Spinal Slap
Aug. 21st, 2024 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisIf I exercise, it will be in the mornings. First thing. The rest of the day is then devoted to being a slug. If I have exercised, a guiltless slug. I sit on the couch. I get up and down but usually to go get something to drink or feed the cats. I do walk to lunch and then maybe to get the mail and maybe to get dinner but mostly I sit.
And my sitting posture is ridiculous. I either sit cross legged - which isn't too bad - or some combo of one leg out and one tucked under. And I sit for hours at a time that way. When I get up, it takes a fair amount of time to get feeling back into my feet. And, after days and days of doing this, now there is a spot on my back just above my right butt cheek that is horribly painful. This has happened before. Once I woke up and was too broken to move for nearly two days.
So... today is a new day. I can realign the couch so that where I sit is way less conducive to crinkling up my spine. Or I can sit on the other end of the couch - same result. And I need to get up at least once an hour, minimum. I swam long and hard today. It's really just a matter of paying attention to my spine. And that starts today.
Our weather is my reward. My weather app says we will not see 80 again until a week from Thursday and then low 80's for 2 days. Saturday, our high will be 58! in August! If I didn't live here, I'd move here in a skinny minute.
Today I have the phone call with my new (I hope) financial advisor at noon and then the Food and Beverage committee meeting at 1:30.
The Mariners are desperately searching for rock bottom and, I fear, are not that close. I tuned in last night just as they were beginning to relinquish their early lead. I turned it off and, sure enough, they gave up the ghost soon after and lost... again.
shelf!
And my sitting posture is ridiculous. I either sit cross legged - which isn't too bad - or some combo of one leg out and one tucked under. And I sit for hours at a time that way. When I get up, it takes a fair amount of time to get feeling back into my feet. And, after days and days of doing this, now there is a spot on my back just above my right butt cheek that is horribly painful. This has happened before. Once I woke up and was too broken to move for nearly two days.
So... today is a new day. I can realign the couch so that where I sit is way less conducive to crinkling up my spine. Or I can sit on the other end of the couch - same result. And I need to get up at least once an hour, minimum. I swam long and hard today. It's really just a matter of paying attention to my spine. And that starts today.
Our weather is my reward. My weather app says we will not see 80 again until a week from Thursday and then low 80's for 2 days. Saturday, our high will be 58! in August! If I didn't live here, I'd move here in a skinny minute.
Today I have the phone call with my new (I hope) financial advisor at noon and then the Food and Beverage committee meeting at 1:30.
The Mariners are desperately searching for rock bottom and, I fear, are not that close. I tuned in last night just as they were beginning to relinquish their early lead. I turned it off and, sure enough, they gave up the ghost soon after and lost... again.
shelf!
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