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Health: yay, yesterday i could breathe through my nose and today it even seems easy to do so. YAY. Christine loved my beaming smile when i cam back from my quick ten minute walk across the street (down to the creek, up the next hill, back to the creek, up the hill to home; elevation changes of about 30') breathing through my nose the whole time!!! Before surgery i couldn't walk far in our back yard [breathing through my nose] without feeling oxygen deprived!
There's some possibility that the 80 mg of prednisone the day before was elevating my mood and reducing the swelling. 40 mg yesterday, 20 mg today and that's the end of that.
And the prednisone (and/or the antibiotics) have made a difference with my throat: yesterday it was difference enough that 1000 mg acetaminophen every four hours took the edge off (and consuming fluids helped thin the mucus that would catch in the painful place and compound discomfort). This morning the acetaminophen can't have had time to take full effect, but it was definitely easier to eat.
Swallowing pain did wake me, but just once.
Yay yay yay. And i took today off for this very long weekend with, OMG where is that rain coming from? I have sweet potato starts arriving Tuesday evening and need to get beds settled. So glad i am not a farmer.
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It's an unsettling time of the year in some ways. Christine's father and my mother both died June 1. And while i celebrate our move to NC, the drive across country had some traumas that Christine has had a hard time shaking. Much to do with the elephants that dominated her life before the move in some ways. She was apologizing about not being stronger in dealing with some of the traumas, but i shared my memory of how much she carried. Sure, it would be lovely if we could go through the big changes in life with out all the other challenges making them harder, but pffftt.
I hope some day she can de-localize some of her frustrations. She links them with here, they're either related to typical American behaviors or to rural situations. Only the heat and humidity are really local. We could move somewhere else (in theory; my employer has been much more uptight about remote work since the pandemic) - but because Elephants i don't think she remembers the bad air days in California in the years before we moved, and she certainly didn't have the contacts with people who lived through some of those really bad years after we moved that i had.
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Hyperfocus lately on what to do with my fitness coach's departure.
I've been using CoPilot, an app mediated connection to a personal trainer, for about a year (started in July). Initially, i had hoped for a little more ADHD coaching than she provided, but i did get a coach who was ADHD sensitive and worked with me really well. I was probably minimally demanding, but i appreciated her engagement. Very valuable were the routines in the app which announced the move, let me know where i was in the routine, and basically prompted me through the routines because i forget what i'm doing and where i'm going when i'm focusing. It's a two part thing: the human listening to my needs and arranging the exercises that will help me forward, and the technology that lets that have the routines called out to me to do them on demand.
Wednesday she "move[ed] on from CoPilot effective immediately" which sounds like corporate to customer speak of "was fired." There are four open coaches to choose from, none who make me go "yay". I get a discount for the next month at least.
Her manager reached out to me to make sure i saw the notice; i replied:
Because i do understand, but it doesn't mean i need to accept it.
To Do item: can they export my data to me?
I'm trying to decide what to do.
1. I will probably keep the next month, that starts June 5 with the 50% discount.
2. I'm buying Seconds Pro Interval Timer It's a reasonably priced app to create the voiced interval changes. I can think of other places in my life where having an app walk me through getting something done would be nice (like bits of my morning schedule). I could port the existing exercises to it.
3. I'm curious about working with a local yoga instructor (S-- B--https://www.yogagardenpbo.com/teacher-tribe) on balance and stretching routines for me. I took her 101 course in January so there's a connection. I can use the seconds pro timer to build the instructions or an iPad App called "Pocket Yoga Teacher" (although that ties me to an iOS thing, sigh). CoPilot didn't "do" yoga, and i like the breath integration and the flow of yoga. So, this would be an upgrade.
4. There's also a physical therapist (also yoga instructor) i met for some knee rehab ... in 2020? ... and maybe i now have the self awareness to work with her. She's expensive, but definitely more capable in tuning routines just for my body needs. I have some routines she gave me i could go back to.
5. I'm curious what i could do with a non personalized system like the exercise app https://seven.app/ I had talked to my CoPilot coach about HITT but ... well, there's lots of issues in my court on that.
The biggest question is how valuable the accountability was. I'm not sure if i am kidding myself when i say, oh, i can keep track for myself.
There's some possibility that the 80 mg of prednisone the day before was elevating my mood and reducing the swelling. 40 mg yesterday, 20 mg today and that's the end of that.
And the prednisone (and/or the antibiotics) have made a difference with my throat: yesterday it was difference enough that 1000 mg acetaminophen every four hours took the edge off (and consuming fluids helped thin the mucus that would catch in the painful place and compound discomfort). This morning the acetaminophen can't have had time to take full effect, but it was definitely easier to eat.
Swallowing pain did wake me, but just once.
Yay yay yay. And i took today off for this very long weekend with, OMG where is that rain coming from? I have sweet potato starts arriving Tuesday evening and need to get beds settled. So glad i am not a farmer.
--== ∞ ==--
It's an unsettling time of the year in some ways. Christine's father and my mother both died June 1. And while i celebrate our move to NC, the drive across country had some traumas that Christine has had a hard time shaking. Much to do with the elephants that dominated her life before the move in some ways. She was apologizing about not being stronger in dealing with some of the traumas, but i shared my memory of how much she carried. Sure, it would be lovely if we could go through the big changes in life with out all the other challenges making them harder, but pffftt.
I hope some day she can de-localize some of her frustrations. She links them with here, they're either related to typical American behaviors or to rural situations. Only the heat and humidity are really local. We could move somewhere else (in theory; my employer has been much more uptight about remote work since the pandemic) - but because Elephants i don't think she remembers the bad air days in California in the years before we moved, and she certainly didn't have the contacts with people who lived through some of those really bad years after we moved that i had.
--== ∞ ==--
Hyperfocus lately on what to do with my fitness coach's departure.
I've been using CoPilot, an app mediated connection to a personal trainer, for about a year (started in July). Initially, i had hoped for a little more ADHD coaching than she provided, but i did get a coach who was ADHD sensitive and worked with me really well. I was probably minimally demanding, but i appreciated her engagement. Very valuable were the routines in the app which announced the move, let me know where i was in the routine, and basically prompted me through the routines because i forget what i'm doing and where i'm going when i'm focusing. It's a two part thing: the human listening to my needs and arranging the exercises that will help me forward, and the technology that lets that have the routines called out to me to do them on demand.
Wednesday she "move[ed] on from CoPilot effective immediately" which sounds like corporate to customer speak of "was fired." There are four open coaches to choose from, none who make me go "yay". I get a discount for the next month at least.
Her manager reached out to me to make sure i saw the notice; i replied:
Yes. you only have 4 options right now. l am pondering who might be the best fit. I was so sad to find C-- is no longer available, and regret I haven't been able to tell her how helpful she has been on getting me started on may fitness journey and helping me adapt as I recover from surgery. I enjoyed working with her, and I am unhappy to have to change abruptly. Unfortunately, I understand how management and business have to manage risks when employment relationships end.
Because i do understand, but it doesn't mean i need to accept it.
To Do item: can they export my data to me?
I'm trying to decide what to do.
1. I will probably keep the next month, that starts June 5 with the 50% discount.
2. I'm buying Seconds Pro Interval Timer It's a reasonably priced app to create the voiced interval changes. I can think of other places in my life where having an app walk me through getting something done would be nice (like bits of my morning schedule). I could port the existing exercises to it.
3. I'm curious about working with a local yoga instructor (S-- B--https://www.yogagardenpbo.com/teacher-tribe) on balance and stretching routines for me. I took her 101 course in January so there's a connection. I can use the seconds pro timer to build the instructions or an iPad App called "Pocket Yoga Teacher" (although that ties me to an iOS thing, sigh). CoPilot didn't "do" yoga, and i like the breath integration and the flow of yoga. So, this would be an upgrade.
4. There's also a physical therapist (also yoga instructor) i met for some knee rehab ... in 2020? ... and maybe i now have the self awareness to work with her. She's expensive, but definitely more capable in tuning routines just for my body needs. I have some routines she gave me i could go back to.
5. I'm curious what i could do with a non personalized system like the exercise app https://seven.app/ I had talked to my CoPilot coach about HITT but ... well, there's lots of issues in my court on that.
The biggest question is how valuable the accountability was. I'm not sure if i am kidding myself when i say, oh, i can keep track for myself.