COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Sitting here typing this up, listening to Schism yet again.
Yesterday I got an email from BRR advertising a Running + Tacos event, I forwarded to LA as a follow-up joke, and he got tacos in his head. Pulled me out to the place near him at 815pm - late for me!
Got home and found my almost-lost-to-garbage chrysalis was changing color - the pigmentation of the butterfly was increasing and becoming visible! YAY! So while I nom'd my just-purchased instant taters and butter spread (ugh) while I worked to configure a safe place for it to emerge, which was expected sometime in the next 24 hours. I put her in a large bowl with a cover, hung the chyrsalis on a stick on the side. Then to bed. Too full of taters (ugh). But NO M and that's a WIN.
Slept in until almost 7, having woken a few times for the dog. I went downstairs for tea and brekkie, got chatting with LA on text, went back upstairs and found my butterfly - pretty girl - had hatched! I was eating and missed it (ugh). She was on her back, I tipped the paper towel to roll her over, and went downstairs to take her outside. She never really seemed to thrive, didn't grab on to hang on the towel, a stick, or a screen. Small droplets of green-tinged fluid was leaking out under her wings, at her 'shoulders', I'm thinking this is what is supposed to inflate her wings!? After an hour she didn't improve - clumsy, non-grasping, and no wing inflaction. I left her on the screen, on a big milkweed in the sun. She fell off once, picked her back up, but left her for the day without much hope for her survival.
I just learned that they don't hatch, they eclose. I did not however find out what happened in the end with the green fluid. I also learned they eclose in the daylight, often morning!
In good news though, a had another cat go into J last night, then pupate this morning. And 5 of my 6 eggs have hatched!
No Thursday run today. First of many more to come. No answer yet from the Orthopedics doc regarding my questions about the 'usefulness' of crutches - are they for healing or for pain? Waiting on that. I have lots of pain when you loosen the definition of pain to "any sensation of discomfort". I can deal with lots of pain, but don't consider painful discomfort as really "pain". Pain to me is like what stops you from doing something. Like a 100K......the one I walked most of.... hmm. lol.
Looked into the injury more, defining the terms. As I understand it, the stress fracture is on the right pubic bone, is parasymphyeal (meaning it's para/near the symphyseal site, which is the cartilage area between the right and left pubic bones), and it's described by the radiologist as a non-displaced fracture. Looking at the anatomy images, that right where my pain is. I'd been calling it an adductor injury.
I have an odd sort of pride in having this stress fracture -- in that it's a rare one that occurs in long distance runners and triathletes. It means I'm a long distance runner! HA!
Lastly, my mind keeps wandering to one year ago today. Still in hospital, 2nd PCI cancelled, family here visiting, lots of questions. And I can't help but see parallels between my butterflies and last year. My changes, transformations, etc, like the caterpillars.
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