My Head Says Yes, But...

Oh readers... I was doing so well. SO well, I tell you! But I just haven't been able to get my butt out of bed to hit the rec at 6AM this week. I blame it on my allergies. Yesterday, I put up a facebook status about how my allergies have been running me ragged, to the point where I took a nap on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, AND yesterday... and I never take naps. Luckily for me, my head is finally feeling less clogged and I don't feel so lethargic but sheesh... pollen controls my life, I guess. That being said, I like going to the gym in the morning. But I really need to work on my bedtime. In my previously single life, I used to go to bed at 10PM, read for 30-45 minutes and then turn off the light in order to wake up at a normal time to hit the gym. Now, in my couple life, I stay up with Roo (the fiance) until 11 or 11:30 and then snuggle in until 6:45. This needs to change. And maybe August is the month to do it.

I've also been presented with another challenge:



This is my friend, the wrist/thumb immobilizer. I've been having pain through the base of my thumb into my wrist in my right hand since early to mid May, and after a slipshot diagnosis by my very pregnant PCP (seriously, if you're 40 weeks pregnant, maybe you shouldn't be working), I insisted in going to see a wrist specialist. I knew that it couldn't be a ganglion cyst causing that pain (again, back to the pregnant PCP feeling up my lumpy wrist... PCP: I can move your cyst! Kiki: Really? Because I can't! Gimmee a referral!). And in fact, it wasn't. It's tenosynovitis, which is basically the inflammation of the tendon sheaths in my wrist. Lovely. The wrist specialist opted to give me a cortisone shot and give it a few months to see if that helps. If not, I have to get a minor minor surgery to place an incision on the sheath to give it some breathing room.

The specialist gave me these instructions: Use my wrist splint at bedtime and to use my head. Crap. That means no golf or tennis for a while to give my wrist a break. That also means that pushups are out as an option, and when I do some (not so heavy) strength workouts, I'll probably have to wear that lovely above. But that's not going to stop me. My 30s are going to be SO much healthier than my 20s, even though my body is slowly falling apart :)