I think I was a little overoptimistic about Wednesday afternoon’s booster shot. Yesterday, my arm was quite sore at the injection site all day, with a hot, raised, discolored welt. Not really a problem unless I touched it, or tried to sleep on my left side, but annoying. More of an issue, I was just […]
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Got my Moderna vaccine booster today (second booster, as I am 50 years old, and it’s now recommended for those 50 years and older who got their first booster more than four months previously, along with those who are immunocompromised). Yes, I feel a little old now. I scheduled it easily at a Walgreens website
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cn: exercise, body shape … … … … I tried an early morning workout today, 6:30 a.m., and although I slept a little badly in anticipation of having to get up at 6 (actually woke up at 2, at 5, etc.), I gotta say, it feels incredibly virtuous to be lifting weights this early in
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Feeling pleased with myself that I actually got myself to swimming on time today for a change, so that I could do a full 20 minutes. (I woke up at 5:30, which definitely helped with making at 8:25 a.m. swim time.) My goal right now is to build up my cardio capacity, which is very
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Questions for swimmers below, but first, note to self: Even if you arrive at the pool literally 7 minutes before the end of the session, you can get three laps in, and three laps are better than nothing. You will be glad you did them. Also, sessions end at 8:45, not at 9. Remember that
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Quick fitness / swim update: So a little under 6 weeks ago, I started training with Liz Fairweather. She comes to my house and we work out in the basement. I had already started trying to get back in the habit of regular cardio, and was doing a minimum of 20 minutes (usually more like
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cw: exercise. So, I’ve hopped back on the exercise wagon, after a few months of not managing it consistently. Honestly, it was pretty rocky during the whole pandemic — initially, I think I was fairly depressed, and my activity levels took a sharp nosedive during lockdown. While that improved for a while last summer, I
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So, I’ve stopped taking the Lexapro, and I don’t think I’m going to be trying another anxiety medication anytime soon. I’m going to walk y’all through my experience and reasoning, in case it’s helpful, but I want to preface this by saying I don’t actually have a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder (I *do* have
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I’ve caught some winter bug that isn’t COVID, and I find myself weirdly irritated by it. Like — after EVERYTHING we’ve gone through, and all the precautions we’ve been taking, with the masking, avoiding people, compulsive handwashing, etc., how dare OTHER viruses still get me sick. GAH. I’ll be fine, just a couple days of
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Hm. I just got a call from my oncologist’s office saying I’d missed a medical appointment, which startled me, because it wasn’t in my calendar, but I think I must have just forgotten to put it in, which means, yup, I forgot to put in the mammogram too, so I missed that, so I’ve now
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