Birthday Month 2023 August 6: oh, silly body, ow!

[elisem]

Apparently I did something to inconvenience my back yesterday. It was hurting when I woke up, and hurting more throughout the day.

It's slowing me down, but I do have hopes of carrying the clean sheets up from the dryer, and also getting to the workbench.

(Edited to add: My back doesn't get upset with me like this very often, which is probably why I don't remember to try the Chirp wheels on it. I used the medium one and then the smallest one, rolling over them and working on relaxing my back and letting it drape over the wheel in an arch. One or two times with each wheel, and the pain is remarkably lessened. It may start up again later, but the temporary relief is a big help, and I think it usually doesn't hurt as much even if it starts up again later. Those things are freakin' magic as far as I am concerned.)

(Edited later to add: it did start up again. I hope it eases off while I sleep.)

(Edited even later to add: well, it did not ease off, so I stood up to get a glass of water and it hurt a lot less when I was standing than it had when I was lying down, and sitting seemed better too, so I have been up for a while longer and all my eBay buyers have gotten their invoices now, which they will be happy about. It's tempting to go up to the workbench and just work for a while, but although it is the cool of the night, the AQI isn't really good enough for me to open the windows and circulate air and bring the temperature down. I will have Extreme Filtering up there soon, which should solve a lot of problems, but I have not yet remembered to order the filters. And now I'm actually feeling a little sleepy, so I'm going to aim for bed and sleep. Tomorrow will involve the packing of many boxes and the photographing of many new pieces for Etsy with markdowns on older work to match. Fingers crossed for cooperative body stuff.)


Is something slowing you down today, with or without ouch?

(Edited to add: And is there something that helps, even a little?)

Edited again to add: And are you up in the middle of your night too?)

Comments

[ladythmpr]

Indeed, I am unfortunately up in the middle of my night. A series of unfortunate circumstances, and a nightmare that leaves me unwilling to sleep again, though I expect to do so anyway at some point

[shewhostaples]

I was! (Four week old baby will do that...) But it looks like our middles of the night don't coincide.

[redbird]

I fell around 3 a.m. last night when I got up to go to the bathroom, and think that's part of why my foot is hurting this morning. And I woke up at least once more before it was sufficiently day for me to want to get up.

The good news is that yes I landed partly on a scab, but there's no visible change there, and it hurt less than when I touched the same spot when the scab/injury was newer. But slow steps, and thinking carefully about where it makes sense for me to go right now, versus waiting or asking cattitude or adrian_turtle to run an errand for me.

[elisem]

I send you good wishes for good sleep, and hopes that the circumstances have shifted to more fortunate.

[elisem]

It's the middle of my night again, in Minneapolis. I am waving. How far is your night from mine?

[elisem]

slow steps, and thinking carefully about where it makes sense for me to go right now, versus waiting or asking cattitude or adrian_turtle to run an errand for me

Prudence, yeah.

I hope your foot hurts less now.

[anef]

My back is bad today, I feel your pain (well, I feel mine which is bad enough!). It seems to happen when I sleep late, but as I suffer from insomnia it's hard to balance the not enough sleep with too much. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow.

[elisem]

Oh, the sleep/pain connections seem so myriad and such mysteries sometimes. When I am short of sleep, pain shows up so much more easily, and somehow more vividly.

I hope yours has improved.

[shewhostaples]

*waves back* I'm on British Summer Time. It's half past four and I think it's worth trying for bed now...