Our predictions are for that blowing snow for about 6 hours beginning Thursday morning. I think we could get as much as 5-8 inches, but you know the weather guys......they never really know for sure. But the snow is definitely going to be followed by bitter cold for quite a few days. So whatever we get will be with us for a while.
I had planned a nice Christmas dinner out at my favorite seafood restaurant with my granddaughter and her husband for Thursday night. Fortunately we were able to change the reservation to Wednesday so we won't have snow issues. I did a bunch of errands today to get a few groceries I needed and mail a package. So Miss Toodie the Snow Dog and I will hunker down and turn on my new electric fireplace to cozy us up a little. I absolutely LOVE my new MagikFlame fireplace. It has 3-dimensional holographic flames that look pretty real and it puts out enough heat to warm up the two rooms where I spend most of my day when I'm inside the house.
I went to my second therapy session today and told Katie that I was kind of sore for a few days after the first session.....muscle soreness and nothing with the hip joint itself. We both felt that part of the problem could have been the 8 minutes she had me do on the NuStep machine to warm up the muscles before she did the massage last time. So instead of that, she used the gun for about 10 minutes to get the circulation going in my leg. Then about 20 minutes of pressure on different points around the groin and even down the top of my leg (the quad muscles are tight too). She says she can feel the tightness and also feel when a portion of a muscle releases a bit from the pressure. It's all pretty amazing to me. We talk about what I feel when she applies that pressure. It's a very odd feeling. I can feel the pressure where she pushes and at most it might be a little uncomfortable. But no real pain. But....I get a feeling that radiates from that point both up and down my body from my glut area clear down to the knee. It's not really pain, but just a feeling that something is going on. When the pressure stops, so does that radiating feeling. Katie says that's the muscles complaining that they aren't used to being loosened up and it's a very positive sign. She does believe we'll be able to get things loose again, but because it's likely that these muscles have tightened up over an extended period of time, it may take 2-3 months to fully release them. She's suggested that, in addition to the stretches I'm doing at home each day, I also use heat on the area. It's definitely a process.
I had planned a nice Christmas dinner out at my favorite seafood restaurant with my granddaughter and her husband for Thursday night. Fortunately we were able to change the reservation to Wednesday so we won't have snow issues. I did a bunch of errands today to get a few groceries I needed and mail a package. So Miss Toodie the Snow Dog and I will hunker down and turn on my new electric fireplace to cozy us up a little. I absolutely LOVE my new MagikFlame fireplace. It has 3-dimensional holographic flames that look pretty real and it puts out enough heat to warm up the two rooms where I spend most of my day when I'm inside the house.
I went to my second therapy session today and told Katie that I was kind of sore for a few days after the first session.....muscle soreness and nothing with the hip joint itself. We both felt that part of the problem could have been the 8 minutes she had me do on the NuStep machine to warm up the muscles before she did the massage last time. So instead of that, she used the gun for about 10 minutes to get the circulation going in my leg. Then about 20 minutes of pressure on different points around the groin and even down the top of my leg (the quad muscles are tight too). She says she can feel the tightness and also feel when a portion of a muscle releases a bit from the pressure. It's all pretty amazing to me. We talk about what I feel when she applies that pressure. It's a very odd feeling. I can feel the pressure where she pushes and at most it might be a little uncomfortable. But no real pain. But....I get a feeling that radiates from that point both up and down my body from my glut area clear down to the knee. It's not really pain, but just a feeling that something is going on. When the pressure stops, so does that radiating feeling. Katie says that's the muscles complaining that they aren't used to being loosened up and it's a very positive sign. She does believe we'll be able to get things loose again, but because it's likely that these muscles have tightened up over an extended period of time, it may take 2-3 months to fully release them. She's suggested that, in addition to the stretches I'm doing at home each day, I also use heat on the area. It's definitely a process.