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Category Archives: Muscles
A Standing Ovation
I am beginning to get worried by my legs. Often over the past month, I’ve had a lot of trouble standing up. I can stand, that’s not the problem really. It’s more being able to stay standing. I have to … Continue reading
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Crick and Crack
It’s common knowledge that my legs don’t usually like me to walk but lately they don’t like it when I try to stand either. At first I thought it was a fluke: I went to stand, to get out of … Continue reading
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Stumble and Disdain
My legs are continuing to betray me. I don’t know why they have it in for me, but they do. I wonder if that twin of mine, the one who rests inside my body, has hired my legs to do … Continue reading
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Glass Slippers and Falling Leaves
I feel old lately. The weeks have not been kind to my body. Every day I feel more and more pain with every step I take. The spasms in my legs have been getting worse and I do not know … Continue reading
A Marked Man
I am still convinced that my legs are trying to get me killed. Sure, they may not be trying too hard; but I know it is one of their many efforts aside from walking. Last Saturday, we went out to … Continue reading
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Limitations of the Body
I have been quiet again. But it’s not because I’m depressed. It’s because I’m moving. I hate moving. I hate it with a passion. I hate the packing, the boxes, the newspaper and bubble wrap. But there is one reason … Continue reading
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A Constant Companion
Pain has been a constant companion lately. I carry it with me like a feather boa that is wrapped around my throat tightly so that I cannot get air. Or perhaps it is like concrete that slowly drips down my … Continue reading
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A Birthday Dream
I did not sleep well last night. I was dreaming again. I have been cursed or blessed (I’m not sure which) with being able to remember almost all my dreams in photographic detail. Sometimes this is a good thing: a … Continue reading
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Quiet Conversation/Simple Pleasures
I am slightly worried. My legs have been seizing up lately, turning from flesh into rock and stone at a moments notice. This is not so unusual for me except that normally I have some sort of warning that my … Continue reading
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Fear/Love
I think I frightened my husband last night. Lying in bed, waiting for sleep to claim me once again, my entire body spasmed at once. I know I shook the bed, that my husband felt me shake. I don’t think … Continue reading
Two Steps at a Time 