Hmm, after all the great feedback and working very hard (and succeeding!) for last three weeks to get my sad brain to shut up and my body to get into the pool, I fell and broke my hand. :shakeshead:
So now my question is, has anyone ever swum in a waterproof cast (doctor said it was a possibility once I'm a little bit healed)? I've asked a few people and have been advised against it, in that they say these casts begin to reek quite quickly (I'm assuming that at least for a few weeks I won't be able to take it on/off).
Perhaps this will be my opportunity to cross-train extensively.... Take up ballet again.... Shoot! is all I can say. Four to eight weeks of cast-ville.
Advice re waterproof casts? (I did search here but nothing popped up.)
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(I used a shop vac with an "edger" attatchment worked to suck out the water mid-cast) then a hair dryer worked. I also used to put one of those ceramic heaters with the fan on "hi" right near my leg after it got wet (while eating, watching TV, etc.)
You are giving this advice to someone who almost burned down her apartment building by forgetting that she had put rice cakes in her toaster oven to crisp up? And who was in the adjacent room and told herself not to overreact to smell of smoke because she often does and has called fired department for outdoor smell of wood stoves and so she said ignore the smoke? And then she said, ooo ooo ooo I forgot about my rice cakes and the toaster oven was on fire and she pulled the rice cakes out with her bare hands and stomped on them with her feet and melted both the soles of her shoes and the linoleum kitchen floor and one rice cake still flaming slid right under the chair where her fleece jacket was hanging?
I would electrocute myself.
I agree, though. I swam last night (yeah yeah yeah!) with arms at side or streamlined and did dolphin kick and kickboard kick and backstroke rotation drill kick, but none of this was very aerobic (except underwater dolphin kick). It is cold here in Boston and I have to walk about 15 minutes from pool to subway and my cast arm was wet and freezing. Am wondering if it would actually freeze. Ice on injury good, right? Cast took at least an hour to dry.
Long post. Obviously I am somewhat bored and housebound and unemployed au present since I am editor and need right hand to do the kind of pencil/paper editing I do.
Am reading the uplifting SCARLET LETTER for the zillionth time. Actually it is good because it is set in Salem, closeby. Cheers. I will stop here.
(I used a shop vac with an "edger" attatchment worked to suck out the water mid-cast) then a hair dryer worked. I also used to put one of those ceramic heaters with the fan on "hi" right near my leg after it got wet (while eating, watching TV, etc.)
You are giving this advice to someone who almost burned down her apartment building by forgetting that she had put rice cakes in her toaster oven to crisp up? And who was in the adjacent room and told herself not to overreact to smell of smoke because she often does and has called fired department for outdoor smell of wood stoves and so she said ignore the smoke? And then she said, ooo ooo ooo I forgot about my rice cakes and the toaster oven was on fire and she pulled the rice cakes out with her bare hands and stomped on them with her feet and melted both the soles of her shoes and the linoleum kitchen floor and one rice cake still flaming slid right under the chair where her fleece jacket was hanging?
I would electrocute myself.
I agree, though. I swam last night (yeah yeah yeah!) with arms at side or streamlined and did dolphin kick and kickboard kick and backstroke rotation drill kick, but none of this was very aerobic (except underwater dolphin kick). It is cold here in Boston and I have to walk about 15 minutes from pool to subway and my cast arm was wet and freezing. Am wondering if it would actually freeze. Ice on injury good, right? Cast took at least an hour to dry.
Long post. Obviously I am somewhat bored and housebound and unemployed au present since I am editor and need right hand to do the kind of pencil/paper editing I do.
Am reading the uplifting SCARLET LETTER for the zillionth time. Actually it is good because it is set in Salem, closeby. Cheers. I will stop here.
