The injury is now a matter of proportion, the ratio of pain-free minutes to painful hours. It’s changing in a positive direction, but can still be bad. The sensation has changed. It’s sharp and localized, still sometimes in the left buttock, but primarily right above the rupture itself.

PT lasts about 30 minutes and gets me relatively free of pain for about an hour afterwards. And slowly it returns. The goal is for that hour to continually lengthen. Sometimes it feels like it is, and other times it’s definitely not.

I built a standing desk for the living room and painted it white. That led to the realization that all of my furniture should be white… so I started with the tall stools that used to belong to a minibar I inherited in my last apartment. Nice. Next will be shelves.