The Edun poem scarf is so pretty! I have one myself and it looks so good with my authentic Bono sunglasses! The Emporio Armani 9592's
Squats are a good exercise, but I can't do them much anymore because they kill my knees ouch.
I don't really do ....well.... my major exercise is walking, and in my newer nabe (once i'm better again) climbing 3 flights subway stairs and 7 blocks downhill
, when i get a new boom box (my 5 CD Free-Cycle gotten changer is beginning to mess up....but i will open up and try to clean it first as a friend suggested. Still i need a boom box with a working 1 or 2 cassette tape player as well.... i dance in the house to R&R.
And when i find my handwriten and drawn tai chi instructions - i did one form of it consistentlyfor 5 years (?81 - 87) then another 5 years consistently with a different form (95 - 2000 ish) with some sporadic pieces of each in between those yrs i will really get back to it!
plus hopefully some weight training for upper back! actually i sometimes remember to use my quad cane (?3-4 lbs) dividing each set of reps in half so so i can switch the heavier & bigger quad part (4 legs) to the other hand/arm for even workout!
I talked alot w my wonderful PT person in rehab and good one for the short-run @home PT about things i could do home for longer term bone and muscle strength over months and years.
i credit that (and some other stuff) to me being free of any chronic aches and pains. ...only when i really over do something do i experience pain/aches. Usually it goes away from a few mins or hours. Rarer a few days, and rarest longer term pain now off & on. Right now- pains at my elbow areas and some for arm in straigtening them or gripping stuff in my hands. blah.
The right one started a few days before i left rehab (late june) i think it was tripped off by me sometimes pulling my self in the wheelcheer using the railings on the walls there. And the left one started around 6 weeks later.... from using the cane, I'm sure.
So i massage it. I keep forgetting tho to get a reusable cold/hot pack!
I do (I worry a little) mostly expect both to eventually be fine aain. One the rare occasions i've had these longer term problems they usually have resolved themselves in 3 - 6 ish months. One extra monkey-wrench is with me on temporary blood thinners
a lot of phyto-nutrients provided in many fruits, including various berry yogurts, olive oil, several nuts, and
most herbs & spices are not allowed.
The
salicylates in all these items:
Natural Asprin- originally discovered that North Eastern/Mid-Western Native Americans got it through i believe Willow-bark is a natural blood thinner. I eat greek, chinese, italian, indian, tex-mex, cali-mex, spanish/latino and some traditional 'merican dishes ost of it all chock-full of this stuff (and the many phytonuitrients)!
I haven't had much at all except some chinese since mid-May.
and don't do squats much... i should do some moderate ones once i'm all healed up. Deep squats -no- i have short achilles heels. I tend to fall over bacwards.
i just need to eat less of certain things and exercise more. I had been losing weight again before accident.
i do need to lose about 30 - 40 lbs at least ( depends on how much i weigh now) and another 10-15 would be best.
45 of my years have been in the middle-normal end, 2 sets
of 2+ yrs overweight one one early-mid 20's and middle-40's
and
last 10 yrs <and heaviest at times>)
can i also say smallish hula-hoop!
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oh and yes....that Edun scarf
is very pretty!