Don’t be dumb, that’s me talking to me. You can do whatever you want, but I, personally, I’m trying like crazy to not be dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far it’s not working out super great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s all about my dumb knee and how I keep doing things that make it feel really, really bad. Last week I tried doing some squats which felt fine but then afterwards it was OOWWWWWWWW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday I decided that I could drive to the grocery store – I hadn’t been driving since I injured myself. The driving seemed OK but then the pain started as I walked all around the store and by the time I got home it was back to OWWWWW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ok, so don’t walk around a big store and don’t do squats. But then on Wednesday I added one little yoga move to my core training. It’s a “bird dog,” also called “balancing table pose,” with one leg and the opposite knee out and I just looked it up and it’s called Dandayamana Bharmanasana in Sanskrit. With a name like that, it’s no wonder I’ve never heard a yoga teacher utter it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, I balanced on the good knee, just fine, and then on the bad knee and I thought “this is great!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It always takes a bit of time for the pain to start coursing through my knee, which of course it did when I finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t walk around a big store. No squats, no balancing table pose, and you probably shouldn’t drive, either. I drove just a little today and it didn’t end up well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amy suggested that I make a list of things that make my knee hurt so I’ll remember not to do them but I decided that it will be simpler to just not be dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t. Be. Dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday we went to Sam’s Club and I said I’d be fine walking, I’d go slowly, but Amy was very insistent that I use one of those motorized shopping carts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naturally, she had to take a video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n