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Either my legs have gotten used to boots, or compression stockings are the answer to that weird recurring thigh cramp that has puzzled my doctor and chiropractor and acupuncturists all these months. Walked all over the map today and do not twinge. Why something that stops below my knee should affect the muscles well above the knee, I do not know, but so it seems. And today one of the parents gifted the staff with a basket of socks from her company, and I snaffled two pairs of compression socks. Not the high gauge of these ones, but hey- compression is compression.

Also no one grabbed me to say Can you work for me tomorrow, so OMG I might have the day off!

What have you just finished reading?
Pema Chodron, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change. One of the denser of Chodron's books, probably requiring constant rereading, like When Things Fall Apart. I find Chodron either very satisfying or completely opaque, which makes her a lot like poetry.

What are you reading now?
Iain Banks, The Business.
That book on Japanese connectives.
An obscure Kamitani Ryuu manga from many years ago, which I'm rereading because I've discovered that you can recycle books here, and so am dumping the undistinguished stuff from decades back. Was all ready to trun these ones but realized I couldn't remember a thing about them (a not uncommon occurrence: see that entry) beyond the weirdness when I first tried to read them in 2004. But this time I *am* going in chronological order of publication, and the historical AU is first, not last.

What will you read next?
Either of my impulse purchases of this week: Flora's Fury or Geisha, a Life-- the latter because December is a Kurotsubaki month, but there's no new Kurotsubaki manga

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As I am learning (though, about the upper limb) things are connected way more than you might think! Stuff in your lower back or bum can affect the back of your thighs, as it turns out.

Speaking of pains in limbs ... I wonder if any of you have ever had this ... I sometimes get a pain in my left heel when I walk. This pain comes and goes. I don't think I've done anything to it.

When it comes, it sometimes is the oddest of times. Most noticeably when I wake up and those first steps. Sometimes I walk a lot and every where and nothing and sometimes I walk a lot and everywhere and it comes ... possibly to tell me to rest. Sometimes I'm just resting and I can feel it throbbing. Just there, the heel of my left foot. I'm not overly concerned because it's a bearable-pain-more-like-an-ache thing.

I just wondered if anyone's ever experienced anything like it.

Heel spur/ Plantar fasciitis, by the sound of it. Shortening/ tightening of a tendon, is why it's worse in the morning. Had it myself, couldn't walk barefoot, had to wear sandals always, suddenly went away after 18 months. Google for further info or talk to doctor. Stretching helps but losing weight helps more, alas.

Ahhh thank you. Yes I think that was what I feared it was. Alas the weight thing. I knew that too.

Yes the stretching does help I noticed. Am aiming to do something about the weight thing... it's taking some time though.

I joined a friend in betting money we could lose weight this month. I think she's going to collect. LOL!

I'm told this all the time. Alas, the services of a 24-hour on-call masseuse are beyond my means.