I wanna take you to China, I wanna kiss you in Rome

[venta]

In case anyone's curious, I've still got bad knees. I just stopped writing about them because I was boring even myself ;)

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[venta]

I don't regret the skiing trip. I've had fun skiing without mishap, in the past, and I could have done the exact same injury slipping down stairs (a friend of mine did, in fact).

Would I ski again is rather harder. My initial thought was that yes, I would, but now I'm not so sure. Certainly I wouldn't ski if it were against medical advice for me. If I'm deemed fit, I was already a pretty scaredy skiier, and I find it hard to believe that that won't be worse on any future occasion.

On the one hand skiing seems a really stupid thing to do, as I absolutely don't want to go through all this again. On the other hand, it was one unlucky fall and that could have happened at any time, doing anything...

So in short, I don't know.

[shermarama]

I have nothing to add, but this is pretty much exactly how I feel about balancey-slidey sports too, and it's nice to hear I'm not the only one.

[erming]

That reminds me - how is Pintwatch?

(or has someone run off with Pintwatch's pints?)

[venta]

Pintwatch is going well thanks - tweeted as recently as a couple of weekends ago. On the whole, people were very nice and brought Pintwatch pints while it wasn't able to get to the bar.

[lathany]

But the grind of 45 minutes of exercises morning and night is really quite surprisingly draining. Come home from work, eat tea, do physio, go to bed. Get up and hurrah! More physio. I have been trying to keep the whinging to a minimum (not least because there is no let-up in the physio schedule for the forseeable) but bloody hell am I fed up with it.

:-(

I'm not remotely surprised.

My physio's advice this morning was that I shouldn't think about having the surgery for at least another month, as my knees have only just recovered to the point of being able to do "serious strengthening".

As opposed to half-hearted strengthening?!

[venta]

Some of the exercises she's given me definitely constitute comedy strengthening.

I was almost beaten this evening trying to figure out how to give myself a strong enough anchor point for the new exercise. She'd suggested using a chair with someone sitting on it but ChrisC is out. Eventually managed using a piano stool and a case of wine...

[erming]

Careful of those kind of exercises. They can rapidly lead to not doing the exercises and an empty case of wine (and possibly new unexplained injuries)....

[venta]

On the contrary... If I drink any wine, the case will no longer be heavy enough to keep the piano stool in place!

[ceb]

I'm glad to hear you're still gradually improving, even if it is tedious...

[venta]

Thanks!

[venta]

It's down from 90 minutes morning and evening! Dunno if my physio ever pauses to add up how much all those "and do three sets of ten" come to!

[venta]

Oh, turns out I exaggerated. With the new exercise regime (as defined yesterday) I just rattled through in 31:35 :)