Science, yay and boo

[labelleizzy]

YAY: decent night sleep, banana and limeade for breakfast.
YAY: we got our flu shots on Monday afternoon!
BOO: hips legs and shoulders creaky, ditto spine. I suspect a minor and manageable aftereffect from the flu shot
YAY: after working out with Etty today, she told me to get the foam core roller and roll my back upper and lower, my hips, inner thighs (OW FUCK) AND I ACTUALLY DID IT and feel 27 times better.

BOO: had to do the morning pee cleanup and floor washing again after Tribble pissed on the floor outside the box AGAIN
YAY: got an Rx to help kitty with pain and bloody urine dots
BOO: OMG she sounds like an angry garbage disposal when we give it to her (every 12 hours, coming up on time now
YAY: my cyst is draining!
YAY: hydrocolloid bandages are amazing! The goo is just being sucked up out of the cyst and into the bandage!
YAY: I'm photographing the stages of drainage, it's awesome and gross! (SCIENCE!)
BOO: Had to move my car across the street because the house one over from ours is being demoed.
YAY: I was 6 hours late moving it and didn't get a ticket!
BOO: they haven't started DOING anything yet. *sigh*
YAY: First lunch is 🥭 mango with coconut 🥥 coconut sticky rice and more limeade.
Second lunch TBD.

Comments

[cjsmith]

I see a lot of yay! My sympathies on the cat pee and the pilling. :/ How do you foam roller inner thighs?

[labelleizzy]

Foam rolling inner thighs technique depends on how tight those muscles are on you and how high is your pain tolerance, afaict. Only do this after warming up your whole body!

Yoga mat on floor, lay down on your side. Foam roller next to your hips. Put your top leg over it like cuddling with a friend.

Frequently (almost always) I foam core roller my upper back and glutes, before I will go for my inner thigh. If you relieve tension in other tens places first the thighs aren't quite as painful.

Okay so your leg is over the roller and you adjust your hip and angle till you find tender places. First step from core rolling is to just hang out there and as long as you can tolerate it. Don't actually try to roll over the painful place if it's on the edge of being intolerable. And so, like other massage techniques I've experienced, you can just hang out in one place lift your leg from that place when it gets too painful go find a different place that's tender. In my case the worst places are just above my knee and just below my hip edging towards the back accessing the the part of my inner thigh that's back towards my but t is really difficult, it's just a weird angle to get a foam core roller into. My painful tight places around the knee vary but are pretty reliably on the right leg because that's my surgery leg. I have a really painful tender spot where the quadriceps meet the knee, and also towards the back of the leg, which is I think where the hamstrings come in to the knee?

Tight hams, tight glutes, tight quads, mean more pain for the knee, unless knee flexibility which affects my gait, my ability to sleep well, general functioning and mood.

what I mean to say is I should really be doing this at least like every other week or so maybe more regularly if I want to have more regular access to endorphins!

Once you're more used to a foam core rollering generally (and the inner thigh in particular is famous for being the most painful spot you can roller), you actually progress from resting on the roller to actively moving over the painful spaces. I wind up usually doing both. I rest on the roller in the most painful places until everything relaxes just a little bit, and then I come back over them again in a kind of a rocking motion of my hips and torso to roll the leg over the top of the roller.

Yes it can look like you're humping the roller and making noises that could be pain, could be pleasure. If you're wired like me, eventually it's both, ha ha.

I'm glad Etty taught me the basics of rollering and that I can now do it at home. It was hard (aka embarrassing) to do at the gym without grunting or whining when it was painful.

[cinnamaldehyde]

Ever since you posted this I've had a terrible craving for coconut sticky rice. I hold you entirely responsible! :D I hope yours was amazing!!

[labelleizzy]

It was a delightful meal! (Snack? Eh.)

Hahahahaha I'll take that blame!