3.26.14 #familyfirst

Instead of “Walking Wednesday” #22, I went to a meeting with my niece for her confirmation.  She asked me to be her sponsor to which I replied “Of course!”  It was a meeting for confirmation candidates (my niece) and their sponsors (me).  It was at my church (we go to the SAME church).

I was lamenting NOT going to Barwis earlier in the day; but, given how I’ve been feeling since the “infamous stretch” Phil gave me on Monday, I didn’t think that I would put up a good showing.  I texted Phil on Tuesday that it felt like I have been shot on the outside of my left thigh (I have NEVER been shot but I am reading the 3rd Divergent book so I was thinking about people being shot and I imagine hurts this badly).  Last night, I texted that the gunshot is gone but it has been replaced with a Charley horse in each leg.  So I guess I needed the time off from working but, I thought I might lose momentum from my 35 yard drive.

I’ve really been thinking since Tuesday morning about how much my legs have been hurting.  My legs have NEVER hurt like this before Barwis.  But, before Barwis, I couldn’t feel my legs.  AT ALL.  So this is progress.  I’ll take it.    That joke I’ve heard about Christmas morning and the little kid who finds big piles of horse poop under the tree comes to mind.

I found it online if you haven’t heard it:

There is a famous joke about a child who wakes up on Christmas morning and is surprised to find a heap of horse manure under the tree instead of a collection of presents. Yet, the child is not discouraged because he has an extraordinarily optimistic outlook on life. His parents discover him enthusiastically shoveling the manure as he exclaims, “With all this manure, there must be a pony somewhere!”

I think about how all of this pain HAS to be muscles activating and finding that new pathway to my spine to tell my brain how they are moving!  So, that means that something is cooking in my legs which means that walking can’t be that far off.  Score!!!

I was tired and still sore from Monday after work yesterday but now I am SO happy that I went to this meeting!  It proved to be really good and I very much enjoyed seeing my niece!  I tweeted this pic last night, but I REALLY need to get my eyebrows waxed!