So, in
the past, before I gained all the weight, people would tell me I looked like
Jodie Foster. Well, for the past few
years no one has told me this. Over the
last week or so, I’ve had about 3 people tell me that I look like Jodie
Foster. YAY! Also, I’ve had someone refer to me as one of
the “beautiful people.” WOW!
On Wednesday
and Thursday, I worked from 2pm until the following morning at 6am. Then, I still had to work my regular 2-10pm
shift on Friday. So I only got about 5½ hours
of sleep both Thursday and Friday mornings.
So, obviously, I didn’t have the time to work out those two days. Well, while I was working both nights, in the
middle of the night, I started itching to go for a run. Part of that was that I knew it would revive
me and keep me awake better than coffee and sugary foods. The other part was that I was at a desk
position for 16 hours straight both days.
I was antsy to say the least. I wanted
to get up and stretch my legs in the best possible way, by going for a
run. As a result of needing to sleep Friday
morning I missed my usual Friday morning run.
I had originally planned to get that 3rd run for the week in
on Wednesday, but (as I mentioned here I rolled my ankle on Tuesday morning’s run)
that got changed to pedaling the stationary bike instead. This morning, I was big time itching for my
run. And it was completely obvious in
how I ran. Even though my pace felt the
same as usual, it was much faster than usual.
Usually I run comfortably around a 10:30 to an 11:00 minute mile. Today, however, I was running between 9:20
and 10:30. The 10:30 was primarily on
the 4th mile. Holy moly! It felt great, though. Really great.
I was soooo tempted to up my mileage, but I refrained because I really
want to do that 8.5 miles tomorrow and I want to run it well and
comfortably. I’m really excited to run
that tomorrow.
Next week
I’m mostly back to my regularly scheduled routine. I’m picking up another shift of overtime at
work on Wednesday night on the overnight shift, so Thursday I’ll have that 6am
to 2pm turn-around, so no workout Thursday morning. Thursday morning would have been swimming as
many laps as I could manage (at least 3) and since I’m getting tattooed
tomorrow, I can’t go in a pool for 2 weeks, until it’s healed anyway, so that
works out.
I slept
great last night. It was so very nice to
get to sleep more than 5½ hours. I ended
up having to take one of my prescription sleeping pills (yay! insomnia!), but it still took me well over
half an hour to get to sleep. Then I woke
up after about 6½ hours to go to the bathroom.
I was able to sort of sleep until my alarm went off about 45 minutes
after that. I had my first chiropractic adjustment
in about 3 years this morning. It went
well. This doctor (Dr. Gerard) uses a
different method to realign the spine than the last one I went to…the one that
hurt me. He also uses a different kind
of table. His tables that the “shock”
out of the adjustment, so there’s no audible pop when he adjusts you. But, let me tell you, just because there’s no
pop doesn’t mean he’s doing nothing. I feel
about 90+% better than I felt when I walked into his office this morning. My next appointment with him is Wednesday morning. It kind of sucks because he’s not in network
with my insurance. However, his
adjustment fee ($45) is only $5 more than my co-pay. But, I had to pay $100 for the x-rays and
they said that once they ran my insurance, there was a chance they would just
write me a check for what I had to pay for them, but since they’re out of
network, that probably won’t happen. Oh well. But, anyway, I have to check how much I still
have available in my FSA as I may have to limit my visits to Dr. Gerard because
I can’t afford to fork out $45 out of my pocket to pay for visits. I understand that chiropractic care is a repetitious
kind of care that you have to keep doing over and over again for the treatment
to actually be effective, but if I can’t afford it, I can’t do it. Plain and simple.
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