A couple of updates

Or, Of hips and men. Of course, I'm no Steinbeck.

Men: M, I fear, is out of the picture. After leaving a message the day following our date saying how much he enjoyed my company, I did not hear from him again until a week later. If you remember, I tried to communicate that he needs to clean his teeth. That, apparently, was not the biggest issue. He called and told me that I had said something to him on our date that really bothered him. Of course, whatever the words that came out of my mouth, I so did not mean what he thought I meant. I apologized for not being clear, and explained. But by then it was too late. He had been sitting on it for a week, no doubt making it a big deal in his head, and he was all, this is weird, I don't know that I want to go out with you again. I said ok, far be it from me to convince you otherwise. He said he would sit with it and see.

I haven't heard from him, so no doubt there has been further thinking and weirding himself out by now. I think I might have survived the teeth cleaning request, or the weird thing I apparently said on Saturday, but not both. I would not be surprised if at this point he thinks I'm neurotic and high maintenance and not worth the effort.

Of course, I am neurotic and high maintenance, but as anyone who knows me will tell you, totally worth the effort. Too bad, I liked him, but I'm likely to say more things that will be misinterpreted or miscommunicated, so if whatever I was putting out weirded him out, I don't think there's much room for anything. Onwards.

Hip: recovering still, the pain and stiffness diminishes with time and exercise and PT. After I hiked for two hours last weekend I had to take some Advil, but only once. I'm still spinning, which is as awful and you might imagine, but it's a great workout. My physio told me to start doing leg presses, and skip rope: he says I need to harden my body for running. Hah. Little does he know that my body, no matter what kind or amount of exercise, does not get hard. Whatevs. Anyway, I will start on the treadmill and do some weight training and rope jumping before I set off. That's right, it's been 3 1/2 months since my surgery.

However, even once I start running again, I will not limit myself to running. I will continue to cross train. Besides, I don't even know how my hip will take running, it might not. If it hurts, then I just won't do it. Anyway, we'll see.

Oh, and yesterday I had some ultrasound therapy to loosen up some of the scar tissue around the portals (you know, the holes in my leg). Oddly, I hated it. It was 10 minutes of rubbing a small ultrasound thingy on the same spot. I get totally claustrophobic with repetitive touching. I did mention I'm neurotic, right?