A Catalog of ills...
I think there comes a point with your body where it's all so ongoing that the next thing is: shrug.
Last night was a particular kind of awesome. The ongoing back pain, you know that I murmured about in May and while going to see a Chiro is helping, still leads to days with 10 level pain two or three times a week and the rest of it at a dull 5 or 6 (on a scale of 1-10). There is actually some legit stuff going on in my x-rays, a culmination of what must now be three years of sedentary life after the extremes of the undiagnosed diabetes, the med-related agoraphobia, the lack of paid employment (which is not actually the bad thing, just been working on Mary Molly Crafts. ). I have a 5mm tilt in my pelvis, one of my lower vertebrae is tilted in the wrong direction to be compensating (it's the one that pinches and leads to my back feeling like I have a dagger stuck in it - maybe a site of death in a previous life, who knows) and my neck, where the rest of you have curves is completely straight up and down.
It's actually not something I'm complaining about, it's more a huh, I can only get a third of what I want to do in a given day done. There's not as much sleeping and I'm no where near as anxious as I was a couple of months ago when I thought it would be all over quickly. Now, I think it's classified as chronic. I have days where I'm frustrated and can't concentrate but mostly I'm pretty upbeat and keep powering on (and boy have I learned in the last few years that persistence is one of my key strengths). I actually think that it's ok that it's happening now at this stage of my new business because I'm getting time to make decisions and to work the R&D phase as long as it needs to. I would hate for it to be happening when I need to be moving around and going to markets and all those kinds of things.
So, my back is overwhelming at times, and it's why I've been rather sparse on social networks cause I can read fanfic, and do my challenges at the Landcomms and write tutorial guides and learn to use a die cut machine but I'm limited.
Oh, and last night, the lovely thing at which I'm just shrugging, I got ear balance problems, then dizziness and inability to walk, followed by nausea and the spewing my stomach out. I swear it's the weirdess illness/food poisoning?/who knows I've ever had and all I can think is, gee my back's a bit sore this morning, do your exercises, sit up straighter, take the puppy for a walk, eat lightly (even though I'm starving) and hey, another day closer to feeling ok, right?
But my bright news is that I'm getting closer and closer to products on shelves for my craft-kit business, Mary Molly Crafts. Most of my talking about it, for now, is happening on the facebook page but there will also be a mailing list and web page. And hey if you guys want me to talk more about it here, comment, and I'll let you know what I'm up to *grin*
Last night was a particular kind of awesome. The ongoing back pain, you know that I murmured about in May and while going to see a Chiro is helping, still leads to days with 10 level pain two or three times a week and the rest of it at a dull 5 or 6 (on a scale of 1-10). There is actually some legit stuff going on in my x-rays, a culmination of what must now be three years of sedentary life after the extremes of the undiagnosed diabetes, the med-related agoraphobia, the lack of paid employment (which is not actually the bad thing, just been working on Mary Molly Crafts. ). I have a 5mm tilt in my pelvis, one of my lower vertebrae is tilted in the wrong direction to be compensating (it's the one that pinches and leads to my back feeling like I have a dagger stuck in it - maybe a site of death in a previous life, who knows) and my neck, where the rest of you have curves is completely straight up and down.
It's actually not something I'm complaining about, it's more a huh, I can only get a third of what I want to do in a given day done. There's not as much sleeping and I'm no where near as anxious as I was a couple of months ago when I thought it would be all over quickly. Now, I think it's classified as chronic. I have days where I'm frustrated and can't concentrate but mostly I'm pretty upbeat and keep powering on (and boy have I learned in the last few years that persistence is one of my key strengths). I actually think that it's ok that it's happening now at this stage of my new business because I'm getting time to make decisions and to work the R&D phase as long as it needs to. I would hate for it to be happening when I need to be moving around and going to markets and all those kinds of things.
So, my back is overwhelming at times, and it's why I've been rather sparse on social networks cause I can read fanfic, and do my challenges at the Landcomms and write tutorial guides and learn to use a die cut machine but I'm limited.
Oh, and last night, the lovely thing at which I'm just shrugging, I got ear balance problems, then dizziness and inability to walk, followed by nausea and the spewing my stomach out. I swear it's the weirdess illness/food poisoning?/who knows I've ever had and all I can think is, gee my back's a bit sore this morning, do your exercises, sit up straighter, take the puppy for a walk, eat lightly (even though I'm starving) and hey, another day closer to feeling ok, right?
But my bright news is that I'm getting closer and closer to products on shelves for my craft-kit business, Mary Molly Crafts. Most of my talking about it, for now, is happening on the facebook page but there will also be a mailing list and web page. And hey if you guys want me to talk more about it here, comment, and I'll let you know what I'm up to *grin*