Day 4: Momma said there'd be days like this...

I am at the close of Day 4.  My aches are subsiding and I'm feeling calm and relaxed right now.  Of course, the calm and relaxed part could be because I am at home and there are no customers or telephone calls with silly questions.  You got it, folks.  It was another Moody Blues kind of day.  Not that I was particularly blue, just moody.

When I got up this morning, I fixed my no fruit green smoothie.  I tried my best to chug it like a beer, but it just wasn't the same.  After, I just could not face the oatmeal, so I didn't fix any.  I took my soup and any time the water wasn't giving me that "full" feeling, I had a couple of spoonfuls of soup and that helped.  Then of course, the baked potato for dinner.

Earlier in the day, my knees were still a bit tender, but all the other joints seemed to be doing OK.  I was thinking, as I walked from the parking lot to the building I work in, "This is feeling better.  Knees aren't protesting so loud this morning.  Woo hoo!"  A little later, I got up to help a customer and pain shot up through my right knee and I had to use some support to walk.

Let me just give you the back story on my right knee.  I had originally injured it playing LVJA hand ball.  Swinging with all my might to hit that little red ball, my feet came out from under me and I came down on my right knee.  Oh.  Did I mention that the gym floor was concrete?  No?  Well it was.  And it hurt.  I was black, blue, yellow, purple, and green from the top of my knee down to my ankle for about a month.  That did not dampen my Tom-boy attitude at all.  I loved sports.  Basketball, baseball, and volley ball were the top three.  I did a lot of running and being a Tom-boy, wasn't afraid to dive for the shot or the catch.  The problem was that when I landed, I almost always landed on my right knee.  I ended up with a hemotoma under the skin.  I've had a lump there ever since.

Anywho, during the morning hours, every time I stood up it felt as though my knee were split in two.  This afternoon, however, is a different story.  I am having only faint twinges in either knee.  Yippee!!!  That makes me very, very happy.

Tomorrow, I start on Phase 2 (Day 5).  For the next three days, I get nothing but green smoothies.  Kind of like the ones I had but with one very notable difference.  FRUIT!!!  Tomorrow's smoothies will incorporate mixed frozen berries!!!  I'm excited, can you tell???

Well, I'm gonna pack it in for tonight.  Be back tomorrow and I'll let you know how the smoothies are working for me.

Four days down only 22 more to go!!!

Tally ho!
Nevada Smith