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[derien]

Dammit, my knees are backsliding from how they felt last night, and now I can barely bend them again.

Things I'm glad we had for the hike -

raincoats

sufficient food and water(am really glad I got the thai curry cashews and maple roasted cashews and that I bought the new Camelbak tank!) 

polarfleece jackets

smartwool socks (they totally rock about keeping your feet warm even when soaked!)

 

Things I wish we'd had -

rainpants (one of the other hikers had them and he was in much better shape on the way down than we were.)  TOUGH rainpants, though, because sliding over the rocks might take it out of them. 

 

Things I hope to change next year -

The pokey thing that was happening with the struts in my pack against my back.  Eor has already rebent the struts somewhat, I'll have to pay more attention to getting that sorted out in future hikes;  I have a bruise.  

 

You ever notice how there's all those "This body climbed Mount Washington" t-shirts, but none for Katahdin?  It's not freaking fair.  I think it's really a harder climb in a lot of ways.  But of course nobody wants to get up there to sell shirts.  (I still plan to get a Mt. Washington t-shirt.  I earned it, even if it was two years ago.  I may make my own Katahdin shirt, if I ever make the damned summit.)

 

In completely unrelated news, I have an appointment with a plastic surgeon to discuss breast reduction.  I'm so excited!  Kind of scared, but mostly excited.  :)  I've wanted this since I was seventeen!

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I don't know exactly. One site said it could be from $5,000 to $7,000 (USD). One of the most important questions I have to ask the plastic surgeon will have to be if he can estimate that for me - how much I'll have to pay and how much insurance might cover.

It's gotten to the point where I've had these nagging shoulder and neck problems for so long that I ended up at a specialist. She and the physical therapist I had been seeing had both commented on the fact that my whole body has a slight twist to it, and when I explained to her that one of my breasts is a full cup size larger than the other she agreed that it did indeed sound as though that might be a good reason why I'd be somewhat twisted... physically, that is. Eor commented that I'd bought the right candy bar, the one with the golden wrapper. He's been reading a lot of Roald Dahl, lately. :)