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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2010-02-02 08:59 am
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Ultra-sound

We took Odi for an ultra-sound scan- and came away with photos of the tiny, peanut-shaped baby. The photos should have cost us £4.50, but the woman working the machine gave us them for free as an apology for making us wait so long. The waiting was actually  no hardship. Fabrizio treated it as playtime and went the rounds of everyone in the room- climbing into laps and being rewarded with crisps. We were the last to be seen. Left in an empty waiting room with an excited child to entertain, I turned, as I do in these circumstances, into a performing elephant. I was going to say it does my poor old bones no favours, but, on reflection,  I believe I'm all the better for the exercise.
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[identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ultrasounds are just an amazing tool.
And even though your bones may ache after playing elephant, the exercise IS good!
:)

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes" to both of those! :)

[identity profile] daisytells.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Good for you, Tony! As for the exercise, of course it's good. My doctor recommended a gym as part of my arthritis treatment. So I walk the treadmill for fifteen minutes and I ride the stationary bike for fifteen minutes two or three times a week. Result? A lot less pain and a lot more flexibility.
If I sit still too long in that wonderfully seductive and comfortable rocking chair, all the joints freeze up and then, oh woe is me!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-02-02 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't get enough exercise- I know I don't.
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