some bits hEDS

 had a good talk with an old friend about the nutrition and family history thing with hEDS (hypermobile Ehler Danlos syndrome) and then deep dove into some of the biochemistry stuff that I had read a few years ago about collagen production and ways to support - it's not a cure, and the body still makes 'bad' collagen, but let it make the best bad collagen it can when it can is the theory... by having the right nutrients present, and that is better than bad bad collagen, from bad nutrition.  That seems to have been serving me better the past few years.

 

The burn on my hand healed after about a week and a half, and when the skin peeled, it didn't pull extra layers off and cause more wounds which in the past, has been the way that worked - I would have to heal about three times from a thing like that, in different stages.

But there are other annoyances that still keep showing up.  Like, crocheting for a few hours the other day, and my arm feeling like I held a great weight up for hours the next day.  And I slipped down an enbankment on Saturday, but that could have been much worse, and the muscle on my inner shin that helped catch that foot from slipping further 'woke up' and screamed nine hours after the slip and for about ten minutes felt like I had ripped the muscle off and put it back on wrong.  The collagen in those muscles finally decided 'yup, we're done, we held it up when you needed it but now the breakdown is happening, let's all give up at once and start requesting healing'.  That always surprises me, because I have to remember what I did, and because it was usually 10-12 hours ago, it can sometimes be very hard to connect.  And it seems illogical to anyone else.  I tried unsuccessfully to explain to a bad manager once why bringing out a bunch of 100-400 lb. vanities at 9 o'clock at night for me to put in topstock before we got out at 10 pm was a really bad idea for me, when he wanted me back there again at 7 am.  He just could not wrap his head around it - it seemed like I had to be just trying to get out of work.  I offered to put them up at 7 am as soon as I got in - for a chance to be functional for the whole day and fall over later THAT night... and he still didn't get it.

 Yesterday it was my left knee - I had been walking a lot, quickly to catch semi trucks that pull up before the driver gets out and runs through our building and I have to find out where they are wandering.  And that feels better today but the left ankle, which I guess did more work for the left knee, is now feeling like I dislocated and put it back in place, which I didn't, yesterday.  I've done that before - and this just feels like that.

Off to work here in a bit - less catching trucks today - there were three yesterday which is a lot in one day.