I was tired when I got to Barwis and my legs felt pretty stiff. Nick warmed my legs up for a LONG time because it took a while for me them to loosen because they were resisting so badly. Once he got my legs semi-normal feeling, he helped me onto the table. He grabbed a wedge for me to lay on and then grabbed my right leg. He bent it and told me that today he was going to take it easy. Nothing crazy.
He slowly stretched my leg outward until I felt the stretch but it didn’t hurt. He held it there a while and rocked it a bit further outward. I clearly saw my legs being two new sticks of clay and he slowly, artistically even, melded them into something manageable to work with. He did the stretches on both legs and changed the position of my legs so I felt the stretch in both of my groins and hips.
I appreciated that we were doing, “nothing crazy” because I needed the escape from the tight feeling in my legs. I remembered Brock saying that, “sometimes you just NEED a stretch.” I also remembered feeling to disappointed, not productive, and like a failure in NOT having a “Walking Wednesday” but now I understood the immense importance of the stretching I would do with Phil, Michael, Susan, and now Nick. It’s not a disappointment, unproductive, nor a failure; rather, I understood the importance of doing, “Nothing crazy” in that moment because I needed the break from the painful tightness in my legs that I feel ALL THE TIME now at least for a little while and I got that right now while doing, “Nothing crazy.”