Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 33 - Fistful of zzzzz's

Learning to sleep on my side, after 40 plus years of sleeping on my stomach is proving a challenge. I am waking up multiple times a night and only really deeply sleeping for the first 3 hours or so when I am so tired that my need to sleep outweighs any discomfort I feel.


It's like being on a never ending international flight where I cannot get comfortable and hence, cannot sleep. I am sure I will adjust in time - I have to since the continued health of my back depends on it - but right now the impaired sleep is playing havoc with my ability to concentrate at work, focus on what needs doing generally in my life, and relax.


I can only pray my body eventually adjusts and all is sweet.


I will take any opportunity to use cat pictures to illustrate a blog and today is no exception....

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 32 -

I have a new office chair.


It's ergonomic supports my back and my wonderful boss got it for me without me even asking.


My back loves it and thanks her.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 30 -

Home again with my back giving me grief. Sigh...

I did manage to do some work from home for about 3 hours so caught up on some of the backlog which was a relief.

Spent the rest of the day flat on my back which included a nap and watching the rest of Community season 2 which ended with the best two part paintball finale EVER.

I am looking forward to ending the enforced incarceration in my apartment (apart from physic I haven't left the place in six days) and returning to civilisation tomorrow.

Community gets their paintball on!

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 25 -

I cannot move.


I seriously cannot move.


I have had a sore lower back before and it's been painful especially when the spasms hit. But this is the first time I haven't been able to move, when even walking has triggered spasms. When realising that getting something from across the room, or even simply getting up is going to result in a whole works of pain.


It's demoralising. I have worked long and hard to eat right and exercise and my body keeps deteriorating. I know we all joke about getting older but this isn't funny. It's extraordinarily painful. I have lost my car and now I cannot even move around and do what I want to do.


It's been an awful painful nasty day.


I can only hope the Physio will have some effect at 2pm. (Aly, the office manager, is a absolute delight. So warm and friendly so I have high hopes just based on how lovely she is.)

P.S. Waz ended up driving me, the physio, Brett of Erko Physio was awesomely good but my back was so bad (I spasmed multiple times getting on and off the table) that he did some work to alleviate the pain but sent me home to do nothing but either lie down or sit in a high backed dining room chair.


No bending, twisting, reaching, anything. Oh what fun!