I was never too sure because there was a year's delay in getting a
proper diagnosis, but I think the cause of the rotator cuff injury was
backpacking in New Zealand. I had a bad habit of grabbing my backpack
and just slinging it over my right shoulder and not balancing it
properly on both shoulders. I didn't have those frame type things you
see that balance the weight better. And when I got home from NZ I
decided I wanted to be a tennis star and started taking tennis lessons.
It was a short-lived ambition and I soon had to give it up (Besides I
only was good with the back hand and apparently you can't play a full
game of tennis using only backhand shots.)
My work as a newspaper reporter also aggravated the situation. My days
-and lots of nights-were spent either taking notes or typing on the
computer keyboard. Lots of tension there so that was no help. Eventually
I found a really good physiotherapist who got me going in the right
direction.
I have had arthritis since I was 28 or 29. But I have been lucky. It was
usually not severe enough to interfere with my way of life. However in
the last couple of years it has really ratcheted up , hands the worst,
and starting to interfere with tasks and beginning to present some daily
living challenges.
In yoga, as one example, I have lost a lot of range of motion in my
knees. So when I sit cross-legged now my knees are way up off the floor.
And there are a few positions that I can't do now-trying to think of the
names but I think one was pigeon pose maybe. Anyway some yoga is better
than none at all.
Sorry if this is boring everyone else in DW. Just nice to talk about
something else besides Wednesday's insurrection on the Capitol.
Lots of Canadians upset about this in case you were wondering. Another
group I am in (Unitarians) have been posting lots. One person said we
shouldn't be paying so much attention to the US news. Boy, everybody was
all over the poor guy. But really people are upset and just want to
talk, or write about it. We can't gather in groups in the pandemic so
people need an outlet. A couple of people phoned me because they know I
am into politics and said they just needed to talk to someone.
Thing is we have those same groups here, white supremacists, neo-Nazis,
conspiracy theorists. And I think it is the Qanon group that is headed
by a Canadian. So this could happen in our capital too-and our
94-year-old Queen won't be coming to protect us.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Marya F" <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/9/2021 7:44:03 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
Glenna,
Yay Adriene! (My Rocky interpretation)
Wow — our shoulder injuries sound identical. I have arthritis, too.
I am currently a bit of a bursitis queen (all how). Right elbow, right shoulder, left hip, left knee.
It’s so weird. I’m trying many remedies... but it’s all slow moving. Literally.
xo, m
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 5:15 PM Glenna Hanley <ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Oh my goodness Marya. I also discovered Adrienne's yoga on You Tube. I am accustomed to going to the gym three mornings a week, two classes are strength and one yoga class. Went I went Christmas shopping I discovered what no gym classes since March has done to my body. I was shopping less than an hour and started getting terrible pains through my midriff. I used to get this pain ages ago and now I realize it disappear some time after I started my gym routine. (about 10 years now). I think it has something to do with core strength. So now I am trying to build my own strength training course at home as well as do online yoga because there are no classes in my gym during the pandemic. .And now our province is having another wave of COVID and it is worse than last spring.
Also had rotator cuff injury with bursitis and something else-maybe arthritis. It was not diagnosed for a year so it took a long time and a lot of physiotherapy to get it right. Still ocassionally get pain in that shoulder.but now I think it is just plain old arthritis.
About the storming of the Bastille (Capitol Hill) really I think some of those people have been watching too much of the history channel. Scaling the walls, did I see grappling hooks? They obviously planned that for some good theatre. They could have just gone around the building and in the front door like the rest of the nut cases. It would be laughable if it wasn't just so sad and tragic.
In another email list I am on one or two people felt we Canadians should not waste so much time watching US news, Trump and the invasion of the Capitol. If my fellow Canadians don't think that couldn't happen here they are sadly ignorant. We are all part of the same economic system. Whenever our Prime minister gets in trouble it usually involves his high flying, wealthy, elitist friends. When Hillary Clinton used that term "basket of the deplorables" that was what turned the lights on for me. It's all about the 1 per cent and the people on the other end of that scale. Well that's not the whole of it. But we also have our white supremacists and anti-democracy , anti-black, anti-immigrants, anti-everything, mirror images of what you have in the US.
I just hope there won't be a repeat on inauguration day because-selfishly- that's my birthday.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Marya F" <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/8/2021 5:08:32 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
I know a handful of people who've had covid, but two of them are true long haulers. They had knock-'em-down symptoms for over 10 weeks each. Both are still battling parts of it, with one affected by short-term memory loss. Both were very vibrant, robust people before getting sick. Also, both are late 40s or older. But the one who is older, his teen-age daughter also got it and is also a long hauler.
This to me is kind of terrifying. On top of that, (me = cap'n obvious) we don't know what the long-term implications are.
I am both fed-up-to-here angry with dummies believing the right-wing crapola and sad for them. It's not pity I feel, but genuine disappointment for them. What makes them so susceptible to believing the hogwash? And I am fed-up-to-here furious with their pastors, leaders, and news agencies that fill them with lies. Those people I hold fully accountable.
What a fucked up week in the states. Fucked up beyond belief. I am so disheartened. So disgusted. And feel pretty much like there is nothing I can do beyond what I do, do. Ha. Doo doo. Man, that is where my brain is at. Child brain.
On the plus side, I just finished my first week of yoga. I've been away from it for many years (like 10 years) and have suffered a few injuries (including one this autumn that I am still healing from -- torn rotator cuff and shoulder bursitis). So I can't do all the yoga, but what I can do feels so good. I'm doing the free Yoga with Adriene program on YouTube. OMG. I love it so much and she is awesome. I highly, highly recommend it to everyone. I feel taller and I feel...cleaner some how? Must be all that cleansing breath.
I don't think I could eat anything called Chicken Bones. Gross!
I just finished reading/working Writing Down the Bones and that book kind of re-awoken (is that a word? again, child brain) a flame in my soul -- in how to live life in general. I journal a lot. For me, that is my process place. So, that is where all the work went into.
Finally -- I really like facebook. I really dislike the company. I really don't trust Zuckerberg, but I am in a very cozy bubble of smart, creative people. Almost everyone else has been weeded out. I guess I share that to say, you can make it a lovely place to be. So many people there bring light into my day. ESPECIALLY SPRING. Spring -- I love your FB so much.
xo all!
m.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:19 PM Glenna Hanley <ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Thanks Spring for that bit of nostalgia. I used to work at a newspaper in St. Stephen, NB and our office was just down the street from Ganong's candy making plant. My favourite day was peppermint paddy day. The whole of downtown would smell like peppermint. The air was delicious, almost erotic.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Derek Seaton" <seatons@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/8/2021 3:51:05 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
I remember eating chicken bones as a kid, but didn't realise that was what they were called. I can attest to them being uniquely delicious!
:D
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 4:07 PM Spring (Stacy) Dew <springdew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/chicken-bones-candy-ganong-st-stephen-1.4454303
These.
Are.
Fascinating.
Gonna have to get me some now.
I think it is known now that covid antibodies only continue to be produced for about two months after you get infected. After that, there are other aspects of immunity you might retain, but people are definitely and provably getting second covid infections. My friend Michelle is one of them.
These days, every time I reach for bagged greens, I remember all the E coli recalls and just don't. I get a cucumber. Or a squash. Or something. I can trust my veg washing prowess on a cucumber. Not so confident I can wash a lettuce well enough.
So, no Instacart for you, then, Scott? I really like Instacart rather a lot.
Spring
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:55 PM Kathy Johnson <twoshoes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:My phone has a setting that reminds me how much time I've spent on FB, Twitter, or Instagram. It's a godsend.
Otherwise I, like most people, will be on longer than I intended.
I asked myself how much time in a day I wanted to spend looking at those sites, and decided 30 minutes total.
That's only 10 minutes each and you know what, I don't notice myself feeling as if I have missed anything important.
A friend has given me numerous colouring books and though I don't find them all that relaxing (my neck and shoulders don't need that posture, apparently), they are great to have handy during TV commercials, which I've come to abhor.
Sorry to hear about your niece. That must be hard; nieces are dear.
xo
Kate
On 2021-01-06 9:30 am, Glenna Hanley wrote:
I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. It is a big time waster and the worst thing I do is, when I am on my way to bed and turning off my computer, I will just check in to see if there is anything big on FB. An hour later, and it's now midnight, I am still on there. A bad habit I hope to break in 2021.
However I had a niece who just died on Dec. 2. She lived in Nova Scotia and at that time we were not allowed to cross the border from New Brunswick.(and we are back in that phase again) So FB did give us an opportunity to share our grief a bit through an FB family group that my son had set up. Still, not the same as having a big wake and funeral, which is what would be normal for my family.
Speaking of colouring reminds me that I got colouring books for a gift at Christmas three or four years ago. I only used them for one winter. This might be a good time to drag them out again. Thanks for the reminder Steve.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Steve Crane" <steve.crane@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/6/2021 2:26:33 AM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
Cheryl-Lee (who calls herself Cheryl now), one of my nieces in the UK (Wales) got COVID and was very sick for a long time but that is as much as I know. Her mother Anita (also in UK but England) was the only one of Mela's four siblings she still communicated with until somewhere in early 2020 when she upset Mela by saying Mela had all the surgeries she had because she chose to and should stop complaining. In the last month or two they have started communicating again but only very superficially. It seems that if they get into any history or conversational depth they set each other off and go incommunicado again. So I just hear the odd bit about Chezz's (nickname) condition which is apparently improving slowly.
Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed on Facebook so I would get info like this first hand, but then I think of all the crap that's on there. Mela also got off Facebook when I did, but a few months ago went back on. She is being conscious of avoiding toxic groups that used to upset her. Who would think that people in art groups (colouring, etc.) would be so nasty to each other. Anyway she is now on some paint-by-numbers groups that seem to be less toxic; paint-by-numbers being her new passion and the only art she is really doing right now.
You hear the statistics relating to COVID but it's all just numbers and seems rather unreal until you see news reports like Durban bride-to-be and both parents die of Covid-19, three days apart <https://www.iol.co.za/news/durban-bride-to-be-and-both-parents-die-of-covid-19-three-days-apart-d7923c2c-1b04-45c3-82e0-2548c07fe9f9>, that really bring home just how dangerous it is. We think of people with pre-existing health conditions being at risk, but really anyone is; it's like a lottery with really bad prizes. No telling whether you'll get it, and if you do, how bad it will be.
It fascinates me how much of a convenience culture there is in the US. Reading about terrible shredded lettuce shortages just makes me shake my head; they don't even sell shredded lettuce here. Seemingly you can make your own from a head of lettuce with just a knife, but that's a terrible waste of minutes, so it needs to be bought ready to go. We get a small selection of prepared vegetables here; coleslaw for instance but I still make my own from time to time. I will admit to using a food processor to do the shredding of red cabbage and grating of carrots when I do though.
Steve Crane
about.me/stevecrane
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 06:41, Glenna Hanley <ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:And another thing, I don't think we know yet if getting COVID does provide immunity. But there is so much bad information out there on the net and social media.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Scott Ransom" <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/5/2021 8:26:17 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
My sister is convinced that she already had covid, although she's never been tested, and therefore "can't get it again", and therefore is running around like covid is no big deal. I think the only reason she even wears a mask is because "they" make her. I've tried explaining to her that she could still be giving it to people, and maybe being so la-di-da with other peoples health might not be the best of choices, but it's like talking to a kitchen table. She's got all sorts of medical theories, although her professions have tended towards "hair stylist" and "house cleaner" rather than epidemiologist, nurse or even first-aid provider. But she DOES watch super far right "news" channels like OANN and Newsmax (also so she can proudly say she doesn't "just watch Fox"), and they keep her informed yes they certainly do at least they say they do.
Scott
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:45 PM Glenna Hanley <ghanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I have anxiety all the time Marya about my brother. He has COPD and other health issues. He struggles to breathe on good days. He is home a lot but his wife runs here, there and everywhere. She seems to think he is safe as long as he is at home. She doesn't seem to realize she could take it home with her.
Our province just went back into the orange phase today. It is not the full lock down (which is the red phase) but we are supposed to stay at home as much as possible.
As for food, I am actually tired of eating chocolates and chicken bones (this is a sweet, sugary pink coating with a cinnamon filling made by a local and 100 plus year old company called Ganongs. I don't know why this candy is called chicken bones). I am ready for a bland diet of potatoes, pasta and pancakes and stuff like that.
I didn't know anyone personally who had Covid until my daughter-in-law's niece got sick. But they live in Norway so not anyone close where I live. She is 18 or 19. What is scary is now we are beginning to hear abut 40- year -olds dying from it.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Marya F" <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/5/2021 2:53:24 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
Gahhh. Tacos sound great (and/or it's heading towards lunch time).
Stay safe out there. I'm probably overly worried about this new strain. But I am worried. Mostly about my mom who just allows herself to be exposed. She thinks she's being safe, but seriously. She is still going into her office every day (she and my stepfather own the place. They go in as do support staff and construction workers.). Heavy sigh.
One of our friends is a GP at Kaiser in LA. One of their ER docs died this morning of covid.
I'm so ready for this to be over.
In the meantime, tacos!
Marya
(new year and hovering around inbox zero, so not so overwhelmed by email at this moment.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:47 AM Scott Ransom <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Well, I decided that while I could technically last many more months without going to the store, they would be months of probably nutritionally deficient filler like ramen and spaghetti. Which is fine for a while, but not really a good long-term lifestyle. And so, rather than die of malnutrition instead of covid, I decided this morning around 4:30 to head for the supermarket.
While I'm sure clouds of sticky viral mist are now common outside my door, I think what must have been freak weather conditions allowed me to slip between or around them. Of course, I may just be thinking of the familiar clouds of the old virus. The new, evolved, and much more infectious clouds are invisible without infrared goggles, and Amazon sold out of those, like, immediately. Although I bathed myself in x-rays and a light spray of sulfuric acid when I got home, we'll still have to see in five to ten days if food was worth it. It may not have been.
Taco's tonight, though. Also, they were dumping Christmas candy, so I may have overbought on waxy holiday themed chocolates as well.
Scott
