redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Sep. 21st, 2024 10:05 am)
This is basically for my records, because memory is fallible.

This morning, Sat. Sept. 21, standing long enough to do a few dishes while making tea, the backs of my knees hurt (which has been an issue throughout this), but when I walked into the study, using the cane, I noted the backs of my calves also hurt. I had about as much trouble finding an OK position and getting to sleep as the day before, but slept until past 9 a.m., which is good.

First result from yesterday's blood tests: C-reactive protein is "high." That's an automated result from MyChart, and hopefully Carmen will look at this and the other esults and it will tell her something useful. I looked at the "trends" tab on MyChart, but apparently I haven't had that test within the memory of this medical record system (which is back to sometime in 2017).

Saturday afternoon: I now have all of yesterday's test results, except for the vitamin D. Quite a few are either above or below the normal range, some with color-coded graphs and some that just say things like "9.8 (high)." I hope this gives Carmen something to work with. I asked Adrian, if she looked up what the numbers meant, not to tell me things like "it could be x, y, z, or w," because it would only give me more to worry with/about.

[I intend to be adding to this post as time goes on, and will put most of it under a cut tag.]
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Sep. 21st, 2024 02:45 pm)
I'm still having trouble lying down, as well as standing and walking, but after doing almost none of my exercises/PT for a couple of weeks, I did half a dozen different exercises, sitting down. Adrian and Cattitude to help with this, by moving a chair and hooking the elastic band, before lunch, and by bringing me my hand weights after lunch and Scrabble.

That's almost all the available PT--most of what I do, I do either standing up, or lying on my back. I also did biceps curls for the first time in a few months, because that seemed like something I could do sitting on an ordinary chair. (I used to do them sitting on an en exercise ball at the gym, back when I was going to a gym.)

numbers, for the hell of it )
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