My husband had a bad case of "frozen shoulder" and started going to a holistic health clinic, where the chiropractor worked on him and then turned him over to a trainer. He saw a nutritionist, kept working with the trainer after the shoulder was mostly fixed, and is now a bit of a workout fiend.

For the last 40 years until a year or so ago, my husband was a heavy smoker with bad feet and horrible back problems, who was naturally skinny out of sheer self-consumption though ...

The Y had their annual Healthy Kids Day. They shut down part of the facility and bring in different vendors to introduce kids to healthy living and eating. One of my favorites, Produce Pete's was there. Bummed b/c he was out of his homemade ketchup, but he did bring the chickens. (long story..)

Mark and I were asked to give a brief fencing demo. The email I had said 1pm. I get there and the organizer says we were on at 11:30am. We waited for the Zumba! class to finish, we were introduced. ...

Thursday's class was the highlight of my week. I was nervous with regards to the strength of the knee, but anxious to get back to doing my footwork routine.
Going through the drills with the beginners, I was really paying attention to how the knee was handling it. My lunge felt good, but I wasn't making a full one at first.
I decided to sit out the game of 3:15. All the jumping involved made me nervous.

Ciaran, Billy (new advanced student. Nice dude.) and I were rotating ...

or wait... is Sabre the dark side? I don't remember. I'm going back to Epee.

I only switched to foil because I didn't have any epeeists at my club anymore (who would actually get up and fence). Now that I've been in AZ a while I've seen, that I'm not getting anywhere with foil. I mean, I've renewed my C, fenced pretty well at times, but my fencing isn't getting any better, and when I look at video of my foil, I don't look that much like a foilist. So, I'm done trying to be one. ...

It's been 35 days (but who, besides me, is counting) since I injured the knee. I haven't been able to do anything but rehab, bladework on my own, and lessons bound to a stool.

After weeks of doing the p.t. exercises just like the therapist said I should, she finally has cleared me to take this evening's fencing class.
"Don't do anything crazy tomorrow, though." By that I suppose she means no long lunges and paying attention to exactly how the knee feels.
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