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So there's this stretch I do for hip flexxors, where you lie at the edge of the bed and let the leg on that side fall down, then pull your other leg to your chest. It was the one stretch that allowed me to bend my legs at any kind of angle, pre-op. My bed is high and the left leg didn't touch the floor so the stretch was really good. But it didn't work for the right side, because I couldn't keep my right leg from touching. And now, post-op, the left leg always touches the floor. Webpages assure me that knee surgery doesn't make your leg longer, but, well. But also, if I've gained a cm or so on that side, maybe I might be able to get on my old bicycle again, the one that became too high for me in the spring.

Not that this will happen any time soon. I'm grateful for two doors down Chris who said, apropos of his mother's knee surgery, 'You just have to keep working through the scar tissue to get the bend back.' I already have my bend back but I also have scar tissue that hurts when I do my exercises, and at other times as well. Took the rollator over to the supermarket today with everything twinging and cramping, especially the lower back. 'You will be able to walk unassisted after 3 to 5 weeks.' Not me, I won't. I may be developing Tourette's because when everything cramps and stabs like that I start swearing like the sort of lowlife guys I detest. The ones who use fuck as punctuation and adjective and adverb and gerund and whatall. I do it under my breath and of course no one can see my face twisting into a grimace, thank god, but it's occasionally the only way I can make it up my front steps.

Had half a notion of seeing if I could get a booster shot. Answer is no, because everyone 18 and over wants boosters and is willing to sit online for an hour to book them. And obviously I'm pretty much at the bottom of the list anyway- minimal contact with other people, minimal sorties outside, can't use transit, and would have difficulty getting to the vax centre anyway. Also it's possible I'm already in the system, because my second shot was arranged automatically by the people who gave me my first shot. We shall see if they contact me after the 22nd, which is my six months due date.

Oh LJ, how very you you are. I don't want to use your app. Stop posting to it and let me stay in Chrome.

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Shall keep on with it but what with the holidays, the snow, and a half-healed leg it may well be spring before I manage it. Our cases are rising exponentially and frankly, I'd rather the young'uns got boostered before me. If they don't catch it, my chances of not getting it increase too.

And we're still trying to get people their first and second shots as well. The nutso antivaxxers aside, there's a large immigrant population who may not have the language, the confidence, or simply the time to get vaccinated.

We ran into a lot of that this summer. This area has a huge population of migrant workers that everyone knows fewer questions the better because farms need help and people like having the food supply moving.

The pharmacy just needed a name and a date of birth to get reimbursed but even just that little had people worried that they could be tracked.