Inspiration
I'm feeling blue these days. My hip is acting like an inflamed joint according to Marcus the Master Manipulator. I've been avoiding doing anything that hurt in the gym in an effort to reduce the inflamation. It doesn't seem to have done much good. My range of motion is expanding, and that's a good thing. My strength and stamina and pain are about the same. That's right, pain. I'd stopped using the word for a while. The memory of the real pain that I felt in the hospital and those first months at home was still fresh in my mind. But now, two-thirds of the way through my first year of living with perforations, I'm willing to concede that the sharp, stabbing sensation radiating from my mid-thigh up and down every nerve ending within synaptic distance... it's pain. I'm taking Aleve; cycling off it just makes me hurt more. Acupuncture has been wonderful in releasing some of the tightness and bunching up feeling that has de...