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Back Pain

by Chloe - 25 June 2009

I’m worried about my back pain. I’m worried that it’s going away.

I managed to keep significant back pain going throughout the ski season by giving my body quite a pounding every week. A few weeks after switching to hiking for the summer, I started to notice a difference. The back pain was gradually diminishing.

First Hike

by Chloe - 24 May 2009

It’s time for the first hike of the year. What will I think? What will I feel? I often have an intense internal dialog when I hike. It’s not that I’m insane. Right? I don’t say anything out loud. I don’t have multiple personality disorder. It’s just me talking to me. Everybody does it. Right? I’m not going to censor this.

New Shoes

by Chloe - 26 April 2009

I was a bit nervous about my first visit to an orthotist; not quite sure what to expect. As soon as I transferred from my car to the wheelchair, the anxiety vanished. Wheelchairs will do that.

BIID Anniversary

by Chloe - 31 March 2009

I’ve been reading the posts on transabled.org from a year ago. I read through last year’s posts until the end of March 2008 and found that they were unfamiliar. That means I had yet to discover transabled.org by the end of March last year. It occurred to me to look at last year’s diary to see exactly what I was doing a year ago. It’s not a diary written after the fact, just what I’m planning to do that day. Not much detail, but enough to reconstruct what was going on. It turned out that March 31st 2008 was the day my BIID went supernova.

Hardware from Head to Toe

by Chloe - 22 March 2009

I find it amusing how much body hardware I have accumulated. It literally goes from head to toe. Some of it is for BIID. Some of it is for assorted physical conditions. I’ll just start at the top and work my way down: