You're born, you die, and in between there's maintenance.
— Tom Robbins
The being born thing kind of happened to me, and the die thing is going to happen to me as well, so ostensibly, I'm probably in charge of the maintenance thing. I mean, one of the three isn't too much to ask of someone, right?
Clearly, I'm not real good at the maintenance thing. I watch my weight do weird things, I've been known at times to develop odd sleeping and eating habits, and I'll put my body through athletic feats it's not at all interested in. And after that, I get on my bike and ride 10 miles.
Dumbass.
So I've been eating better and trying to get on a regular sleep schedule (no TV's helping that, as it happens – not only am I not tempted to stay up and watch another History Channel special, I haven't been laying on the couch all day).
And I'm asking the good people down at to help me out with the stupid crap I do athletically.
When I wrote about my first visit, I mentioned that Melissa Heavener had found something in my hips I couldn't feel, and as I drove downtown Saturday morning for an hour-long session, I found it: my left hip was against the seat back, but my right hip wasn't anywhere close.
Melissa did a lot of work on my hips and lower back, and I feel like I'm learning to move again.
In general, actually, I'm learning a lot about my body. Where things are, where things were, where things are returning (hopefully).
And I'm learning something about massage therapy, which as a field is something new to me (it's relatively new as a specialty in general, actually). It's really an athletic challenge, and Melissa told me that most therapists can handle only 20-25 hours of massage work a week. Which, by the way, is a lot. Imagine if you spent three hours a day, every day, at the gym, not including your stretching, warm-ups, cool-downs, and refueling/rehydration breaks.
You'd be on the low end of that scale.
That's just crazy talk.
Anyway, I'm paying a lot more attention to my posture. And I may restructure my workstation at the office (although I've put it in a fairly comfortable setup, it turns out).