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icepixieDoes my entire musculoskeletal system, like, hate me or something? According to the orthopaedist I saw today, apparently I have developed hypermobility of the sacroiliac joints. This explains the lower back freakouts I get every year or two. Getting older and less resilient explains the fact that it's moved from acute to chronic over the last month, as well as the new and exciting hip pains that have developed in that time frame.
The answer, as it usually is, is strengthening the associated muscles through physical therapy to stabilize the joint. Another regimen of exercises to add to the two sets I already do, hooray. On the other hand, at least it doesn't require surgery! It could be worse.
Sacroiliac joint problems are, to what I can't say is my surprise, fairly common among figure skaters because of the stress of landing jumps when your body is fairly twisted. Apparently my body wants to have ALL the common overuse injuries RIGHT AWAY, despite the fact that I only have two half-jumps that even get off the ground right now.
They are also much more common in women than men, much like my particular kind of knee problems are, not to mention the endometriosis. I suspect my body may be trying to tell me it wanted to be a man.
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First, a thing about "One Giant Leap" I completely forgot to mention: Beckett and McMurphy attempting romance for a microsecond. I shipped them ever so slightly in S1, so that part of me went "awwww." And the rest of me was glad they decided it was too awkward and remained friends, although obviously Beckett was rather bummed about it.
Also, OH MY GOD, MCMURPHY HELPING EVERETT SHOOT HIS OWN TOE OFF SO HE COULD GO HOME BECAUSE THAT WAS BETTER THAN GOING BACK OUT. Damn, the show got bleak this season.
"The Call" just kind of confused me on a couple of levels, because there's Frankie having her post-Vietnam story, and I'm expecting a complementary in-Vietnam story, except...we get another McMurphy story? Where Dodger is a long-term aid worker in the highlands despite being the single father of a small child, whom he has left with his parents back home despite claiming he wanted to go back and raise him? Hmm.
I did like McMurphy spray-painting the names of the dead soldiers on the hospital exterior, though. It was a little cheap, but an effective echo of the Wall in DC nonetheless.
"I Could Have Danced All Night...But Didn't": I THINK WE ALL KNOW MY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS ONE, OH, MY HEART. :( :( :( :( :(
Richard could totally have pushed the issue rather than giving into McMurphy's martyring of herself (and him, for that matter), though. I don't know if she would've come around, but he could've tried. On the other hand, McMurphy is on the train to Seriously Screwed Upville and about to pull into the station by this point, so maybe it would've just ended in tears. (I am, of course, of the opinion that part of the reason she went so nuts was that she returned to her mother in a tiny town and was stifled and directionless, whereas being somewhere bigger--say, Boston--with someone who'd been through the same horrors she'd been through--say, Richard--and being out from under the weight of her past relationship with her mother and the ghost of her father might've let her grow in more productive directions, or at least not led her to flail quite so much.)
"100 Klicks Out" was really great. KC's story more than McMurphy's--although that one gets more nuanced and even sadder in the context of the next episode, where she says six years earlier that she's stopped drinking. But heh, KC definitely got cursed with a child exactly like her.
"The Always Goodbye" was also nice, though again very bittersweet. :( KC as the doting mother of a two-year-old kind of cracked me up, though, I have to admit.
The answer, as it usually is, is strengthening the associated muscles through physical therapy to stabilize the joint. Another regimen of exercises to add to the two sets I already do, hooray. On the other hand, at least it doesn't require surgery! It could be worse.
Sacroiliac joint problems are, to what I can't say is my surprise, fairly common among figure skaters because of the stress of landing jumps when your body is fairly twisted. Apparently my body wants to have ALL the common overuse injuries RIGHT AWAY, despite the fact that I only have two half-jumps that even get off the ground right now.
They are also much more common in women than men, much like my particular kind of knee problems are, not to mention the endometriosis. I suspect my body may be trying to tell me it wanted to be a man.
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First, a thing about "One Giant Leap" I completely forgot to mention: Beckett and McMurphy attempting romance for a microsecond. I shipped them ever so slightly in S1, so that part of me went "awwww." And the rest of me was glad they decided it was too awkward and remained friends, although obviously Beckett was rather bummed about it.
Also, OH MY GOD, MCMURPHY HELPING EVERETT SHOOT HIS OWN TOE OFF SO HE COULD GO HOME BECAUSE THAT WAS BETTER THAN GOING BACK OUT. Damn, the show got bleak this season.
"The Call" just kind of confused me on a couple of levels, because there's Frankie having her post-Vietnam story, and I'm expecting a complementary in-Vietnam story, except...we get another McMurphy story? Where Dodger is a long-term aid worker in the highlands despite being the single father of a small child, whom he has left with his parents back home despite claiming he wanted to go back and raise him? Hmm.
I did like McMurphy spray-painting the names of the dead soldiers on the hospital exterior, though. It was a little cheap, but an effective echo of the Wall in DC nonetheless.
"I Could Have Danced All Night...But Didn't": I THINK WE ALL KNOW MY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS ONE, OH, MY HEART. :( :( :( :( :(
Richard could totally have pushed the issue rather than giving into McMurphy's martyring of herself (and him, for that matter), though. I don't know if she would've come around, but he could've tried. On the other hand, McMurphy is on the train to Seriously Screwed Upville and about to pull into the station by this point, so maybe it would've just ended in tears. (I am, of course, of the opinion that part of the reason she went so nuts was that she returned to her mother in a tiny town and was stifled and directionless, whereas being somewhere bigger--say, Boston--with someone who'd been through the same horrors she'd been through--say, Richard--and being out from under the weight of her past relationship with her mother and the ghost of her father might've let her grow in more productive directions, or at least not led her to flail quite so much.)
"100 Klicks Out" was really great. KC's story more than McMurphy's--although that one gets more nuanced and even sadder in the context of the next episode, where she says six years earlier that she's stopped drinking. But heh, KC definitely got cursed with a child exactly like her.
"The Always Goodbye" was also nice, though again very bittersweet. :( KC as the doting mother of a two-year-old kind of cracked me up, though, I have to admit.
