{"id":33174,"date":"2021-01-30T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=33174"},"modified":"2021-01-30T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T08:01:22","slug":"my-kegels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/my-kegels\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops. I Forgot to Do My Kegels. I Blame the Coronavirus. Sheltering at Home Week 46"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not many stop signs in my life these days. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Remembering My Kegels. Sheltering at Home Week 46<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, my gosh! I forgot about my Kegels. You’re supposed to do them every day. Without fail.<\/p>\n

I haven’t done mine in months.<\/p>\n

I blame the pandemic. Thanks to all this sheltering at home I’ve been doing, I rarely get in the car and drive anywhere. And for years my Kegel routine has depended on those extra seconds you get added to your life when you stop for red lights and stop signs.<\/p>\n

Stop for a stop sign, one quick Kegel. Stop for a red light, there’s time for three.<\/p>\n

Squeeze, relax. Squeeze, relax.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a handy routine, and for years I was staying quite fit, Kegel-wise.<\/p>\n

Then along came the coronavirus, and I pretty much stopped driving.<\/p>\n

Neglecting My Pelvic Floor<\/strong><\/h5>\n

I forgot about my pelvic floor.<\/p>\n

I forgot about my Kegels.<\/p>\n

Until I saw two guys doing Kegels on TV.<\/p>\n

Yes, guys do Kegels. I found that out watching season two of “The Kominsky Method.” There they were, two old guys played by Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin, Kegeling in concert and hoping for better bladder control.<\/p>\n

According to the Mayo Clinic website, Kegeling might<\/a> help those guys, not just with their bladders, but with their sex lives.<\/p>\n

Might.<\/p>\n

We’ll see. I’m only half way through the second season.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as I wait for the next episode to boot up, I’m Kegeling.<\/p>\n

Here’s another story on things urinary: “The Poop on China — and the Pee.”<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0And here’s one from the olden days, when microbes were mere a annoyance: “How a Mother of Preschoolers Outwits the Might Microbe.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Before the pandemic kept me from doing much driving, I did my Kegels whenever I stopped for a red light: Brake, pause. Kegel, Kegel, Kegel.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[103,2432,2179,2152,1234,2433,2434,82,2435,2436],"class_list":["post-33174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","tag-aging","tag-alan-arkin","tag-coronavirus","tag-driving","tag-health","tag-kegel","tag-michael-douglas","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-stop-signs","tag-the-kominsky-method"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}