid can cause it, but I haven't had any respiratory symptoms.) I'm doing self-administered Smell Retraining Therapy (SRT), which is a fancy name for smelling several different essential oils - or trying to ;) - a couple of times a day.

    @BCLadybug888 - your mentioning Ram Dass was a blast from the past! Oh, my goodness. Ram Dass, Marshall McLuhan, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and more. 1960s/1970s. Heh.

    Happy weekend, everyone: If we haven't heard from you lately, let us know how you're doing? :)

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