Ooh, very cool, dcp! Friend to birds

Somebody just said they missed me from a commitee I haven't been on in honest-to-god a year and a half. Kind of the compliment that's not, that one. (But I don't really deserve one there. It doesn't fit my schedule AND I'm not good at it. But in a pinch I write things or break ties...maybe that's leaving a little *too* graciously. She meant it nicely and she's pretty on top of things,generally, but there goes "Wow< I hope I'm like that when I'm her age."

The steroid shot in my hip joint is definitely helping, but I also learned today that I can do 15 minutes on the stationary bike with zero pain (yay!), but I cannot walk into the grocery store, walk all the way to the dairy section in the back, with a stop in the frozen aisle, and walk back out without pain. So that's interesting data to have. Biking = fine; walking longer than from the living room to the bedroom = still owie. What the hell, hip?

Bodies are such bullshit. But steroids are pretty cool.

Because on the bike you don’t have that impact of foot to ground? That’s why ellipticals are supposed to be easier on your joints than treadmills, right? Bummer that grocery shopping hurts, whatever the reason.

Because on the bike you don’t have that impact of foot to ground?

That makes perfect sense! So now I shake my tiny fist at gravity.

The awesome ortho PA told me (and later I checked, and studies back this up) that every 1 pound of body weight lost reduces about 4-6 pounds of pressure on the hips. That's wild, but again, it's gravity, man.

That makes perfect sense!

It does but it's still wild what hurts and what doesn't. For me, biking has been bad since I hit a two-digit age.

Yeah I would assume biking is more range of motion and walking involves more actual weight bearing? Sorry it still hurts though hopefully in another day or two the steroids will kick in even more??

I went to a Heated Rivalry dance party tonight. They played songs and showed videos. It was not QUITE as much straight up edits from TikTok that I’d hoped (there were big stretches of the original music videos to songs, then the like 30 second edit) but still lots of fun. Past my bedtime now and I’m cursing myself for forgetting earplugs.

More power to you. I've seen so many video clips with a sped up version of that t.A.T.u. song in the last month that I've grown to hate it. Tinnitus from it would be the last straw.

They did play that song once but it was a lot of mixing fanvids with actual music videos (since most of the fanvids on TikTok are short). Like”daddy’s home” to clips of Francois Arnaud.

Ah, that sounds much more enjoyable than I was imagining.