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Dec. 7th, 2002 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckScott's planning to consult with my mother about the bathroom work. She's done this sort of thing many times over the years and so is something of an expert. She says she'll come to visit and help us get everything done, but she's balking at dealing with Michigan in winter. She hasn't dealt with a northern winter in about a decade and does not want that to change. The problem is that as we get toward March we run into my sister's wedding (she hasn't set a specific date yet. Grumble... I think she's still kind of focused on figuring out how to keep our father from attending).
Speaking of my sister, she called yesterday. We didn't talk for long before she had to hang up to deal with something at her shop. She wanted to find out how my pregnancy's progressing. The answer is that, well, it's still happening. I'm over the morning sickness (but well into the reflux). The fatigue still pops up pretty often. My breasts still hurt, and my lower back is already unhappy. (The back thing has kind of settled into a low level ache that flares when I do a lot of bending (lifting seems to be irrelevant) or stair climbing. I can still manage the treadmill without aggravating it; I just have to deal with the stairs before and after. Sigh... I occasionally wish we had a place to fit the stupid thing up here; sadly, I don't see it happening.
I expect that I'll be running through the swimming argument some time during this pregnancy. Every new doctor, nurse or physical therapist I see seems to consider swimming the ideal exercise for me. I generally just cite the water phobia even though that's not the major reason (I'm not phobic of swimming pools, after all); it's just the reason that they can't argue with. The real reasons have a lot more to do with access. In order to get to somewhere that I could swim (and home again), I'd have to take the bus and walk a good bit. If I'm going to hit my exercise tolerance getting there and back again, I don't see the point. Also, I have a LOT of hair, too much to comfortably fit under a bathing cap. When I wash it, it takes 3-6 hours to dry. If I can avoid it, I don't go out in cold weather with wet hair. I don't blow dry my hair for two reasons: 1) If I blow dry it, it splits, breaks and generally disintegrates, and 2) I'm not willing to spend 45 minutes (I exaggerate not!) with brush and blow drier when I could be doing something interesting, productive or even just not hot and smelly (What is it about hair driers? They all have the same burnt organic matter odor. I used to think it was from having hair sucked into the in vent, but... That doesn't seem an adequate explanation).
At any rate, swimming is a form of exercise that doesn't much appeal to me. It is, however, the form that just about everyone thinks ought to be perfect for me. Sigh...
Speaking of my sister, she called yesterday. We didn't talk for long before she had to hang up to deal with something at her shop. She wanted to find out how my pregnancy's progressing. The answer is that, well, it's still happening. I'm over the morning sickness (but well into the reflux). The fatigue still pops up pretty often. My breasts still hurt, and my lower back is already unhappy. (The back thing has kind of settled into a low level ache that flares when I do a lot of bending (lifting seems to be irrelevant) or stair climbing. I can still manage the treadmill without aggravating it; I just have to deal with the stairs before and after. Sigh... I occasionally wish we had a place to fit the stupid thing up here; sadly, I don't see it happening.
I expect that I'll be running through the swimming argument some time during this pregnancy. Every new doctor, nurse or physical therapist I see seems to consider swimming the ideal exercise for me. I generally just cite the water phobia even though that's not the major reason (I'm not phobic of swimming pools, after all); it's just the reason that they can't argue with. The real reasons have a lot more to do with access. In order to get to somewhere that I could swim (and home again), I'd have to take the bus and walk a good bit. If I'm going to hit my exercise tolerance getting there and back again, I don't see the point. Also, I have a LOT of hair, too much to comfortably fit under a bathing cap. When I wash it, it takes 3-6 hours to dry. If I can avoid it, I don't go out in cold weather with wet hair. I don't blow dry my hair for two reasons: 1) If I blow dry it, it splits, breaks and generally disintegrates, and 2) I'm not willing to spend 45 minutes (I exaggerate not!) with brush and blow drier when I could be doing something interesting, productive or even just not hot and smelly (What is it about hair driers? They all have the same burnt organic matter odor. I used to think it was from having hair sucked into the in vent, but... That doesn't seem an adequate explanation).
At any rate, swimming is a form of exercise that doesn't much appeal to me. It is, however, the form that just about everyone thinks ought to be perfect for me. Sigh...
