Category: Me
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…and believe me I am still alive
7 comments on …and believe me I am still aliveStill here, still working, still good. Still seeing incremental improvements to my knee. Just not updating much :) I have been using a cane. This is both good and bad. Good in that the cane helps my balance when my knee decides to not support me. Bad in that it always takes a hand. You know how you never know how much you use both hands to…
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Vacation Planning
Last August I took a vacation which required a great deal of walking. The opportunity for me to join the man of the house at a convention came up just 2 or 3 weeks before the event, just 5 months after I’d used all the physical therapy my insurance company covers per year so that I could walk. I was keeping to my PT exercises and walking a…
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What’s Enough Exercise?
This started as a conversation over at Spoonforkfuls’ blog. living400lbs Says: […] One of my recurring issues with injuries is finding the line between working out too much and not working out enough…. spoonfork38 Says: Yeah, it’s that definition of ‘enough’ that gets me almost every time. I mean, enough for what, exactly? living400lbs Says: In my case? I’m working out enough if I avoid that nice…
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Questions about being 400lbs?
Do you have questions you’ve been thinking of asking? Ask here. Some answers may turn into posts of their own, or will be answered here. =)
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Ash Wednesday
Today always reminds me of the friend who gave up Catholicism for Lent one year. :) I grew up born-again, in a church that was a megachurch before megachurches were cool, in a small, fairly fundie denomination. I was so “low church” I didn’t know what “low church” was. I was baptized Episcopalian at St Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle when I was 27. I realize it’s not…
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Thankful Thursday
Heidi‘s gratitude postings got me thinking of posting things I’m grateful, or thankful, for in my life. So here’s a few: Got myself psyched up and joined a gym, which gives me more options for building up muscles. Gym salesperson did not push the weight-loss routine. Monday’s snow was pretty, but didn’t bring Seattle to a halt. Going for a walk is easy and doesn’t hurt,…
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Good Thoughts for SJ
This morning the independent musician, singer, songwriter, and all-around nifty person SJ Tucker goes into the hospital to have an ovarian cyst removed. I first heard of ovarian cysts when a friend had one removed that filled a 5-gallon paint bucket. Friend weighed around 330lbs at 5’6″. For over a year she’d known that something was inside her belly. But she didn’t want to deal with doctors.…
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Other People’s Comments
My mother was always on the alert in public. She was fat, after all. People could see her. She was braced for their reactions. At Denny’s, nodding at a stylish woman on the other side of the restaurant: “See how that one’s looking superior? She’s watching me.” At Safeway: “No, we’re not buying Pop Tarts!” (sotto voce) “Everyone’s looking in the basket.” At my aunt’s at Christmas,…
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Fat folks more likely to be Vitamin D-deficient?
I got a phone call from my RNP; my screening tests show no problems, but my vitamin D is still a little low. She suggested I continue to take a 1000iu Vitamin D tablet a day. During my checkup RNP also urged me to start taking a multivitamin again. I have, and it has 400iu of vitamin D too. So now I’m actually getting 1400 iu of…
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Tired Blogger is Tired
We moved into our new workspace this week. The shiny, newly refurbished space is clean, brightly lit, and rather nice. We have a new “lounge” space, decks for occasional fresh air, and the new layout is more organized in a lot of ways. …and between the new carpet, new paint, and much brighter overhead lights I’ve had headaches all week. Any weight-related notes? Um, if I grasp…
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Fit or Not Fit
This came in as a comment to one of the “Day in the life” posts. One movement involves leaning forward; this irritates my lower back so I substitute something else. Jesus! You’re practically crippled by your weight. A normal person would be able to do this easily. It”s enough of a workout to get my heart into the aerobic range If a bit of shuffling around gets…
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Why This Blog is Anonymous, or On Not Coming Out
Recently I told a few more real-life friends about this blog, which caused me to do more thinking about why it’s anonymous. And really? What it comes down to is this: I don’t want a potential employer’s first hits on my name to be: My family health history How my size affects sex Jock itch Stress incontinence And, yes, that I weigh 400lbs …and so on. Cowardly,…
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