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Slow and steady
Dear diary,
I took a little break over the past weekend, and failed to keep up with Wim Hof breathing and with the daily pushups, as well as healthy food. Working on re-establishing that now.
Weight is still off, fortunately, because intermittent fasting and 1+ hour of exercise at therapy do their thing. Cold showers are still a part of my routine too.
The therapy itself is the same every day - 1+ hours of exercise, 30 min of electric stimulation, 15 min of icing, and of course the ever painful AP - manual flexing. We are gaining a few degrees per day, at 110 now, with the goal to be at 130 degrees or so by November 9th when my next checkup is.
One new thing at therapy is that I am doing stationary biking now (something those ashamed of the sport call “spinning” 🤡) and it is working fine due to being able to active flex 90 degrees. Not comfortable, but indicative of me being able to actually cycle to therapy soon, hopefully.
The therapy still exhausts me, so it is not uncommon that I just faint when I come home and sleep from noon to 3pm when I have to pick my kid up.
Days are short and exhausting and I cannot maintain work or hobbies to any meaningful degree.
Sleep
Sleeping has been very uncomfortable with the daily increase in pain at therapy, so I have been taking any painkillers I could get my hands on, going as far as reinstating CBD.
I do not know if any of it works since it all hurts all the time, but if I get an extra hour of sleep, it is worth it - a night of sleep makes a world of difference in the next day’s exercise.
Naive
I think it’s funny how while we’re uninitiated, as long as we pay for private therapy we just expect them to take care of everything and to walk out healthy, painlessly.
As if private care means painless care, like you walk into a GTA car-painting shop with a banged-up car and come out the other side good as new.
In fact, private therapy is WAY more painful than public healthcare. In public, you get some electro, optional exercises, and maybe a bit of assisted flexion. The recovery is much less painful, but also takes a year because of this lack of aggression in forcing progress.
Something to keep in mind…
Habits and Experimental
Nothing new, I try to maintain intermittent fasting, exercise, Wim Hof.
The sauna is ready to be delivered, but I have a problem with its placement and will have to build a little sauna shed in the yard to accommodate it. Working on that now…