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the_rckI went for a 30 minute walk Thursday evening. That was the third time I'd taken the walker out for a real walk. I discovered a bit of pavement along one of the better walking routes that the walker can't handle; it's asphalt rather than concrete and is, I believe, owned by the city. The wheels of my walker got jarringly stuck more than once (and I dropped my phone, cracking the screen protector); I came back on the other side of the street which has normal sidewalk, and that was fine.
There were a lot more mosquitoes out than I really expected. I should have considered the fact that I was walking by a wooded area and prepared with insect repellant.
The phone thing is frustrating since part of going for walks is being able to play Ingress.
Scott has looked into replacing the wheels of the walker. He says it's prohibitively expensive. If we hadn't had to shop online, that might have come up as a feature, but, as it was, this was the only walker with a seat that I found that was up to my weight. (Also, Scott saw it on my wishlist and didn't realize that I meant it as a 'save for later' and had put it on the wrong list. He bought it for my birthday).
The first time I took the walker out was withevalerie in mid-July. We walked over to the park by the school and sat outside and talked. I sat on my walker. She sat on the ground because none of the benches have shade.
She gave me some peaches from her tree. I ended up cooking them in a skillet with margarine honey. They were excellent that way. I've been cooking Imperfect Foods peaches and nectarines that way since. Sadly, they don't reheat well. I mean, they're fine reheated, but they're actually amazing when they're first heated.
A couple of days later, I walked more than that distance after an appointment so that I could meet Scott in an area with less traffic than the main entrance to the hospital.
The walk withevalerie required rest stops for me to catch my breath which I think is entirely down to me having talked while we walked because I had no such trouble on the walk two days later even though I moved faster and went farther.
Wearing my bright pink thumb splints helps a lot with the vibration pain from the walker. I have to keep them tighter than is comfortable, but they help enough to outweigh that.
I found the pink splints online in June and ordered one. I bought the second after I had tried the first and concluded that it was much better than anything else I had tried. The fact that it's got a strap across the palm/back of my hands helps, and it's the only thing I've found that's cut high enough to fully support my hands. Most thumb splints leave the palms mostly bare (which is, I suspect, better for hygiene), but I need more than that.
These can be adjusted in different ways than the splints I'd most frequently been using (this isn't the exact brand I have, I don't think, but it's the same configuration).
The latter really mess up my wrists because they're most effective if I pull the wrist closure as tight as possible. They also only provide limited protection for the parts of my hand that hurt most and are most easily jostled. They also don't last long before the velcro starts coming loose every time I use my hands. They are moderately washable, though.
My other option for splints was these which work but weigh enough to harm my elbows, especially if I wear them as prescribed (while I sleep), and are extremely not washable and not breathable. I've been stuffing old cotton socks into the palm area of the heaviest splints because the socks are washable and don't hold sweat the way that the padding does. The heaviest splints are also very difficult to put on and take off.
The velcro for both of the not-pink splints snags on my clothing and leave scratches on my arms, legs, and torso because the velcro has harsh/sharp edges.
The pink splints haven't drawn blood from any part of my body, not even once. Both other splints scratch me up fairly badly even when I'm careful. There are a couple of bits on the pink splints that I think could be issues, but the risk from them changes depending on how I place the straps.
The heavy splints were given to me with instructions to wear them while I sleep. I have not done that because experience tells me that the repercussions for my body would be pretty terrible. The best and most likely case would be waking with all of my fingers numb. My elbows would probably end up injured as the weight made the joint hyperextend (this tends to happen when I sleep on my back with no added weight on my hands/forearms).
I'm still spending a lot of time without splints because personal grooming/hygiene, food preparation, and eating are all things I want to start with clean hands and then be able to wash fully afterward.
Cordelia has become more comfortable with her job. She doesn't love it by any means, but it's no longer new and scary. She's added a shift so that she's working five evenings a week across two locations, but she no longer shares a shift with her friend.
I've hired that friend to come over to do some house cleaning. I need the help, and she lives within walking distance. It's not easy walking distance by any means, but I could probably manage the walk (though part of the shortest route is dirt road, and I'd be unenthusiastic about moving the walker over it). I told her that I'd match her hourly rate at Jimmy John's. Hopefully, I can go better than $11.25.
She came over Wednesday, and she and Cordelia did some basic cleaning. We need to replace our mop because, although they mopped in the kitchen, the condition of the floor doesn't reflect that work.
I've written twelve fics for We Die Like Fen so far, and I'd like to do more. The archive won't reveal for a while, and it'll be even longer before author reveals, so I can't really talk about what I've written except to note that I picked up a pinch hit for myself (assignments and pinch hits are kind of random. Ish).
I've got 500 words toward my Crossworks assignment, but that's only the first scene. I think the story will run considerably longer than the minimum word count. I've been doing canon review in order to get the characters right.
There were a lot more mosquitoes out than I really expected. I should have considered the fact that I was walking by a wooded area and prepared with insect repellant.
The phone thing is frustrating since part of going for walks is being able to play Ingress.
Scott has looked into replacing the wheels of the walker. He says it's prohibitively expensive. If we hadn't had to shop online, that might have come up as a feature, but, as it was, this was the only walker with a seat that I found that was up to my weight. (Also, Scott saw it on my wishlist and didn't realize that I meant it as a 'save for later' and had put it on the wrong list. He bought it for my birthday).
The first time I took the walker out was with
evalerie in mid-July. We walked over to the park by the school and sat outside and talked. I sat on my walker. She sat on the ground because none of the benches have shade.She gave me some peaches from her tree. I ended up cooking them in a skillet with margarine honey. They were excellent that way. I've been cooking Imperfect Foods peaches and nectarines that way since. Sadly, they don't reheat well. I mean, they're fine reheated, but they're actually amazing when they're first heated.
A couple of days later, I walked more than that distance after an appointment so that I could meet Scott in an area with less traffic than the main entrance to the hospital.
The walk with
evalerie required rest stops for me to catch my breath which I think is entirely down to me having talked while we walked because I had no such trouble on the walk two days later even though I moved faster and went farther.Wearing my bright pink thumb splints helps a lot with the vibration pain from the walker. I have to keep them tighter than is comfortable, but they help enough to outweigh that.
I found the pink splints online in June and ordered one. I bought the second after I had tried the first and concluded that it was much better than anything else I had tried. The fact that it's got a strap across the palm/back of my hands helps, and it's the only thing I've found that's cut high enough to fully support my hands. Most thumb splints leave the palms mostly bare (which is, I suspect, better for hygiene), but I need more than that.
These can be adjusted in different ways than the splints I'd most frequently been using (this isn't the exact brand I have, I don't think, but it's the same configuration).
The latter really mess up my wrists because they're most effective if I pull the wrist closure as tight as possible. They also only provide limited protection for the parts of my hand that hurt most and are most easily jostled. They also don't last long before the velcro starts coming loose every time I use my hands. They are moderately washable, though.
My other option for splints was these which work but weigh enough to harm my elbows, especially if I wear them as prescribed (while I sleep), and are extremely not washable and not breathable. I've been stuffing old cotton socks into the palm area of the heaviest splints because the socks are washable and don't hold sweat the way that the padding does. The heaviest splints are also very difficult to put on and take off.
The velcro for both of the not-pink splints snags on my clothing and leave scratches on my arms, legs, and torso because the velcro has harsh/sharp edges.
The pink splints haven't drawn blood from any part of my body, not even once. Both other splints scratch me up fairly badly even when I'm careful. There are a couple of bits on the pink splints that I think could be issues, but the risk from them changes depending on how I place the straps.
The heavy splints were given to me with instructions to wear them while I sleep. I have not done that because experience tells me that the repercussions for my body would be pretty terrible. The best and most likely case would be waking with all of my fingers numb. My elbows would probably end up injured as the weight made the joint hyperextend (this tends to happen when I sleep on my back with no added weight on my hands/forearms).
I'm still spending a lot of time without splints because personal grooming/hygiene, food preparation, and eating are all things I want to start with clean hands and then be able to wash fully afterward.
Cordelia has become more comfortable with her job. She doesn't love it by any means, but it's no longer new and scary. She's added a shift so that she's working five evenings a week across two locations, but she no longer shares a shift with her friend.
I've hired that friend to come over to do some house cleaning. I need the help, and she lives within walking distance. It's not easy walking distance by any means, but I could probably manage the walk (though part of the shortest route is dirt road, and I'd be unenthusiastic about moving the walker over it). I told her that I'd match her hourly rate at Jimmy John's. Hopefully, I can go better than $11.25.
She came over Wednesday, and she and Cordelia did some basic cleaning. We need to replace our mop because, although they mopped in the kitchen, the condition of the floor doesn't reflect that work.
I've written twelve fics for We Die Like Fen so far, and I'd like to do more. The archive won't reveal for a while, and it'll be even longer before author reveals, so I can't really talk about what I've written except to note that I picked up a pinch hit for myself (assignments and pinch hits are kind of random. Ish).
I've got 500 words toward my Crossworks assignment, but that's only the first scene. I think the story will run considerably longer than the minimum word count. I've been doing canon review in order to get the characters right.
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Date: 2021-08-08 10:16 am (UTC)*hugs*
When does Cordelia leave? Have her AP scores come in yet?
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Date: 2021-08-08 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-10 09:40 am (UTC)That was Emma with the Environmental Science one. She could have done some studying on her own and practicing to try to improve her score, but she didn't care enough to.
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Date: 2021-08-08 01:45 pm (UTC)