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Turning a corner

Posted on March 27, 2024 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

I’m happy to report that I seem to be turning a corner lately. Actually, many corners. My knee is the biggest and best corner I’m turning. It feels ...

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Five on a Friday: The all kinds of ways I felt today

Posted on March 22, 2024 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

I have tried to write this post several times, but today has been A DAY. And I finally decided to just make the post about all the ways I felt today, instead of...

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Ping Pong Thoughts on a Thursday

Posted on March 20, 2024 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

My thoughts are a jumble lately. Welcome to hard-to-follow train of thought… My crappy mood continues. I’ve even had some tearful outbursts! Those l...

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Weekend Highs and Lows

Posted on March 18, 2024 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

This weekend was… not great. I’m still struggling with poor sleep and general moodiness. I’m feeling so over this knee injury and how long it&...

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Two 5s on a Friday: What’s working (and what’s not)

Posted on March 15, 2024 by noemikjames / 5 Comments

This week has been a little rough for me. I’ve been super anxious about my knee; the possibility of just tripping weirdly and tearing my ACL completely ma...

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Build-a-weekend

Posted on March 11, 2024 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

This past weekend was a lot of prepping for the coming week. Also a lot of putting things together and taking things apart. I put together a cargo carrier for o...

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(Surprising and confusing) MRI Results

Posted on March 8, 2024 by noemikjames / 5 Comments

Sorry I’m just getting this up so late on a Friday. I spent Thursday afternoon processing and then Thursday night I had one of the most acute bouts of ins...

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MRI tonight

Posted on March 6, 2024 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

I was well enough on Monday afternoon to see my sports medicine specialist, who tugged a bunch on my knee and ordered an MRI. She said that even though it never...

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Weekend (Severe) Highs and Lows

Posted on March 4, 2024 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

The highs and lows this weekend were pretty extreme. I’m really hoping this next week is calmer, more even keeled. Friday HIGHS: I got my Spanish 1B tests...

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Five on Friday: Knee update (and advice requested)

Posted on March 1, 2024 by noemikjames / 6 Comments

My husband and I both were realizing last night that we’d only been back for a full week that evening. After an a great initial three days back (Friday, p...

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