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Updates: Life, The Ankle and Everything
Oct. 11th, 2002 09:54 amAnkle first. The break is healed; the sprain damage is healing slowly but surely... so naturally something new had to happen. Earlier this week, for no apparent reason, the muscles throughout my foot and leg started cramping and knotting up incredibly badly. So now I’m getting deep muscle massages and ultrasound treatments on the worst spots; doing lots more stretching and a bit less strength work; and I’m supposed to apply heat to my toes and calf several times, while still icing the actual ankle joint (where I’m still having trouble with swelling). Complicated! Contrast baths help a lot right now-- I can do heat on the entire lower leg, and then concentrate the cold on the ankle, and repeat several times. I’m making good progress but this is SO frustrating!
Life.... I’ve been struggling a bit with feeling isolated again, and for a few days felt very much like going into hiding instead. But then I kept reading on LJ how others of my friends felt the same way, so I decided to fight back. I’m writing more, regardless of responses; trying to spend more time on meaningful responses to other folk, especially those who are obviously struggling with the same feeling of isolation; and continuing to do what I have to do to stop investing my energy in relationships with people who don’t have the time or energy to offer me real friendship. It’s not easy, but it does help, slowly.
And everything... how wonderful that Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I never would have dreamed, at the end of his presidency, that he would do so much good in so many ways in the years to come.
Life.... I’ve been struggling a bit with feeling isolated again, and for a few days felt very much like going into hiding instead. But then I kept reading on LJ how others of my friends felt the same way, so I decided to fight back. I’m writing more, regardless of responses; trying to spend more time on meaningful responses to other folk, especially those who are obviously struggling with the same feeling of isolation; and continuing to do what I have to do to stop investing my energy in relationships with people who don’t have the time or energy to offer me real friendship. It’s not easy, but it does help, slowly.
And everything... how wonderful that Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I never would have dreamed, at the end of his presidency, that he would do so much good in so many ways in the years to come.
