Monday, May 23, 2005
Back to what passes for normal around here again
When last we left our intrepid heroine (a week ago), she was getting ready to embark on the unexpected thrill ride of a SECOND Dime Listing Day within a week (!) on eBay. Which is a big "huh, say wha'?" to most regular folks, but something like a combo required by law religious holiday to all the eBabes and eBoys.
So this time, since I had already scrambled around to get nice listings of my best stuff, I was TOTALLY unprepared to come up with yet more. That's part of why it took me until yesterday to FINALLY take pictures of the last few remaining things and get them up within their auctions.
I also had a little more going on this week. I went back to the doc about my seriously unsatisfactory knee action. How can I be a proper knee-jerk liberal if my knees refuse to move much at all? I ask you?! Seriously, I had been inspired to do some web research because of noticing a woman with lymphedema while out running errands. As you may or may not know, that's where there is damage to the lymph nodes or vessels (a system that is as extensive and important as the circulatory or nervous systems, but doesn't have nearly as good an agent), so that fluid becomes trapped in one or more extremities and makes them swell up and pretty much stay that way no matter what.
I didn't want this to be that. And I don't think it is, I think it is just regular edema, only a symptom and not a syndrome. You see, I take generic Lasix to help with blood pressure control, and also to combat the tendency to water retention in my feet and legs caused by sitting here at a computer all day. (As I am, uh, pretty much doing now.... What?)
What I think happened is that I got a tolerance for the dosage I was at, and that slow building-up was gradually stressing my knee ligaments because of the stretching (and the extra weight). When the April book sale came around, standing up for five hours, leaning over JUUUST a little, actually gave me a minor sprain. Which I, with my tremendous innate talent, quickly worked up into semi-major ones.
That's my theory, anyway, and the doc thought it seemed sound. So he said to double up on the Lasix, cut down on salt, and don't sit at the computer without moving for hours on end.
Re that last, my little TurboNote timer just went off! So I will now get up and walk, and come back to post some more later!
So this time, since I had already scrambled around to get nice listings of my best stuff, I was TOTALLY unprepared to come up with yet more. That's part of why it took me until yesterday to FINALLY take pictures of the last few remaining things and get them up within their auctions.
I also had a little more going on this week. I went back to the doc about my seriously unsatisfactory knee action. How can I be a proper knee-jerk liberal if my knees refuse to move much at all? I ask you?! Seriously, I had been inspired to do some web research because of noticing a woman with lymphedema while out running errands. As you may or may not know, that's where there is damage to the lymph nodes or vessels (a system that is as extensive and important as the circulatory or nervous systems, but doesn't have nearly as good an agent), so that fluid becomes trapped in one or more extremities and makes them swell up and pretty much stay that way no matter what.
I didn't want this to be that. And I don't think it is, I think it is just regular edema, only a symptom and not a syndrome. You see, I take generic Lasix to help with blood pressure control, and also to combat the tendency to water retention in my feet and legs caused by sitting here at a computer all day. (As I am, uh, pretty much doing now.... What?)
What I think happened is that I got a tolerance for the dosage I was at, and that slow building-up was gradually stressing my knee ligaments because of the stretching (and the extra weight). When the April book sale came around, standing up for five hours, leaning over JUUUST a little, actually gave me a minor sprain. Which I, with my tremendous innate talent, quickly worked up into semi-major ones.
That's my theory, anyway, and the doc thought it seemed sound. So he said to double up on the Lasix, cut down on salt, and don't sit at the computer without moving for hours on end.
Re that last, my little TurboNote timer just went off! So I will now get up and walk, and come back to post some more later!
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