I learned a couple of things at practice this morning:
1. Pivots go much better when you really, really bend the knee of the leg you're pivoting on.
2. My knees can only take about three of these before they scream for mercy.
I'm just going to go ahead and assume that sit spins will not have a place in my future.
I finally managed some successful ballet jumps--on both sides, even! They aren't pretty, but the jump part is there, so I'll take them. I also figured out a way to differentiate between left and right on the backwards power stroking that works for me. I can't remember which knee to bend, but I can remember which hip to stick out. Eh, whatever works.
In other news, I made an appointment at the sinus/asthma/allergy clinic to look into this sinus infection I've been attempting to ignore since I threw antibiotics at it in early December. It's so low grade that I was hoping it would just go away without intervention, but a few weeks ago I hit the point where I have to run the water until it gets hot when I brush my teeth because the left side of my mouth can't handle cold things anymore, and I get the impression this state of affairs will just keep on keeping on until something medical is done. Plus this week's storm system caused everything to hurt more than usual.
The clinic requires FOUR HOURS of my time for a first appointment. They do this for all patients. Apparently they put you through a full battery of allergy tests, plus other diagnostic tools as needed (x-rays for sinuses, etc.). I guess I can see the logic, in that they would like to treat the cause of a recurrent infection rather than just the symptoms, but I cannot deny I was hoping they would just give me bigger badder drugs and send me on my way. I don't think an allergy test is going to tell them more than I can myself, having lived with allergies for many years now. Trees bloom, I sneeze. I'm around cats, I sneeze. I put on a latex glove or bandage, I break out in hives. Loratadine is my friend. Ta-da.
However, the free employee health clinic has banned me from coming back with another sinus infection, so I kind of have no choice. Bah.
This weekend: Taxes. (I suspect I may spend my refund on medical bills. Bah again.)
1. Pivots go much better when you really, really bend the knee of the leg you're pivoting on.
2. My knees can only take about three of these before they scream for mercy.
I'm just going to go ahead and assume that sit spins will not have a place in my future.
I finally managed some successful ballet jumps--on both sides, even! They aren't pretty, but the jump part is there, so I'll take them. I also figured out a way to differentiate between left and right on the backwards power stroking that works for me. I can't remember which knee to bend, but I can remember which hip to stick out. Eh, whatever works.
In other news, I made an appointment at the sinus/asthma/allergy clinic to look into this sinus infection I've been attempting to ignore since I threw antibiotics at it in early December. It's so low grade that I was hoping it would just go away without intervention, but a few weeks ago I hit the point where I have to run the water until it gets hot when I brush my teeth because the left side of my mouth can't handle cold things anymore, and I get the impression this state of affairs will just keep on keeping on until something medical is done. Plus this week's storm system caused everything to hurt more than usual.
The clinic requires FOUR HOURS of my time for a first appointment. They do this for all patients. Apparently they put you through a full battery of allergy tests, plus other diagnostic tools as needed (x-rays for sinuses, etc.). I guess I can see the logic, in that they would like to treat the cause of a recurrent infection rather than just the symptoms, but I cannot deny I was hoping they would just give me bigger badder drugs and send me on my way. I don't think an allergy test is going to tell them more than I can myself, having lived with allergies for many years now. Trees bloom, I sneeze. I'm around cats, I sneeze. I put on a latex glove or bandage, I break out in hives. Loratadine is my friend. Ta-da.
However, the free employee health clinic has banned me from coming back with another sinus infection, so I kind of have no choice. Bah.
This weekend: Taxes. (I suspect I may spend my refund on medical bills. Bah again.)
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