Category Archives: health & happiness

da finga – redux

27 Wednesday Jun 2007

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da-finga.jpg Not looking much better, is it? Six weeks later.

In fact it looks a bit like an angry chorizo. Doesn’t feel too good either. 😦

Last week I started physiotherapy at a place recommended by my surgeon. A friend of his – a ‘hand specialist’ no less. Yeah right.

I showed up for the first appointment last Thursday and the ‘hand specialist’ was nowhere in sight. The attendent looked quite miffed when I said I wanted to speak to him before they started doing anything to my hand, so about half an hour later I got to see The Man. He said it would take at least ten daily sessions to start off with and then sent me out to get started. Turns out this specialist doesn’t actually touch patients – he has a bunch of minions (most of them look fresh out of grad school) doing all the work.

My ‘treatment’ turned out to be ten minutes under an infrared heat lamp, two minutes under a laser beam and then a five-minute massage. And each 17-minute treatment not only cost money but also took more than two hours out of my life (one hour just getting there and back). So I went again on Friday and then again on Monday morning … and walked out never to return. It was so packed in there on Monday that I was going to have to wait almost two hours for my 17-minute treatment. Which frankly I can do at home. So that’s what I’m doing now.

I can use my hair drier to heat up da finga and instead of the laser I’ll just glare at it (The Rayâ„¢). And I’m way better at massaging than the two ‘therapists’ I experienced. Boy, ineptitude and disorganisation really bug me – especially when it comes to my health. I still half-suspect the op wasn’t even necessary but I’m not going there (for now) . . .

da finga

31 Thursday May 2007

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Yay! f_somersault.gif

Got the pin out this afternoon. And the bloody cast/bandage contraption is finally gone, which feels wonderful after 17 days of it.

Da Finga is still quite swollen and its mates have become rather unbendy as well, but it’s great having a bit more dexterity – though I’ll have to be very careful not to overdo it. But just being able to use the thumb with the index finger makes all the difference.

So although puffy and still a bit painful, at least my hand can breathe again.

That’ll do for now. 🙂

sick in bed

30 Wednesday May 2007

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. . . all day long!

It’s been a long time since I’ve been sick like this. And I’m not even sure what it is. Last night my stomach felt a bit queasy just before bed and then today from about 6am – 4pm I had the most incredible lower abdominal cramps and serious ‘dire rear’. It finally eased up around 5 o’clock and for the past couple of hours I’ve been gently wandering around the flat. Too much time in bed tends to made my lower back seize up and I definitely don’t need a bout of sciatica along with aching hand in sling and painful abdomen.

Anyhow, it’s been just an awful day. I can’t remember ever experiencing pain like that before – or at least not for so long. It’s rather ironic that I’d get so sick shortly after starting on a healthier lifestyle thang, but can’t be food related because Nog & I ate the same stuff yesterday and he’s fine.

I’m starting to feel a bit hungry now – it’s almost 8pm and all I’ve had today is water. But I’m kind of afraid to try anything solid at this point. Maybe some chicken soup?

Ah well, tomorrow’s another day . . .

making changes…

28 Monday May 2007

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I’ve got a new blog!

Well, it’s actually an old private blog I started last year with a few friends who were interested in creating a fitness & weight loss support group. After awhile it started to fizzle out and yesterday I noticed that nobody had posted there in months.

And since today I am yet again embarking on new and healthier chapter of my life (Mondays are nice starting off days for me) I decided to revamp and revive this old blog and also change it into a public one.

So if anyone else doing stuff related to health & fitness, weight-loss, general well-being and lifestyle changes, and if you would like to contribute, please feel very welcome to do so. And though it might appear at first glance to be ‘women oriented’ it isn’t meant to be just for women. I’ve started it off with a few of the original posts.

nothing ventured…

honesty

22 Tuesday May 2007

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Always the best policy?

I tend to think so, but it seems like I’m in the minority. I mean, no matter how hard or painful a truth is to accept or to swallow… isn’t it always way worse to be fed a regurgitated pablum-like semblance of truth? As in, what people think you want to hear. As in … lies.

Who are people actually protecting when they lie or are otherwise ‘easygoing’ with the truth? Well, themselves first of all. Aren’t all lies acts of cowardice? I mean sure, the liar might say they were trying to protect you … but in most cases you will find they were just covering their own sorry arse as a particular truth might have meant serious repercussions for them.

The very worst thing about the truth is that it ends up being something possibly very difficult you have to face, whether you want to or not (well, unless you end up lying to yourself). But at least it’s something real that you can work through.

The worst thing about lies is that they never stop. You tell one, you’ll end up having to tell another one to back it up, and then another one, and so on and so forth. And being unreal, there isn’t a damn thing you can do about them.

So you end up having no place to feel secure – no solid bit of ground to put your own two feet – when the people around you are lying to you or about you, often saying it’s ‘for your own good’. Which is just another lie as the only ‘good’ it serves is to make things easier on the liar.

The truth may hurt at times, but it’s actually lies that have the power to destroy.