new comfy chair! (maybe)

31 Friday Jul 2026

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A couple of weeks ago I got it into my head that I needed a new comfy chair. Why? I mean, my present comfy chair is still comfy enough, but it’s kind of a wreck now (mostly thanks to Morcilla) and it was second hand when I got it in 2011 (to replace my previous second hand comfy chair – inherited from Agustín – that had literally fallen apart). I started looking around online at the usual places (IKEA, Leroy Merlin, El Corte Inglés) and there was one possibility for a reasonable price at ECI so I went to check it out. And well, it was crap. Cheaply made and decidedly not comfy. And then this one caught my eye.

Unfortunately Bonnie (it’s the model name, I didn’t make it up) was way out of the ballpark and I asked the sales guy if it might be discounted during the summer sales. He said that particular model didn’t usually go on sale but I could check back. Well instead I checked on line every morning and then yesterday there it was… 15% off for four days only! Which was still too expensive but I had tried her out and was kind of hooked because Bonnie was indeed very comfy. And so I went back to ECI and the same sales guy was there. He remembered me and said he was hoping I’d see the sale. Anyhow… it turned out that there would be no new stock available until August 25th, with delivery in early September, so I decided to buy the chair to lock down the price and then decide later if I should actually keep it. As Peter pointed out, it’s the last chair I’m going to buy in my lifetime so why not? We’ll see.

shoulder shot

27 Monday Jul 2026

Posted by in health, hospitals, knee saga, knees, sevilla

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So I went to see the traumatologist today about The Shoulder and, after a few questions, the doc went straight to giving me a cortisone injection, which was totally fine by me. I did tell her that when they gave me the same thing for my knee last year nothing happened and she looked at me calmly and said “that doesn’t mean that this won’t help you now”. And I guess so? I mean, the other one was for pretty much bone-on-bone knee pain (with a torn meniscus thrown in), and this is apparently a tendon problem.

Subscapularis tendinosis. Chronic enthesopathy of the subscapularis, subacromial-subdeltoid bursitis, degenerative changes in the acromioclavicular joint.

Anyhow, I was told it could take 2-3 days before I notice any difference and, meanwhile, to use the arm as little as possible. So no chair workouts involving weights for now. I was also given a print out of other exercises to do, which look pretty straightforward. I can just add them to my daily workout routine.

The (possible) good news is that if it does work then my shoulder pain should be greatly reduced for several months. And if it doesn’t? Then I’m supposed to make another appointment via my GP for a second shot. And since I’m seeing the GP again in three weeks to update my mounjaro prescription that’ll work out. So fingers crossed this helps! Meanwhile, four weeks in with mounjaro (and my tweaks) and this morning I was down by 4 kilos.👍Still the tip of the iceberg, but it’s actually more than the 2-3 kilos a month I was hoping for.