Re: RC: Re: fighting knee injury

[Lucy Chaplin Trumbull <elsie@calweb.com>]

marilyn wiese wrote:
> 
> > Anyway. First I was told by the doctor to baby it for a month.
> > I "kind of" did this and it didn't help much.
> 
> You 'kind of' did this sounds like you really didn't do it  :)  (I never can
> do what the doctor says, very well and without feeling extremely sorry for
> myself :)
...
> Doing a 50 three weeks after you injured your knee is not even remotely
> 'kind of' babying your knee for a month........ :)

No, no, I didn't get around to "babying it for a month" until I'd
been trying to get it to *work* for two months after the initial
injury, and it was still hurting... funny, it never occured to me 
that I might have *injured* it and that "not riding for two weeks"
wasn't sufficient rest.

I babied it for the month of July (injured it in May). It was quite 
good. I got out of mowing the lawn and everything. Patrick would 
sternly tell me to go and sit down. Mind you, he didn't mow the lawn 
either, and now, even though I'm not under orders to "baby it", I 
haven't quite got around to it either. It's about a foot tall.

> Is 'pessary' some kind of made up British word?

No. I just looked it up in my American dictionary and it was
there. Suggest you do too, for the meaning. Think "suppository" <g>.

> I started on these supplements when my
> little dog Brownie had very bad arthritis and needed to take them.  She went
> from acting like an old decrepit dog to being her usual active, alert, agile
> self again (and she is 16 years old now).

This is always a good sign. No placebo effect with dogs. Like when
my Mum cured a dog of excema with homeopathy. She considered it her
finest homeopathy hour, after all the skepticism she's received.

> I do know for a fact that if you find out from a sports specialist,
> what the best strength building exercises are for your injury, and if you do
> these exercises faithfully, you will be able to make your injured part
> stronger and possibly not have any where near the trouble you are having
> now.

Yes! yes! yes! My point exactly. Like I say, each knee injury is
different, so no point just doing an exercise that someone else
recommends for knee injury "x", when you have knee injury "y".

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