 Synovial cyst from overuse |  Neapolitan hands: Chocolate (tan), strawberry (burned), vanilla (pale) |
- Left hip bursitis is worse. It’s stiff and I can barely put weight on my left leg when I first get out of my kayak at the end of each day. So annoying. Ibuprofen doesn’t seem to do anything.
- My fists are still super weak, and now both middle fingers stay clenched and then pop up after the other fingers have opened up (like they’re rusty and stuck). My hands, elbows, ankles, hip ache terribly, especially in the morning. It’s generally a tingling ache instead of a throbbing ache now. I think that’s better?
- Right forearm skin on thumb side has lost feeling (nerve damage from compression/extension of elbow during portages?)
- Synovial cyst on the base phalange of my right 3rd finger from overuse of the joint.
- Sun-burned hands (I lost my paddling gloves so now my burn/tan goes farther down my hands (at least my rash guard shirt has thumb-holes to keep it protecting my wrist and the back of some of my hands!)
- Sun poisoning (blisters on the back of my hand) from my day in my tent on my rest day when I forgot to put sunblock on.
- Calves and heels are super sore from rudder pedal-using.
- Forearms get tired still, but my upper arm and back muscles are feeling good! I still feel like I’ve used them and they get stiff by the end of the day, but they’re feeling well-conditioned finally. I just did 37 miles the other day and it didn’t feel any worse than a normal 20-something mile day!
- Infected bug bites are healing, and I am incurring many fewer than I did the first few weeks.
- Hemangioma continues to burst and bleed and be annoying, but it’s finally healed over and doesn’t have a scab anymore, so maybe that will help.
- Diet: getting down to the dredges of what I can eat cold. Yesterday I had dried dates and honey for lunch and a can of beans for dinner. Can’t wait to get a replacement stove this weekend! I will eat spaghetti and make pancakes!
- Now that this life has become somewhat routine, I am still happy and enjoying myself, but notice some anxious thoughts creeping in about the rest of my life. Trying to keep them at bay. So far, no panic attacks. Not even close :)
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