#fromsmallvilletosuperman

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

Have you heard from GainsOfMythicality, Tabs? I miss them a lot 😔

No, I haven’t heard from them recently. We’ve lost touch. We had been FB friends, but they seem to have dropped off there too. I miss them too.

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

What happened to tabby? I never see them anymore :(

Hi, I’m friends with tabby, who was fromsmallvilletosuperman, on facebook and is doing well, but I think tabby just got off tumblr for various reasons.

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

Hello. I used to follow a girl who I think may have been a friend of yours? I can't remember her name but she was very pretty with freckles and often had short bright blue hair. Is she still on Tumblr?

Hi,

You’re thinking of Tabby, who used to be fromsmallvilletosuperman   , and no, they aren’t on tumblr anymore. If you want to message me off anon, I can put them in touch with you on FB if you’d like.

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

Sowing the Seeds of Gratitude: May 20, 2016

I woke up this morning and my back was KILLING ME. I couldn’t stand up straight, it REALLY HURT.  First remedy before calling the Chiropractor? Gravity alignment in my aerial yoga hammock.  @circusoul

I hung like a bat (first picture) for a few minutes, breathing DEEPLY and saying ‘release’ on every exhale. Finally, I felt my back POP, and the pain subside. I stayed that way a while longer, still breathing deeply and saying ‘release’ or ‘relax’ on every exhale until I was sure there were no more POPs to be had.

Then I let my legs unhook from the hammock and go backwards, stretching my back into as much of a backbend as it is capable of, basically stretching it the opposite way that it was stuck in when I got out of bed.  I held that for maybe a minute, sat up, stood up and ... WA-LA .. pain is gone. I could actually stand up straight. 

I am SO GRATEFUL for this aerial yoga hammock, @circusoul .  Even though it’s in my garage here, not the most beautiful surroundings for it, it WORKS. And that just saved me a trip to the chiropractor (or maybe a FEW trips) and gave me immediate relief from my chronic pain (injured it when I was about 9-10 years old and have had back problems ever since. There is one spot with basically no disc material left between the bones, so if they shift, it’s a problem.).

I am also grateful to Tabby, (AKA: @fromsmallvilletosuperman - now deleted), for showing me that big people can use these hammocks, that they are safe and fun and effective!   I will forever be grateful to him for opening my eyes to this!  I can’t begin to express how much this has changed my life! 

[chubbychummy]

Nerdy Gym

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

If fromsmallvilletosuper deactivated his account, why are you still tagging them in your recent posts? I hope I'm not being rude, I'm generally curious and really miss his blog, he made some good food :C

Because that way he can look at the tag and still follow my personal posts easily. Just because he doesn’t have a blog anymore doesn’t mean he doesn’t keep in touch with tumblr friends.  Also, I’m hoping one day he’ll come back and I just refuse to take his name out of my ‘friends’ tag for that reason. 

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

3/31/2016 Update on my knee:

I went today for a second opinion with another doctor regarding my knee. He took new xrays because he said not all the angles were in the first ones. That annoyed me, but, okay, fine. I also was there over an hour before I actually saw the doctor, that annoyed me too. But, I tried hard to not get too annoyed and forget all my questions.

So, the bottom line is: 

He looked at the MRI and could not see any ‘obvious tearing’. 

He sees arthritis behind my knee cap and he thinks that perhaps I aggravated that when I fell and that is what is causing the discomfort.

He pushed and prodded and bent my knee this way and that and wrote down what hurt and what didn’t. Basically, where it SHOULD hurt if my meniscus is torn is not where it hurts.

The place that hurts the worst when he prods it is down on my tibia where the hamstring tendon attaches below the knee. He said that seems to be bursitis that got aggravated. 

He recommended a cortisone shot and 2 weeks of rest. As in NO IMPACT on the knee for TWO WEEKS to let the cortisone work  :(  I specifically asked about what his definition of ‘take it easy’ was to get him to clarify ‘no impact’. He said I could swim and that was about it.

He said surgery was always an option later if this didn’t work.

I went ahead and got the cortisone shot and that’s why I’m icing my knee. The last cortisone shot I got in my shoulder made it impossible for me to move my arm for about 24 hours.  I hope that doesn’t happen to my knee!  I’ve called to cancel the surgery with the other doctor.

I want this fixed, but typically I am very much in favor of the most conservative treatment option first, so this feels more ‘right’ to me, despite the 2 weeks of rest he’s wanting. I’m thinking if it feels better in one week, I can at least go back to walking.

So, I’m feeling better about this and have cancelled the surgery, but feeling bummed that I have to take it easy for two weeks. The water here is too cold for me to swim in. The Y costs and arm and a leg to join. The public pools don’t open until May. There is a water zumba class nearby, but it’s only one day a week. It just occurred to me that maybe I could swim at the pool where the water zumba is -- I need to check that out. It’s technically in a different town, so I’m not sure if non-residents can use it or what the cost would be, and I need to check to make sure it’s heated. There are tons of pools at the hotels around here, but I haven’t done the old ‘pool crashing’ thing since I was in my teens.   

So, it looks like I’ll be working upper body and core, and doing non-impact leg work, like leg lifts and stuff like that for a while unless I can find a heated pool nearby that I can use. 

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

So, apparently, I tore my meniscus. It’s not a bad tear, as they go, from what I understand, but it is torn. In fact, the written report from the MRI reader person said there was ‘no tear’. Which had me questioning the doctor quite a lot about it, but he pulled it up on two different views and showed it to me. I wanted to doubt him, but I know that I heard it pop, and now it’s ‘clicking’ quite a lot, which he says is tear rubbing back and forth.  And I can see what he’s looking at there, so it got kinda hard to argue with him.  :(

Well, fuck.

Surgery April 5th. Crutches for 2 days. Physical Therapy after that I guess (I’ve not been too impressed with PT in the past, so this may be a one time thing for them to show me what to do and then I’ll just do it at home). He said I should be back to the level of movement/pain I’m in now a week after the surgery. And, then it should continue to get better, of course. 

My stomach started doing flip-flops in the doctor’s office as they were scheduling the surgery and still hasn’t quite settled down. All my friends assure me that it ‘won’t be that bad’ and shouldn’t take ‘that long’ to get better. 

All surgery is ‘that bad’ and one HOUR of recovery is too long. 

Trying to be grateful that it’s not worse and should be a routine fix.