Physical Therapy- Day 1

I mentioned earlier, that I was going to my first therapy session today, and it went really well.  Well I think it did, when they first tested my range of motion everything seemed awesome; they said I had full range in most directions.  But when I was lying down on the table and she was massaging my shoulder and stretching it out, my range of motion was horrible.  We were both confused. 

It’s really weird because my pain slash range of motion differs almost every time I move it.  I’m going to say that it’s still very early in the healing process and perhaps my shoulder just wasn’t expecting me to work it out this soon.  Dear shoulder, please suck it up and heal.. thanks…also please stop hurting... thanks again...

One of my PT’s said I can do anything I want as long as it doesn’t hurt my shoulder, aka if it hurts stop doing it.  So yay! She did recommend I don’t run right now though, so as an alternative I will be going to the gym and getting back on the elliptical.  I plan on trying it out tomorrow morning!

Here are a few shots from lunch and  my yummy fruit salad:

Veggie wrap, before it was wrapped, hehe its so full:

And for dinner we were going to get free pizza (a deal from the Washington Post), but when I signed up for the deal, it said I wouldn’t get my coupon until Friday, LAME-SAUCE.  So my mom and I made some delish Chinese food, my phone had a heart attack when I took the picture and I lost the picture, so sorry... no picture. 

We used the Trader Joe’s Orange Chicken and used one packet of the sauce on the chicken and one packet on the veggies, it was perfect.  Usually the chicken has way too much sauce on and it and we end up wasting it, not this time!

 Alright that is all for me today.  I hope everyone had a great day!

And the Doctor says...

I have a Labrum Tear in my shoulder, awesome! Not.....

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I have physical therapy 2-3 times a week for 4-6 weeks, and after the 6 weeks if all my pain is not gone I will have to have surgery.

I looked on the John's Hopkins website for some info regarding my injury and nowhere in this document does it say it can be fixed with therapy.  I do not want to have surgery, at all, no way. Let's just hope therapy does the trick, ok? yes.

I have my first therapy session later today. I am excited to get started!

Okie, I will update again later tonight or tomorrow morning!

Back to work

Hello friends!

I went back to work today! It was really scary driving past the spot of the accident, but I managed.  We are still waiting for the other lady to call her insurance company so that they can determine fault (hers) and give me my rental car!  I am borrowing my sister's car while she is at soccer camp.

Sorry I have been terrible at taking pictures the past few days, but take a picture of my yummy cereal combo in our new Jumbo Mugs!

Everything tastes better in a jumbo mug hehe.  I still have this annoying pain in my shoulder which is preventing me from running *sad*, so I scheduled an appointment tomorrow morning to get it checked out.  I hope there isn't anything wrong with it, but I want to be 100% sure.  I am hoping to be back on track with my 10K training by the end of this week or at least by next week!  I am ready to move past this accident.

Before lunch today I had to go to the auto body place to do a "walk around" of my car before they started doing work on it.  I asked the lady if she thought they could fix my car and she said that she had seen worse and she thinks they can fix it! That is unless they start working on it and realize there is more damage internally. She said she would call me by the end of the week to let me know what was going on. We shall see.

I can't wait until the end of this week because my family from Iran is coming again!!!!!!!!!!!! yay yay yay!

Alright well that is all for me today, I promise I will post more pictures tomorrow!

Waiting around

This is how we all spent most of the weekend. 

(these are growing in our yard)

After my accident on Friday, we did a few things around the house yesterday, but for the most part we relaxed. Erik washed his car while I attempted to do some laundry.. bleh my shoulder really hurts, so I couldn't do much.   We went to World Market this weekend and got some amazing Jumbo Mugs!

Aren't they awesome?  We used them earlier to eat our fruit salad out of. We ended up going to Eastern Market this morning to get some fruit.  I was completely useless, because I couldn't carry much.  Hopefully I will heal quickly!  I might have to go see a doctor though.  We are still waiting to see what the other lady's insurance company says, then I will be able to get a rental car, until then I am driving my sister's car (which has no AC).   For now.. more lounging around, I am not looking forward to driving into work tomorrow. 

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Early morning accident

Sorry I didn't blog for a few days.

Yesterday morning on my way to work I was in a car accident. *sad* I was on my way to work and all of a sudden a car (with an 80-year old lady) made a left hand turn into my car.  She was pulling into a shopping center (I don't know what she was doing #1 driving, and #2 going shopping at 8:30am on a Friday).  She had claimed her light was green, even though my light was green.  A very nice gentleman came up to the police and told them what he saw, that in fact my light was green.  She had a green light, but not a green arrow.  Does that make sense?

Anyway, after I was hit the front and side airbags went off and I tried to get out of my car.  The door was bent, so I couldn't get the door open.  Another nice gentleman from the CVS came and yanked open my door to help me out.  I was in a considerable amount of pain, (shoulder).

 I called Erik and my mom and told them what had happened, but couldn't give them details because the ambulance arrived and wanted to look at my shoulder.   The EMT guys were so nice, and were very good at their jobs. I was relieved to have such good help.  I called my mom and Erik back and told them they were taking me to the hospital and that they should meet us there. I had a nice ride in the ambulance with the help of some pain meds and a funny EMT.

Once we got to the hospital, they took me in for xrays and determined that nothing was broken or out of place, thank goodness. I had told them when I got out of my car I felt something pop in my shoulder, and the doctor said it was most likely dislocated and when you got up it put it back into place. I am so thankful I have an amazing car, thanks Erik for picking it out. And I am so grateful that my mom and Erik were both at the hospital with me.

smooshed headlight

After we left the hospital, we went to the impound lot, where they took my car, (that is where the pictures are from), and we opened the hood and realized that everything including my engine had shifted,

my poor car, I really hope it's not totaled and that they can fix it.  I really love that car!  This is what I looked like after we got home from the hospital:

horrible. and I really have no idea how this happened, but this also burns a lot,

I am happy to be safe, and healthy! Watch out for old ladies!

As if it wasn’t bad enough

Today I get to work and my hard drive on my computer crashed!

 I had JUST finished writing most of our “Rules” for the computer program we are working on yesterday and now it’s all gone, two months of hard work…. Gone….. First our waffle maker now my computer at work….just breathe

As I mentioned yesterday, I have modified my 10K training schedule:

I think this works out better because I know I won’t get out and run on the weekends most of the time.  So in keeping up with my training this morning I took Ella out for a 1.5 Mile run.  I could have actually kept going but Ella needed to use the bathroom, if you know what I mean, and I wasn’t too keen on running with a bag in my hand (although I tried it for about 0.2 seconds, ew). I am pretty excited to keep up with this. My friend Erin asked me yesterday if I wanted to run a half marathon with her in November.  I really want to do this, but I don’t know if I can!  I would have to change up my training schedule again, I mean I could train for a half marathon and run my 10K 3 weeks before, might be doable. I told her I would think about it.

Well last night we got a nice package in the mail:

NEW COFFEE MUGS, ah the little things in life that make me so happy. Obviously mine is the pink one, ha.  Our old mugs leaked all the time and mine didn’t fit into the cup holder in my car.  But guess what:

This one does!!!  I was happy until I got to work and had to spend the entire day trying to fix my computer.  While we were trying desperately to recover my hard drive, I had one of these:

which brought a smile to my face! I think I like the mango one better.  Tomorrow I will try the green Machine one, although it’s literally green and looks funny. 

Lunch today was another veggie wrap:

Are you getting tired of looking at these?! haha. They are delish, I put avocados in this one!  After work, I went to my mommy’s house and picked her up so we could take a little trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond.  Guess what I got:

Yup a new waffle maker!  Our house felt lost and lonely without a working waffle maker, so I had to get one.  My mom and I also found these pretty wall flower cone-y things:

On clearance! WOOT. So I got two of them, and put them up:

They match perfectly with the colors of our main level!  It’s really weird when we first bought our house I was terrified, because I had NO idea how to decorate it.  I thought, I will never be able to find things that match and look good, but guess what I did!  Somehow everything just fell into place.  So if you have decoration anxiety never fear, somehow, things just happen to fall into place, and you find the most perfect things for your house when you aren’t really looking!

Anyway, sorry had to get that out there!  For dinner tonight we made burgers, sweet potato fries and tater tots!

This was the last of our tots, which means I need to make a trip to Trader Joe’s STAT!  Alright that is all for me tonight! 

Waste of Money, and a broken waffle maker :(

Hello friends! A few things I didn’t post last night because I didn’t want to make the post longer than it already was.  So I don’t know if you have ever heard of Shnoop.com but they have one crazy deal a day, and usually they are pretty sweet.  Well in the past they have sold these things called “Mystery Boxes” and my friend Luke got one and said it had some pretty cool things in it.  Well a few days ago they had another one of their “Mystery Box” sales, and so I bought one.  I cannot believe the amount of JUNK that was in it:

Needless to say I was NOT happy with what I got. I mean look at this thing:

It has to be from 1957, who even uses one these?! And honestly I have NO IDEA what this thing is:

Or who even uses these things:

Ugh sorry, I was annoyed that I wasted $10 on this.  Lesson learned, “Never listen to Luke”.  Yea I am blaming him.  Anyway, I was super excited for breakfast this morning:

Ultimate cereal combo! Oh Oatmeal Squares and Honey Nut cheerios how I have missed you! I added half a banana to this after I took the picture.   For lunch today I made myself a veggie wrap!

Chili Pepper Humus, cucumbers, cheddar cheese, spring mix and red peppers on a whole wheat wrap/tortilla. I had some super delish grapes on the side:

Oh man this was so good I am going to make this for the rest of the week, well really tomorrow and Thursday!  The next step in making this healthier is to make my own humus! I’ve tried making it before but I couldn’t get the taste right, I will have to try again.

Tonight was breakfast for dinner night, our favorite dinner, and we were making our waffles, bacon and eggs when we noticed that our waffle maker wasn't working correctly.  We gave it a few more minutes to see if it would cook the waffles but no, it was broken! We did manage to get one set of waffles out of the maker before it died.

While the waffles tasted great, they were, just like our spirits, deflated *sad face*.  We haven't even had this darn thing for that long, yes we use it every other weekend and we have had it for two years, but COME ON! I decided I was going to make myself a breakfast burrito to go along with my sad sad waffle:

mmm at least the burrito made up for the lack of waffle. 

Alright I am beat.  I decided to change up the 10k training schedule, I will tell you about it tomorrow, and thanks Tara for your advice, I will definitely be emailing you for help!

10K Training

Hello friends! Ugh Monday! It is really the worst day of the week, especially after a great weekend! Today marks the day I start training for my 10K in October.  Why start training 16 weeks before the actual (easy?) event?  Well because I am not a runner. As I have said before the longest distance I have ever run consecutively has been 3 miles, and believe me when I say it was hard for me.  I don’t know why I just have no running stamina.  I am really hoping to change that.

A few weeks ago, we went to National Harbor with our friends Sean and Brandy and I really don’t remember how it came up but talked about running a half marathon.  We were all geared up to sign up for one in Va Beach, when we came to our senses and decided to start small. I did a quick google search to find a training schedule for our first 10K and came up with this:

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Which requires an 8 week commitment.  Then after I have completed the first 8 weeks, I will move onto actually traning for the 10K race following this schedule:

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Which also requires an 8 week commitment, hence starting my traning 16 weeks before the event.  To all you runners out there, is this overkill?

I was going for the slow and steady wins the race mentality, aka I don’t want to run myself into the ground and get injured.  As of right now I can run 2 miles straight, but I have some trouble with it.  Ironically, day one is a rest day? Haha, well ok so it says, rest/run/walk.  I chose to run outside with Ella today. It was really hot again today:

Poor doggie. Ok enough running talk for today, let’s move onto food shall we?

Breakfast cereal combo with half a banana, can’t go wrong. OH MAN, I totally forgot to mention this yesterday, but at Costco they had a GIANT box of Oatmeal squares, so we bought two of them. I cannot wait to dig into these bad boys.

Lunch today was something my mom made me last week.

It doesn’t have a name, it is just something that we used to eat a lot when I was younger and apparently they eat a great deal of in Iran on a hot summer day.  It’s yogurt but my mom put in a whole bunch of yummy herbs, walnuts, raisins, and apples. I had some of it, well most of it, on Saturday afternoon, but had some leftover so I brought it for lunch today with a whole wheat tortilla:

Thank you mommy!

Yesterday when we went to Costco, we bought these:

I have never tried these before and have wanted to for a while.  Today I had the Mighty Mango flavor, and oh man was this amazing.  It was just want I needed this afternoon to curb my hunger at work. 

After my run with Ella I started making dinner:

Creole Stuffed Mushrooms

Course: side dishes PointsPlus™ Value:    1 Servings:  12 Preparation Time:  15 min Cooking Time:  20 min Level of Difficulty:  Moderate

Ingredients 1 spray(s) olive oil cooking spray    1 pound(s) button mushrooms, about 24 large mushrooms    1 tsp olive oil    1/4 cup(s) onion(s), chopped    1/4 cup(s) sweet red pepper(s), chopped    10 oz chopped frozen spinach, thawed and drained    2 1/2 slice(s) whole-wheat bread, chopped into bread crumbs    1 tsp Creole seasoning, or Cajun seasoning    1/4 tsp ground turmeric    Instructions ·         Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly coat a jelly roll pan with cooking spray. ·         Remove mushroom stems from caps and finely chop stems; reserve caps and set aside. ·         Heat oil in a large skillet over high heat. Sauté mushroom stems, onion, pepper and spinach until tender, about 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and stir in remaining ingredients until well-combined. ·         Stuff each mushroom cap with 2 tablespoons of filling mixture. Place mushrooms, stuffed sides up, on jellyroll pan. Bake, uncovered, 15 minutes; serve warm. Yields 2 mushrooms per serving.

I obviously modified this recipe a bit so that we didn’t have 24 giant stuffed mushrooms, haha.  They were pretty good, I think they looked better than they tasted, so I was a bit disappointed.

Alright that is all for me today, sorry for the long post, I had a lot to cover today!