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Weight Loss / Re: 170s Club
Last post by Andrew -
@Cate yeah it was not pleasant.
@Marsia not to much. I have pain from the surgery but I feel like my leg healed ok. if I complain about something the doctors just tell me it was a big surgery and will take a long time to heal. what happened was I tripped down the stairs and skipped a step taking a long stride. Then when I tried to stop myself from falling my ankle rolled and I came down hard breaking my leg and tearing muscle tissue. My weight was heavy which is why it broke in half. My body couldn't handle my own weight in that manner.
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Weight Loss / Re: 170s Club
Last post by Marsia -
Wow, that's rather miraculous you could recover from that and just have a numb outer part of the knee.  Does the numbness affect you very much?  I hope not!!
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Weight Loss / Re: 170s Club
Last post by Andrew -
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Oh, wow, that sounds horrible and excruciatingly painful.  A whole year of that - yikes!  I think I'll research this and order some bands.  Thanks so much!!

yeah it was mostly painful when they turned my foot around to face the right way then they pushed upwards on the heal of my foot to set it.  I think the whole hospital heard me scream because I was on no pain killers. I wasn't awake when they put the rod and screws in thank goodness.  The outer top part of my knee still has no feeling when touched. it's weird it's like having permanent nova cain on the top of my knee. none of my doctors are to worried about that.
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Weight Loss / Re: 170s Club
Last post by Marsia -
Oh, wow, that sounds horrible and excruciatingly painful.  A whole year of that - yikes!  I think I'll research this and order some bands.  Thanks so much!!
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Weight Loss / Re: 170s Club
Last post by Andrew -
@Marsia np. if you have one of those exercise bands they help with just a little resistance. Each band color represents a certain amount of resistance.  I used them when I broke my tibia and fibular bones in my leg. I broke them both in half and they put a metal rod in my leg. Besides taking almost a year to heal it took months of therapy afterwards. The bones were sticking out of my leg and my foot was twisted around backwards. It must have looked gruesome at the hospital.
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Setting goals / Re: New year's goals.
Last post by Llama -
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My goals, or things to work on, won't be SMART, but I hope they'll be smart regardless.
- Replace sweets with fruit and chips with crackers plus a protein on most days to reduce binging
- Family exercise twice a week, a proper hike once a week, and walking to work and back most days
- Weigh myself every Monday morning and take my blood pressure every Sunday night
- Focus on one thing rather than having 3 only half-engaging things running simultaneously
- Try one new social thing every month
Three days in: where are we?
- Been doing well on the sweets.
- Family exercise starts back up tomorrow morning. Skipped one walk to work due to icy sidewalks.
- Sunday and Monday haven't happened yet.
- Been more aware of doing things consciously. Not perfect, but better.
- Haven't had the presence of mind to come up with a new social thing yet. Too many practical things to do. But there's still 4 more weeks to this month and I will try.
Adding today:
- Shoulder exercises twice a week. At least two plus one stretch. I slipped on the ice this morning and milled around with my arms like a lunatic trying to regain my balance which irritated my right shoulder. Because I've been neglecting my shoulders and they like attention.
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Weight Loss / Re: 170s Club
Last post by Marsia -
Thanks so much for this Andrew!  I know I need to stretch this a lot, and I do, but probably not enough.  I am pretty tolerant of physical pain, but it is pretty painful, so I tend to not remember to do my exercises, so I think I'll set reminders for it for a while.  Thanks for sympathizing!!
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Weight Loss / Re: 170s Club
Last post by Andrew -
@Marsia my mom had a frozen shoulder from a car accident. She always says you got to keep moving it otherwise as the name suggests the frozen shoulder will freeze and be worse. Going by what she was telling me a frozen shoulder is no joke. It's painful and takes a long time to heal. So I feel for you and hope you find some relief. Is there any chance you can get some physical therapy? Im just trying to think of something that could help. I dont like knowing you are in pain.