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Thursday, August 19th, 2021 08:49 pmIf I wonder whether acupuncture is doing me any good, the answer comes when I have to do without it. Over two weeks now and my knee will. not. stop. hurting no matter what brace I use on it. So yeah.
The shower bench I bought in the spring proved to be too wide for my oddly shaped bathtub. It fit, but barely, and was awkward to put in and get out, and was actually too low for getting up from comfortably. So I bought a round stool instead which sat in its box for two months until this week when I made a Do This Now list. Put it together this evening, noting and disregarding the warning ' Not for use in the bath.' I suppose there are people who have shower stalls separate from their bathtubs, but that's either for suburban folk and the very rich, what have acres of space to waste, or the poor who have no bathtubs at all. I will use it in the shower, feet for the washing of, until my acupuncturist gets back and my left knee can bend again. Also it's two inches higher than the bench, which I hope will help.
Kind roofer helped me get my rollator down the front steps so I asked him what day they'd be doing my back bunker roof, that being the day I don't hang laundry on the line. He knew nothing about any back bunker roof: the cupolas tomorrow and then done. I should probably text NND and get him to ask, but will wait to see if it gets done before the bill comes-- either because the boss has contracted it out to someone else or because he's forgotten about it. Am still in two minds about that. If I sell the house, first thing the new owners will do is tear that excrescence off, which is a waste of $1000. If I'm able-bodied enough to go on living here after the surgery, *I* might tear the thing off myself, whic is also a waste of $1000. And if, as happened before, some racoon goes nosing about for ants and breaks through the rotten shingles, well, that's time enough to reroof then.
The shower bench I bought in the spring proved to be too wide for my oddly shaped bathtub. It fit, but barely, and was awkward to put in and get out, and was actually too low for getting up from comfortably. So I bought a round stool instead which sat in its box for two months until this week when I made a Do This Now list. Put it together this evening, noting and disregarding the warning ' Not for use in the bath.' I suppose there are people who have shower stalls separate from their bathtubs, but that's either for suburban folk and the very rich, what have acres of space to waste, or the poor who have no bathtubs at all. I will use it in the shower, feet for the washing of, until my acupuncturist gets back and my left knee can bend again. Also it's two inches higher than the bench, which I hope will help.
Kind roofer helped me get my rollator down the front steps so I asked him what day they'd be doing my back bunker roof, that being the day I don't hang laundry on the line. He knew nothing about any back bunker roof: the cupolas tomorrow and then done. I should probably text NND and get him to ask, but will wait to see if it gets done before the bill comes-- either because the boss has contracted it out to someone else or because he's forgotten about it. Am still in two minds about that. If I sell the house, first thing the new owners will do is tear that excrescence off, which is a waste of $1000. If I'm able-bodied enough to go on living here after the surgery, *I* might tear the thing off myself, whic is also a waste of $1000. And if, as happened before, some racoon goes nosing about for ants and breaks through the rotten shingles, well, that's time enough to reroof then.
