SKATES THAT FIT!
Mar. 21st, 2019 06:59 pmMy second attempt at custom boots, this time with Avanta, arrived, and they fit. They fit so, so incredibly well. I skated for more than an hour this morning with ZERO pain or numbness. I mean, nothing. It was like wearing stiff sneakers. The first time! Without breaking them in! Hell, with my old Jacksons it took two years to be able to skate for an hour without taking them off halfway through, and I never got to a point where they didn't hurt at all.
As you might imagine, I am over the moon. I truly thought I was going to have to stop skating. (I would have, if these didn't work.) I've spent the last 20 months either off the ice or on it in painful 5-10-minute spurts (or in broken-down boots I couldn't do much in), so going to the rink had frankly become kind of a dismal experience that I dreaded. Because of boot issues, I pretty much stopped learning new things back in summer 2017. Now I can look forward to skating, and have lessons again, and learn new stuff!
...Once I remember the old stuff. I haven't skated for the last three months, so today was pretty wobbly, but you know, at this point I'm simply grateful to be able to go around in circles. The rest will come back.
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I started planting things in my garden this weekend. Snapdragons did well last year, so I got more, and some phlox for phun. I planted a bunch of gladiolus-type bulbs. And I'm trying spinach this year. We probably have 4-5 weeks till it gets hot enough to bolt, so to be honest I expect maybe two salads out of my crop (assuming the local critters don't eat it), but that would be cool. I picked a few leaves the other day to put on a sandwich, and they definitely taste better and fresher than store-bought.
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Finally, since the last time I posted here, I got a new diagnosis added to my list: Asthma. Yes, apparently sometime over the last year I became a closet asthmatic. I had a cough that started back in July and just never really went away, so I asked my doctor about it at my physical a couple of weeks ago. I was thinking persistent low-level sinus infection with drip that was irritating my cough reflex, but the sinus x-ray came back clear, so we started a trial of Advair (daily inhaled steroid). It was miraculous. My cough silenced within an hour of taking the first dose. I also noticed about a 25% improvement in my chest capacity upon inhaling the first dose, too.
Ah, well. At least it's fixable. I like diseases that are fixable.
As you might imagine, I am over the moon. I truly thought I was going to have to stop skating. (I would have, if these didn't work.) I've spent the last 20 months either off the ice or on it in painful 5-10-minute spurts (or in broken-down boots I couldn't do much in), so going to the rink had frankly become kind of a dismal experience that I dreaded. Because of boot issues, I pretty much stopped learning new things back in summer 2017. Now I can look forward to skating, and have lessons again, and learn new stuff!
...Once I remember the old stuff. I haven't skated for the last three months, so today was pretty wobbly, but you know, at this point I'm simply grateful to be able to go around in circles. The rest will come back.
*
I started planting things in my garden this weekend. Snapdragons did well last year, so I got more, and some phlox for phun. I planted a bunch of gladiolus-type bulbs. And I'm trying spinach this year. We probably have 4-5 weeks till it gets hot enough to bolt, so to be honest I expect maybe two salads out of my crop (assuming the local critters don't eat it), but that would be cool. I picked a few leaves the other day to put on a sandwich, and they definitely taste better and fresher than store-bought.
*
Finally, since the last time I posted here, I got a new diagnosis added to my list: Asthma. Yes, apparently sometime over the last year I became a closet asthmatic. I had a cough that started back in July and just never really went away, so I asked my doctor about it at my physical a couple of weeks ago. I was thinking persistent low-level sinus infection with drip that was irritating my cough reflex, but the sinus x-ray came back clear, so we started a trial of Advair (daily inhaled steroid). It was miraculous. My cough silenced within an hour of taking the first dose. I also noticed about a 25% improvement in my chest capacity upon inhaling the first dose, too.
Ah, well. At least it's fixable. I like diseases that are fixable.
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