Posted by alexandra_k on September 7, 2013, at 21:32:59
In reply to Re: The trouble with gyms..., posted by Poet on September 7, 2013, at 11:21:56
I used to have trouble with swimming too, but then I got a light wetsuit with shortish arms and legs. Fine for the ocean, okay for cold pools. Got a few looks at indoor heated pools, but too bad. Not sure where / how that managed to disappear over the years...
I hardly swim now, but have compression gear that I guess I'd swim in... I love the compression gear... It makes me feel like a cat... Black and sleek... And combat fit, too. I guess because the high necked / long sleeved top looks a lot like the tops the MMA fighters wear... I think of the chick off the matrix jumping off walls and stuff :-) Even if I am a bit podgier, I can dream ahaha.
> I haven't had a pap smear or mammogram in years (which I know is dumb as there's good reason to have them.)
Yeah, I know it is dumb not to have them, too. But... I don't think I could bear it.
I was alright seeing the physio for my feet... That was okay... I didn't like but was able to tolerate the nurses bathing me when I hurt my feet... Because there wasn't any other choice, I guess... Maybe because I had gradual exposure to what was going on, too, with gradually coming out of the drug induced haze. I remember going nuts at the surgeon though. Throwing something at him, even. He waked in while I was being bathed and didn't apologize and get out, he just kinda stood there. The nurses thought it was hilarious... Not sure if it was because he ususally stood around watching but I wasn't conscious or if it was more that they would have loved to have thrown something at him occasionally, too.
I think the physio thing was different from a massage thing because the former is about health whereas the latter is about... That was why I thought I would be okay training to be a physio but I'd never in a million years go see or train to be a massage therapist. I do think that I'll be okay with the medicine thing... Taking people's blood pressure... Listening to peoples chest etc... Because it will be professional. Medical. But I guess I have some concerns after physio... Will I really be able to handle it when we are doing all our learning by practicing on each other... What will make it different from physio? From the personal training course when I bailed because I couldn't tolerate doing the skin folds?
I don't know.
I guess that is a good reason to get into psychiatry ahaha. But still... You have to do all the basic sh*t first...
I tell myself it will be okay because the people will be different. Will they? We will see, I guess. We will see...
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