{"id":1320,"date":"2009-02-09T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:36:00","slug":"that-was-then-and-this-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"That Was Then, And This Is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past, I always swore that Ocular Fusion<\/em> would never devolve into one of those TMI “OMG, my big toe aches and I want everybody in the universe to know about it and sympathize with me” kind of blogs.<\/p>\n

But that was then, and this is now.<\/p>\n

That was before I happily ventured out into the sunny, 65 degree Alabama weather this past Saturday and down to McGucken Park to fling the Frisbee disc with Number One Son and Uncle T. who was visiting from Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

And now my right gluteus maximus<\/em> is tied-up tighter than King Tut and a tombful of his Egyptian cousins and concubines.<\/p>\n

I just thought you needed to know that. Can I get a witness?<\/p>\n

I honed my mad Frisbee skillz in the parking lot of The Roanoke Church of Christ in the 1970s and raised them to a high art form on the quad at Harding University in the early 80s. Even as recently as a few years ago, one of Number One’s friends saw me playing (they must have been about twelve at the time) and was so impressed that he asked, “Hey, did your dad used to be a pro<\/em> or something?”<\/p>\n

Yeah kid, and don’t you forget it. I was a shoe-in for the National Team roster and headed for a lucrative pro Frisbee contract when I got distracted by that whole optometry thing. Cue Springsteen’s “Glory Days.”<\/p>\n

But that was then, and this is now.<\/p>\n

And now I would have been much better served by taking it easy and recalling that throwing the disc over and over and over involves mainly one side of the body and the repetitive contraction of a muscle that one normally doesn’t use that much or even think about having much less say out loud (i.e., the gluteus maximus<\/em>) and the overextension of that same muscle when catching the disc between one’s legs (yes, I can still do that and all kinds of other gnarly things!).<\/p>\n

Back then I would have been able to throw the disc for hours on a beautiful and tantalizing sneak-peak-of-Spring February day and awake two days later feeling just fine.<\/p>\n

But now I’m feeling the burn of that 48-hour lactic acid lag and hobbling up and down the hall so badly that I’m starting to get some sympathetic glances from my walker-assisted 80-year-old patients. And I in turn am eyeing their titanium-reinforced walkers and thinking, Hey, those are kinda nice, I wonder if Mr. Geezer over there \u00a0would mind if I “borrowed” his?<\/em><\/p>\n

True, that was then, and this is now. But one thing hasn’t changed\u2014I had a blast. And honestly, if I had it to do over again, I probably would.\n<\/p>\n

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