Sunday

I’ve been having sort of an allergic reaction to certain fruits, to read more details click on my previous post here. This sometimes includes my beloved…bananas 🙁

Gurl, yes… my smoothie that I have perfected over the years that makes me happy every day. Maybe I was putting in too many bananas and/or my body is yelling out for variety for my first meal of every single day.

I branched out today and bought a huge bag of frozen mixed fruit, mangos, strawberries, blueberries.

It’s like I forgot that you can make smoothies without bananas 🤪 Spoiler alert: IT WAS AMAZING. I was starting to wonder if I was having too many bananas per day, it was around 3-5 sometimes 6 if I made a banana nice cream that day. It turns out you can get too much potassium from eating too many nanners but it takes 10-12 per day to OD on the potassium.

Pickleball Back and Hip Pain

My lower back on the left and left hip had been doing sort of okay this week. But then I played pickleball today. It had been about a month since I played, and before that possibly another month. It was really fun and even though the wind was crazy, we had fun, and I kind of like the crazy wind when playing because it makes it even more silly. The pain is really sore after playing. Lower back, hip, and down the side of my left leg and in the front of my left leg. I just did a lower back and hip yoga session so I’m sure that’ll help somewhat. I am doing yoga more regularly now as I believe it is key to keeping up my mobility as I age. Aka, use it or lose it!

The Feeling After Playing Pickleball for Hours

Since I hadn’t been playing as frequently as I did a little over a year ago, I forgot the feeling I get after intense workout/playing/basically running and jumping around for hours. I felt it in my lungs. Like a type of fatigue but in a good way. Perhaps this is why such activities are called Recreation 😉

Pickleball Next Day Pain

Monday

I woke up this morning after having some really good sleep. Another benefit of running around and spending hours out in the sunshine. I took a moment to tune in to the pain and it was a different pain. Definitely better than it was yesterday, still painful, but in a different way. The pain of moving muscles in ways they’re not used to but in a way that will restore and heal ::fingers crossed::

Geneticist Update

I got a call from further genetic testing that I had done and they said they found a “variant of uncertainty”. They said it isn’t either good or bad but we have to discuss it clinically at an appointment that is in about 3 weeks.

Oops I Cried on the Phone with a Client

Wednesday

Well I just cried on the phone with a client tonight. It was a really busy day and it wasn’t solidly scheduled in advance so I was not prepared. I had a little time in the morning to be in my own world and not have to rush out to work or anything like I did (very last minute) the other days this week. Oh hey I got 12,000 steps today and I didn’t even “exercise”.

Basically, work was crazy busy and I wasn’t properly prepared. I sort of knew it was going to be busy but it wasn’t confirmed. I ended up barely eating, only having a smoothie until 6:30 pm and running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

Luna Had Fun

A lot of the day I was lucky enough to include Luna which always makes the day 2000% better. One client has two dogs and one of the dogs is afraid of humans so he prefers me to have Luna there. He’s a big scary looking boy who is really a sweety who had a hard life. Also, the chiropractor and massage therapist I’ve been going to allows well behaved dogs. She loves the attention and when I’m on the massage table laying face down she sticks her nose in the face hole and tries kissing me lol!! It’s so goofy and cracks me up.

Luna as a Therapy Dog

I have been planning on getting her trained to be a therapy dog so we can volunteer at hospitals and retirement homes. Multiple different times strangers told me that she would make an excellent therapy dog and I agree! Upon searching online I only saw information stating that it’s $1,000 at the very least to get the required training. This has made me put off doing it but I still fully planned on doing it. BUT I contacted Association of Therapy Dogs (ADT) they explained that despite what Google tells you, you don’t need specific training. They do need to pass a test and observation period from a trainer in order to be approved.

Luna is a perfect ANGE but I need to train her to not jump up when she gets excited. Plus some other things I can’t think of at the moment. Obviously if she’s going to be visiting sick or injured people we can’t have her even think about jumping on someone. She doesn’t jump on people but she’ll jump up at them. Ya know…dog stuff. Basically, I am very happy to know that I can train her myself and the Therapy Dog process is easier than I expected.

Back to the Crying…

It was just a busy day, the type of day that is non-stop and I felt stressed and shaky all day. This person called to get an update on how the day went and she said, “hey, are you ok? You sound weird.” I began explaining yes I am okay it was just a really busy stressful day, like go go go, nonstop for 12 hours straight and I didn’t have time to eat. Her pointing out that I didn’t sound right was just what I needed for the floodgates to open. It wasn’t all because of work stuff. But, not knowing in advance when I’m going to be working makes my days stressful as heck. Now that I’ve been thinking about it, I did know they needed some help along with pet care. I didn’t get the specifics of the scheduling until this morning, and then I realized I had an appointment, plus another job that went later than planned. I suddenly felt like I was in a racecar thinking oh shit… buckle up, bitch!

She was really nice to listen and truly cared that I was upset. I’m glad I have good people in my life! Being my own boss is cool but I am still learning to establish healthy boundaries. Also when they’re a particularly high paying client it makes it harder for me to say no or schedule for another time. And I am usually okay with some last minute scheduling but this week it felt extra stressful I suppose. Okay it is time to attempt some relaxation. Hello crunchy salty carbs 😋