I should be thanking my legs

For hurting me, that is - according to Dr. Hoo. It certainly is an unfailing warning system for when I'm pushing myself too hard. It's actually pretty remarkable how quickly it gives me "constructive feedback" (in the form of various pinchings, pangings and wobbles) when I start thinking I can go rushing about all willy-nilly. How soon I forget my crutching and caning pace! But I'm working on it, for sure. Because I have to.

Monday the pool was inexplicably closed for Veterans Day? And yesterday I couldn't make it because of meetings. By the time I got to the Rushfords at 6, I was almost wishing I had the cane with me. Almost. :)

Though I am loathe to even put words to it, I have to admit (to myself, mostly) that my right leg has been bothering me. More than once last week when I was taking off my pants (which I should probably be doing sitting down, but don't always) I had a weird poppy pinch right in the front of my right hip joint. Scared the crap out of me. Dr. Kim claims that if it hasn't starting bothering me yet it won't, even when bearing the brunt of my weight for 3 months after surgery in June, but that seems physically impossible. We shall see...

I'm also in the midst of the Great Winter Parking Finagle with the City of Montpelier. Because I don't have parking at my place, and can't park on the street overnight from tomorrow through March because of our RIDICULOUS automatic winter parking ban, I normally park in a lot behind City Hall. That means, however, parking on the street when I get home from school (to avoid paying at a meter), then going out again in the evening to move my car to the lot and trudging out in the morning to move it again and/or head to school. While it's not a particularly long walk, it's a walk I'd prefer to avoid once the sidewalks transform into a snowy icy deathtrap. Thankfully, because I live in sweet little Montpelier, the Mayor herself has given me a load of leads to try to track down a parking alternative. I'm hoping for the one that puts me on the lower level of the parking garage - can you imagine the joy of not having to dig your car out after a snowstorm?! I sure can't! Otherwise, I'll be investing pretty quickly in hiking poles and some cleats!