Hi ladies! Yesterday the sun finally came out! So DH and neighbor and her now retired DH (he's only 57!) all went for a ride. It was so nice getting outside. It was quite an aggressive ride, 28 miles and 1300 ft gain in hills. The prev 2 days I did 30 min of spin....I like spinning but it's no substitute for getting outside. So I've been playing around with my new medication
Finally today I'm feeling much better with no stiff/sore neck to top of shoulder muscles. Who'd have thought stress and tension would do that?!?!?! I'm a slow learner with this new neck and how to deal with it. Funny, sometimes when I lay on my special pillow at night I would feel like the pillowcase was cutting into my neck and think why can't I get comfortable. Turns out that's my stiff neck and nothing to do with the pillow. Each night it's eased up, normally I wake up at 3 or 4 and can't get back to sleep because of the nagging pillowcase feeling like it's bunched under my neck, finally last night I'm back to normal.
Jody, I can't believe you're heading back to London! All by yourself? I didn't go with edibles, I didn't want the 'wait and see', it's been nothing like some of the stories I've heard, I went with a tincture (turtle tinctures, look them up). Then I decided on the vape pen, not sure how I feel about the vape. I do like the tinctures and then I found how to make them, which then got me telling DH that his new retirement hobby can be growing plants (we can grow 12 I think), and making tinctures as they are soooooo expensive. This one was $90 for 36 dropperfulls which amounts to 36 days for me (I take 2 half dropperful a day). That tincture has more CBD than THC. Then the oil for the vape we got where it has mostly THC and hardly any CBD. That seems to work well for sleeping. I haven't been sleeping as well since I haven't ridden my long rides outside. They both seem to relax the muscles a bit and me, but no real "high". So mostly CBD is for pain and I think mostly THC is for sleep The oil for the vape was $30 and I'm not sure how long it will last, hoping a month. DH might have to keep working to support this! hahahaha Not sure how much cheaper it'd be with a medical license but when I asked the NP at my dr office last year all she did was say try it, no offer to give me a license, maybe because it's very accessible here? There's a rails to trails in Missouri we've been eyeing (plus I have a friend that lives there). Plus we've been thinking of going back to SD, we love it there, maybe find an AirBNB or a vacation home to rent. I'm definitely not the world traveler you are!
Mary, took me a while to understand the Apple letter issue. For Jody info: I was autocorrecting to A? Now i understand more of the FB posts I read on different groups.
Ronne, it's hard when something doesn't show how hard you worked! My watch shows intensity minutes...they say 150 a week for good cardio. Anyway.....I got the same amount of credit for my 30 min spin as the same 3 hr bike ride yesterday (remember neighbor is slow....her DH said "is she always this slow?") I feel bad for her I keep encouraging her and showing her how she is progressing, that's the good thing about strava (app for runners/walkers/cyclists), basically there are segments and you can see how you improve in time over time.
Gotta run, going to be a nice day but darn if we don't have to go into Boulder for our hair cuts. Not sure I'll get any real movement into my day.
