LOL, I thought that might be you and refreshed to check. :)
I don't have the excuse of pain for not doing mine. I don't have any more excuse for letting them slide than I do for not doing the dishes. I just... lack willpower. I hate it about myself, and hating it doesn't help.
On some level, I think it's that it's a bit dismal to be working your ass off knowing that because of mechanical limitations you'll never realize very much gain, and you'll always have to keep up the extra work just to hit a goal that's still sub par. I realized that was a factor last night, when I convinced myself to do leg lifts by giving myself the 'carrot' of doing arm work, too. The arm work is just as boring, but since there's nothing mechanically wrong with my arms I feel like I'm working on self-improvement instead of playing a hopeless game of catch-up, if that makes any sense.
As for Joker's PT, I do try to pay attention to whether the thing I'm borrowing from my own experience actually makes sense with OI. Luckily (heh), there turns out to be quite a bit of commonality I can draw from. It's almost freaky how much carries over. I correspond with a reader who's boyfriend has OI, and we just discovered that he and I have the same type of nerve damage induced numb spots on our legs, from the same type of surgery!
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Date: 2012-04-25 06:12 pm (UTC)From:I don't have the excuse of pain for not doing mine. I don't have any more excuse for letting them slide than I do for not doing the dishes. I just... lack willpower. I hate it about myself, and hating it doesn't help.
On some level, I think it's that it's a bit dismal to be working your ass off knowing that because of mechanical limitations you'll never realize very much gain, and you'll always have to keep up the extra work just to hit a goal that's still sub par. I realized that was a factor last night, when I convinced myself to do leg lifts by giving myself the 'carrot' of doing arm work, too. The arm work is just as boring, but since there's nothing mechanically wrong with my arms I feel like I'm working on self-improvement instead of playing a hopeless game of catch-up, if that makes any sense.
As for Joker's PT, I do try to pay attention to whether the thing I'm borrowing from my own experience actually makes sense with OI. Luckily (heh), there turns out to be quite a bit of commonality I can draw from. It's almost freaky how much carries over. I correspond with a reader who's boyfriend has OI, and we just discovered that he and I have the same type of nerve damage induced numb spots on our legs, from the same type of surgery!