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jemck at 09:25am on 19/01/2009
jemck at 09:25am on 19/01/2009Well, that was/is tiresome. Back ache woke me up last Thursday night. By which I mean, severe pain. And, for those who may be unaware, '10' on my personal-medical-experience scale means 'pulse/bp being checked every 15 minutes, family being quoted odds of less than 50% by grim-faced doctors'. So, when I say it hurt, believe me, it hurt.
But life goes on, especially with teenage sons needing rousting out of bed, getting to school, banking and post office admin, shopping if the family is to eat etc. And doctors say keep a bad back mobile these days, don't they?
Consequently by Friday bed time, the little cat jumping on the sofa beside me prompted yelps of pain and husband had to help me undress. Spent Friday night trying and mostly failing to find some way, any way of sitting/lying that reduced the pain from excruciating to clenched-jaw bearable. This after the application of painkillers, deep heat massage etc.
Saturday was more of the same. Staying bolt upright helped a bit but by now, anything more than shallow breathing prompted stabbing pain half way up my back on the left hand side, sharp enough to momentarily stop me breathing. Y'know, I was actually contemplating seeking medical advice. And wondering how I could have for eg broken a rib without noticing it.
Anyway, I fell asleep about 2.30 am Sunday, when the exhaustion finally outdid the pain. And woke up feeling better. As in improved, rather than fully restored. Crucially, the acute and specifically located pain was absent. So I spent the day moving around incredibly carefully and calling sons/husband when anything needed lifting/reaching, and all continued well.
As of this morning, my back is sore, in that the muscles that have spent the last few days knotted up are protesting mightily. I continue to move around cautiously. And am currently thinking I must have knocked something (rib? disc?) a bit out of alignment coming off my bike last week, which then got majorly tweaked on Thursday night. And that whatever it was has now returned to its proper place.
I think I may be giving aikido a miss this week. Discretion > valour and all that.
Work, happily, is entirely doable, given I have a proper typing chair, with lumbar support, a footstool and all that kindathing. Which is good coz I am having great fun writing the WH40K story.
Onward!
But life goes on, especially with teenage sons needing rousting out of bed, getting to school, banking and post office admin, shopping if the family is to eat etc. And doctors say keep a bad back mobile these days, don't they?
Consequently by Friday bed time, the little cat jumping on the sofa beside me prompted yelps of pain and husband had to help me undress. Spent Friday night trying and mostly failing to find some way, any way of sitting/lying that reduced the pain from excruciating to clenched-jaw bearable. This after the application of painkillers, deep heat massage etc.
Saturday was more of the same. Staying bolt upright helped a bit but by now, anything more than shallow breathing prompted stabbing pain half way up my back on the left hand side, sharp enough to momentarily stop me breathing. Y'know, I was actually contemplating seeking medical advice. And wondering how I could have for eg broken a rib without noticing it.
Anyway, I fell asleep about 2.30 am Sunday, when the exhaustion finally outdid the pain. And woke up feeling better. As in improved, rather than fully restored. Crucially, the acute and specifically located pain was absent. So I spent the day moving around incredibly carefully and calling sons/husband when anything needed lifting/reaching, and all continued well.
As of this morning, my back is sore, in that the muscles that have spent the last few days knotted up are protesting mightily. I continue to move around cautiously. And am currently thinking I must have knocked something (rib? disc?) a bit out of alignment coming off my bike last week, which then got majorly tweaked on Thursday night. And that whatever it was has now returned to its proper place.
I think I may be giving aikido a miss this week. Discretion > valour and all that.
Work, happily, is entirely doable, given I have a proper typing chair, with lumbar support, a footstool and all that kindathing. Which is good coz I am having great fun writing the WH40K story.
Onward!
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