proof of concept

I can get on and off the bike trainer safely with the stepstool and the seat-to-pedal distance is correct. I am not comforted by the angle of my back. But I can cycle for a bit. I only did it for a couple of minutes.

So another thing I'm working on is being less absurd going up and down stairs. I don't think I should be using both hands for much longer. Especially now that I know that the reason I've been using both hands is that I'm not using the right muscles. Zack says lunges, so I'll do some of those in a bit. For now I'm trying to concentrate on going up and down stairs normally.  It's not easy, because if I don't use both hands I lurch quite a bit, because not using my shoulders means I uncover the deep systematic faking it I've been doing. So I'm taking it slow and concentrating on not lurching.

I moved the laptop upstairs because downstairs on the couch I was hanging my legs over the edge and they were swelling. Now I don't do that. It has the added benefit of making me climb the stairs more often because I have to eat and go to the bathroom and take care of minutiae. It has the other mixed-benefit of inducing me to nap more because my bed is so much more seductive than the couch. Mixed because I probably do need to nap more but on the other hand it interferes with my intentions of writing more.

Also I intend to eat less since I seem to be in a different phase of healing where I'm not ravenous all the time and where I'm not losing weight anymore.