Who needs Oil of Olay?

We don't. The 'we' in this instance being me and a couple of my friends from SF. Long gone are the days when I'd be hanging out on a weekend evening with Jen, Andrea, Victor, and the rest of the gang. We are all in our 40's now, and I don't think any of us looks a day older than we did we when all lived in SF over eight years ago. Sure there are kids, mortgages, and health issues in the picture now, but I think we are all aging well. We all look younger than we are, but I was amused to hear that I am not the only one that feels '40' sometimes when I get up in the mornings. And we are all worried about our parents, but for varying reasons. It was great catching up with everyone.

I have only kept a very small circle of family, friends, and co-workers updated on my ThyCa journey. Jen is one of those people, so I had a little bit of explaining to do with Andrea. It is still weird talking about it, whenever I open up about it, but at least now I am moving on with my life. So even if it is still weird, at least I am not waiting and worrying over my next treatment, and wondering if things will ever be normal again.


Other updates....
In addition to hanging out with friends, I finally got the calorie counter on my Garmin to work. None of my previous runs showed how many calories I expended during my runs. I had contacted Garmin Support (GS) last weekend to report the mapping issue (running through peoples yards and three instances during a run where my elevation increased by 200 ft!). During one of the email exchanges I had with GS this past week, I told them I was also having problems with the calorie count always being '0' for each run. I was told to master reset it twice, using two different methods. I was skeptical, but it worked - my calories were counted during my treadmill run this afternoon. The last run I did outdoors was at run club last Wednesday, so I still don't know if the mapping issue was also fixed with the resets.

Yesterday, my left knee was really bothering me, so I was afraid to do any running. In fact this past week was not a good week for my knees. Tuesday evening I went to a yoga class. I forgot the name of the pose he had us do, but it really killed my right knee. A LOT. I was surprised that I didn't have any pain, in either knee, during run club the following day. Going down (and sometimes up) the stairs at the gym was still painful this past week. And, I had random pain during exercise or just shifting my left leg around while sitting or even lying down. And, it doesn't help much that I skipped my evening PT exercises a couple of times this past week because it was late and I was too tired. Hopefully the sum of all of these things does not mean that I undid the past five weeks of PT sessions. That would totally suck!