Suck it up buttercup
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Shouldn’t you be in Tai Chi?
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My dog is a rescue too - we’ve had him for about 4 months. He can be skittish with other dogs or strangers outside of the house but he is such a sweetheart in his own environment. If this is a family you work for, I understand not wanting to push the issue. If your wound becomes IN ANY WAY infected or isn’t healing properly, you need to go to an urgent care and formally report the bite. Unless it’s a life-threatening injury, the dog will get three strikes. It’s a shame, dogs like that can live long lives with aggressive tendencies IF their owners are cognizant of their problems and don’t subject them to triggering circumstances. Unfortunately, people are stupid and just say la-di-da while their scared and anxious dog bites people to protect them and gets put down for reacting to a situation they never should have been in in the first place.
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I suggest Jack Daniels. That should help.
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I have always heard “hair of the dog that bit you”
Sounded like voodoo to me honestly.
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Are you suggesting the best remedy is to bite the dog back? Or to eat the dog?
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Is that what “man bites dog” was all about? Man, all these colloquial expressions are FINALLY starting to make sense!
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I woke up with a stomach bug or food poisoning or something yesterday morning. My morning appointments were cancelled because we had a storm, so despite clear signs that something was off, I spent 45 minutes on the treadmill, but just walking (a nod to the clear signs), before getting ready to go into work for the afternoon. Part of my thinking was that it would be a trial by fire…if I could handle a three mile walk and 24 oz of water, I was essentially okay. After I showered and dressed and all, I realized I was running a temperature and finally, after much agonizing because I’m going to be out for two weeks after next week, cancelled the rest of my day. I had a new mother coming in, a woman whose had multiple strokes, etc. I would keep whatever I had (potentially the flu) to myself and stay on the couch watching Downton Abbey.
Woke up this morning and did a self-check…things feel okay, no fever, good. So THEN I have to decide about working out and this really compulsive stuff starts happening. I’ve put my shoes on and taken them back off twice. Like, the world won’t end if I don’t do hill sprints today! But it sort of feels like it will.
I confess that I don’t mind the part of “compulsive” that’s kept me relatively on track over the years, but I don’t like the part that makes me feel like a complete nut job.
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Determinism feels otherwise!
I did squats and lunges in the hospital room the day after my surgery while I still had a catheter and iv in- you’ll be fine 
Food poisoning/stomach bug is a real bitch though
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If it were just me I wouldn’t hesitate. What’s the worst that can happen, I feel ill? But the clients depend on me. And I’m going to be out for two weeks at the end of the month.
So it’s more of an id/ego thing I guess.
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This isn’t the first time this has been mentioned, that if something bit me IT may die. Poor doggy. 
Do I have to go back and wrestle said dog for new hair? Or can I just use the ones that are stuck on clothes?
I was taking the world ending at a literal value there for the sake of a punchline.
But I also enjoy id and ego. Superego can go take a hike.
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Ran into that last week. Friday it took effort just to get off the couch and stumble to the bathroom. Yet i felt conflicted because I knew there was no way I could make it through a lifting session.
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After rereading his post it sounds like he wants something more than a hug. Reading between the lines it sounds like someone is having a hard time dealing with the fact that they aren’t a special snowflake.
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Yup.
Teenage records do far more harm than good. Yeah, it’s cool to get teens into lifting, but the records are such low hanging fruit that they trick themselves into thinking they’re something special when they get them, and then they grow out of being a teen, find out just how much stronger the rest of the world is, get disillusioned and quit.
All a teenage record tends to indicate is who started training the earliest.
I also had to chuckle at “I had sponsors lined up”. I’m more than a million percent certain that this meant some supplement company was going to give him 15% off if he shared his promotion code.
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Sadly, some get too caught up in past glory
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Good joke: there’s none of that in powerlifting, haha.
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