A quick post

 Tired tonight. I was on my feet more today (class and lab, and then after lab I took the time to set up the lab for tomorrow) but I am finding that I can walk/stand for longer times and more without pain. Oh, there's still PAIN - but if I sit down for a few minutes it resolves. I am hoping that means it's just weakness from basically being immobile for a month plus.

Also my thigh muscles are starting to complain from the lack of exercise. I really hope the MRI looks good and the doctor tells me it's time for PT. 

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Also tonight was Ash Wednesday - unlike the Catholic churches, we do an evening service (I remember in college my Catholic classmates walking around all day with the ashes on their foreheads.

I admit, the whole "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" thing hits harder now - after having lost so many people over the past five years, and having an injury that MIGHT lead to surgery for me (surgery scares me; I'm afraid I'll die under the anesthetic), and also just the general feeling of "nothing good ever stays" after other losses (And the pandemic, that really affected me). 

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But here's Chalcedony, at least as far as I got during the Tuesday exam this week

It LOOKS small, but there are wide front bands that get knit on at the end, and it's a sweater designed to be work open (there are no buttonholes or places for buttons). Still, I hope it fits.