Don't tread on me

[flemmings]

Must share the smug. Ten days ago my left knee went on strike, as it were. Refused to bear pull my its weight. I spent the weekend going up and down stairs One. Step. At. A. Time. My doctor said arthritis or a stray piece of cartilage poking, while I say it's my stupid screwed-up archless weak-ankled hyper-flexible flat feet pulling everything out of alignment. Whatever. Logic suggested that since I could stand on the thing, just, if I leaned on the bannister and put less weight on it, having less weight to put on it generally must also help.

I am now ten pounds lighter than I was ten days ago, and I'm not actually starving to death. Any more, at least. Go me.

(This rate won't continue, naturally, but I think the process may for a while before the inevitable plateau. I did it last February post-operation when I couldn't eat very much, and now I'm running after rug-rats seven hours a day on top of it. They say it helps asthma too, so here's hoping.)

Oh, and the usual packages go out tomorrow. And arrive in January if past experience proves reliable.

Comments

[incandescens]

Congratulations!

(You're doing better than I am re rate and amount. Darn it. Why, yes, I too am trying to get lighter, and the whole sniffing helium thing doesn't work, as witness the Hindenburg.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ordinarily it's an awful time to be doing this- was just wistfully eyeing the 'dainty pack' of little cakes and tarts at the super. But the threat or actual presence of pain is a great incentive not to eat. I suppose I must consider myself fortunate that pain is present without my having to go look for it. (/silver lining)

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Yeek! Please be careful. Remember that sudden absence of knee is precisely how Someone Stupid broke her foot.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh? Where did the knee go to? Just wasn't there suddenly, as in ancient sports injury come back to haunt you?

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Dunno! Once in a while, it likes to go on vacation. But I don't go with. ^^;