Spidra -- I had a friend with a serious RSI ( as in she was told not to use her arms for 6 months or she might lose all use of them ). She was supposed to walk a lot ( no knee problems ) to increase her circulation. While she was walking , she was told to lift her arms over her head every so often. That was to keep the blood from pooling in her fingers and improve her circulation.

Huh. Well, the lifting above my head isn't so great in my case because the main kind of RSI I've got is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. I start to lose circulation to my arms when I even have my arm partially raised. OTOH, I need to stretch that stuff sometime or I'll lose mobility.

I definitely want to keep cardiovascular exercise up. It's just that the knee has been complicating it all. I have some sort of popliteal cyst in it. I've done some swimming since coming here and some short bike rides. But I look forward to getting the all clear on the knee so I can get back to regular and daily cardiovascular exercise.

I'm trying to get settled enough here that I can make myself do daily PT as well.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Nora!

yes, that wouldn't work for you . Does passive stretching help, Spidra? When DH had some shoulder stuff going on and they had him hang his arm off the side of the bed. Just curious - don't feel you have to answer.

Yep, that's one of the PT things that is recommended for me. Doing it with a foam roller or with a bench.

Continued ~ma for bonny! And congrats to Drew on the upswing and continued ~ma to PixDesigns.

Serial, sorry.

Dear guy who sent me a wink on a popular personals site,

You seem reasonably intelligent yet you clearly didn't read my profile completely before sending me the wink. YOU contacted me. Being cautious, I responded only with something about the intellectual pursuits you mentioned in your wink message. When you asked if I was interested in meeting (cutting to the chase because apparently any actual exchange of epistles is something you see as a waste of your time), I said approximately when I'd have time for meeting but suggested that after reading YOUR profile, I didn't fit what you professed to be looking for. You then send me two separate messages. One saying that *maybe* you can handle my size and asking me my dress size and another one saying you can't handle my coloring and good luck to me. Presumably my coloring is exactly the same as it ever was in the photos you looked at on my profile.

I would recommend working on other sorts of intelligence than the type you say you possess. If you don't want to "waste" time communicating in written form, you might also want to save your time by not contacting people who are candid on their profile about possessing traits you say on *your* profile that you find unattractive.

Now I feel a bit shitty about myself and if you'd spent one extra minute of energy, that could have been avoided.

Signed,

Woman who should know better but keeps giving the benefit of the doubt

Ew, Spidra. And don't feel even a bit shitty about yourself - that was 100% on him, and you dodged a bullet getting shed of him in an hour or so without the agony of an in-person meeting. However unpleasant the wink and the follow-ups were, an actual meeting would have been exponentially worse.

what a jackass, Spidra. ugh. see...stories like those convince me even more that dating sites just aren't my beautiful cake.

In this world of more and more people being more and more connected you would think be would be more careful. I guess not. Sorry, Spidra. But it has nothing to do with you