A broken heart, swellomatic, night school

I was shocked by the news that Carrie Fisher’s mother, Debbie Reynolds died one day after her daughter passed away.  Despite being 84 from what I read she was in decent health.  From a medical perspective, dying from a broken heart is sort of a real thing, a physical response to extreme emotional distress.  The story I read said she basically said she wanted to be with Carrie and shortly after that she dropped.  It hasn’t been a very upbeat end of the year, that’s for sure.

My twice operated on right knee has been doing pretty well for a number of months.  I have done more running in 2016 than I have the past 3-4 years for sure.  Well this morning I am walking around with a noticeable limp and my knee has that old familiar feeling of swelling and pain I have dealt with off and on for the last 15 years.

At least I know exactly how it got to this point.  On Christmas Day I was out on the slackline which we set up in the yard for entertainment.  I fell off around the half way point and came down awkwardly on my right leg in a way that quickly compressed the knee further than it would normally go on it’s own.  I then ran four miles on Monday and did lower body weight training yesterday, doing both things with knee pain going into them.  So of course the fault is entirely mine, I just hope the end result is just a few days of discomfort with my being able to return to business as usual by the weekend.

Last night we met up with Katie and Daniel at the school to ride around.  I was surprised when I saw the Ninebot One I gave Daniel had reverted back to it’s pure white appearance.  Katie peeled off the orange plasti-dip I applied to the outer ring.  The dip was pretty beat up from various bumps and scrapes.  I think Daniel is going to wind up buying a set of translucent outer rings I told him about for the bot to enhance the lighting so that will be even cooler than orange plastidip.

We took turns swapping wheels, including Cindy’s new wheel in the mix.  The LED lights on the Gotway MCM4 look incredibly cool at night. I even let Katie ride my Msuper, her first time on the big and heavy wheel.  She did well handling it but said she preferred her lighter and more nimble Inmotion V5F.  We were riding around the street lamp lit grounds for over an hour.  EUC riding always makes things a little better.

Yesterday was Nicki’s birthday.  I miss her sweet innocence as much today as ever.