Lying is not a sin. It’s a business plan.
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I hate when you're watching a movie on TV, and you have to jack up the volume to 50 to be able to hear it, and then a commercial comes on and the blast sets off the car alarm in the garage.
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I went up river this past week. I put a lot of heavy stuff in the van on Wednesday, small pieces of furniture and boxes of papers and books. I was a little worried about the effects on my back of wrestling it all out of the old house, but Thursday and Friday my back was fine. So Friday I made dozens of trips up and down stairs carrying loads of stuff. Friday evening my back went out. I am now wearing the brace off and on, and walking all twisted into a corkscrew.
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Daughter and Hercules have set up a measuring board in their kitchen. Heights of Mommy, Daddy, Gramma, and the Nugget are now marked on it.
For much of my early adult life I'd been 4' 11". A decade or two ago I went to 4' 10", and until yesterday that's what I always wrote on forms. I am now a hair under 4' 9". Under!
That's downright scary. I've lost more than two inches since my early 40s, and I've never had that many to spare. I think I've lost the latest inch just in the past two years, because suddenly things I had hemmed not all that long ago are too long. Slacks seem to be unaffected, but dresses and caftans are dragging on the ground, which would indicate I've got spinal compression in progress. (Yes, I do stand straight. I have to, to protect my back.)
This is not cool.
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There's not a single cloud in the sky today. A most incredible blue. A half-moon is visible directly opposite the sun. I wish I could enjoy it. Mostly I'm standing in a hot shower, the massage setting directed on my lower back, or lying on the floor.
It's weird, but if I consciously tell myself to relax my back, I can move easily and the pain lessens. As soon as I forget, it clenches up and hurts. I guess the medical community refers to that as guarding.
Relax, relax, relax.
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3 comments:
This seems to be a tough week on backs. Hope you feel better soon.
Yeah. How are you doing?
I'm wondering if this is the power of suggestion. I saw the fancy walker Wednesday, and decided not to bring it down here because "I haven't needed it in fifteen years". (And I'd need another for upstairs, anyway.) ...Next trip....
Walker?
I'm hanging in. Let's see how I do tomorrow when I go back to work. I'll try to take a stand-up break every hour or so.
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