The beauty of Boulder
Way too much has been happening… I’ll try to hit some highlights.
I had my first session with JZ’s physical therapist, Bob Cranny. I have seen so many people for help with my back that I’m sure you can appreciate my reluctance to feel enthusiastic for any new professional on the team. With that said, I truly believe that at SOME point, someone has got to come along who is able to fix me. That is not an intended slam against any of my caregivers. Each person I have seen has given me every ounce of their energy and knowledge … they have helped in every way they knew how, and no one could be more grateful to have their continued vested interest than me. But the fact remains, I am in worse condition, so something isn’t working. I don’t know what, but my progressive slope is in the negative.
I’ll probably write at greater length about Bob in another blog; it seems we’ll be working together indefinitely. (Thank goodness!) In short, I will say this: Bob’s initial analysis included movements no one had yet asked me to do, and something about this approach seemed very different. Every person has done different things – but his stuff was REALLY different. He concluded with several paragraphs worth of findings – but the most dramatic, AND DIFFERENT, was that I am actually hyper-mobile in my back. At one point I was on my stomach and he held my lower back stable with one hand, and lifted my hip with the other.
“Do you see this?”, he asked, “This is not supposed to happen. I should not be able to shift your hip backwards like this”. With this condition in mind, he viewed all the exercises and stretches I had been given and sighed heavily for me as he told me that almost every one of them would actually worsen the condition.
AMEN!!!! I almost wanted to cry when he said that because I had thought I was CRAZY thinking I was worse, but he promised me I would be given what I had been doing. When our appointment was over, he hugged me and said, “We’ll fix this, Carole”.
uggg…
Friday night I had dinner at West End with Billy Edwards, Lara Cooper, Michael Stone and Mark Shenk (JZ’s hub). We called JZ from the table to wish her luck at Eagleman and told her we missed her lively personality from our dining.
We also ran into a “very happy” Jon Robichaud in the bar who was celebrating his birthday with great enthusiasm. 
He kept saying, “I’m so glad you’re here, Sharpie” but in his condition I think he would have said that to anyone.
Happy birthday, Jon!
Yesterday morning I met my teammate and friend, Laura Tingle, and her bf Denny Meeker at Amantes. Denny headed on for his run while Ting and I enjoyed some chat over java. Denny lives 2 blocks from me, so I know we’ll all get to hang quite a bit this summer…
Will keep trying to post some updates. Some things are in the works – I’ll keep reporting in…
So glad to hear some hopeful and validating news about your back. We miss you here in Atlanta.
friend, like amy said…VALIDATION! you knew you felt worse…and I am also hopeful for you that you can “be fixed” when i ran this am…i was doing the dirty end of columns…it was funny, i was like looking for you out there on my run. and then i thought of what you were doing right at that moment. ok, so it was really early so you were sleeping probably
but i thought of you running trails and drinking coffee and smiling with friends. now i know that IS what you are/will be doing. one of the best things for the soul in my humble opinion. Love, Kristy