i have been meaning to start biking to work, i have been gaining weight as a new mommie vs losing.

my mom i s here, so i dont have to take the little one to day care... and i saw SP riding his bike home the other day. That was motivating.

So i have finally started, but not in a way i would recommend to any patients. i did not train, i did not start a little at a time. I hopped on my bike this morning, running late, and pedaled my little heart out for the 45 minutes it took me to make it to work. I did the same on my way home.

I was already sore before setting back home on the bike in the afternoon, so tomorrow will be peachy. I have managed to flare up my achilles tendonitis, and am saddle sore. I was having a hard time dealing with the seat on the way home.

I had hoped to go tomorrow, but will be smart and rest a day to reduce the inflamation a litle,dose up hard on NSAIDs, and may get some steroidals on board too.

hopefully Friday i will be able to go again.

i can't believe it took me 45 minutes. I thought it would be closer to 20... i was proud of myself for not stopping on any of the hills. 2 times i thought the burn was too much and i would have to stop (i'm going to die, my fitness it not worth this pain), but then i started telling myself, "this is nothing, i have been through 36 hours of labor, i can keep peddaling, this is not really pain."

it was really cool, i went from misery to confident.

i was a sight when i got to work though, all blotchy and sweating profusely for the next 20 minutes.

must remember to stretch out next time. Rushed to get to where i was going to take care of poo, and forgot to stretch when i was done...

ooh

some sort of exciting news for me too.

I started doing a new kind of care this last week. Manual lymph drainage. You take someone who has a pathologically swollen extremity, and do this special hocus pocus massage, and specail hocus pocus wrapping, and magically they go from looking deformed and misshapen to normal shaped extremities...

anyway that is what is supposed to happen. I got this patient that has lost over 12 cm in circumference in her ankle in a week. It blew my mind how well all the hocus pocus worked. I did not expect such a huge change so quickly, neither did the client, or her Dr. He requested my name and number, so he can send me his cancer patients with lymphedema.

It is totally cool and totally scary. I have done one patient. Did not do before and after pics, but will from now on. DId not do as good of measurements as i should have either, but will do better on that in the future too. btu we now the changes are huge. The leg we are treating is already smaller than her normal leg and she has lost like 15 lbs. It is just crazy.

Hopefully i have not peaked.