Today we did a little guitar swapping. We went from a acoustic Gretsch to an electric Gretsch. Don't they look COOL!!! They sound even cooler!! I'm having so much fun learning and I'm really having fun playing electric.. this is my first time. I'm practicing every day and making progress every day. It's a really great creative outlet like cooking and painting but in a different way. It helps to keep the TV off in the house and that's been a real problem for Greg. He is so talented and it's so great to see him play music again.
I'm turning my middle weird room in our house into a Martini lounge and the featured band every night is OUR BAND!!! How fun is that??!! I'm going to put stars on the ceiling and still figuring out how I'm going to set it up and decorate it.. something cute and fun.
12 more days til I go to UCLA for my big MRI test to see what's going on inside my shoulder/neck area. My neck has been super stiff lately and arms and hands keep wanting to fall asleep.. bugs the crap out of me. I can't wait to hear what they find. I'd love to know a way to relax my neck and shoulder muscles easily... I've always held a lot of stress in that area of my body and I'm sure that my lifestyle as well as the jobs I've had contributed to this. All of the data entry I've done forever didn't help... plus carrying heavy purses and lifting heavy weights and not standing up straight or who knows what else. I just hope that I am connected to the right people so that I can do the exercises that I need to do to relieve this without surgery. I will do anything to fix this and fix the sleep apnea and every other thing.. I'm done with all of the health problems... I got off of all of the medicine before and I felt great.. but I just couldn't get away from this on my own and I trust my neurologist. He really did save me from Bell's Palsy.. if it wasn't for him I would have ended up with a terribly crooked face. He has been the only doctor that has treated the whole body and he doesn't over do anything. He gets right to the point... it's just that this stupid MRI test takes forever to get into because it's so specialized. So once it's done we're on our way and we can really zero in on the physical therapy....
as for the physical therapy... starting tomorrow I am going to approach it as the athlete* that I am. I have a home PT program that I am working on... as an athlete. Then when I am recovered enough to be able to work again with Kettlebells and do Bikram Yoga, I will do those...as an athlete... because I am!
Damn Straight!
*as inspired by Tracy Reifkind! I'm forever inspired by Tracy
2 comments:
Wow! When we talked about living as an athlete and approaching "workouts" as "training", it didn't occur to me that you can approach PT that way, but how excellent! You go girl.
Jen....in training....again! No matter how or why you are moving your body, you're moving it, and that's something to be proud of.
Yes Tracy, my inspiration, my athletic Muse!! LOL!
Seriously!! I get discouraged a lot when I feel my body not working the way I want it to... or when something is off.. but especially after talking to you or reading something you have written, I take a look at my situation in a different way and take a new approach. So like you said, I'm going to approach the PT as an athlete... move forward, train my ass off... give it everything I've got and that's when I feel most alive. To me that's really living! That's what it's all about, right?!
Thanks to you, my friend!
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