I broke me

Every day, for very long stretches, I sit on my couch with one foot under the opposite (left) thigh or both feet up, cross legged. Yesterday afternoon I got up and ouch! My left hip, particularly, was pissed off.

By last night, my whole left side from my neck to my toes had a chronic case of tennis elbow. The pain of moving was some of the worst I have ever felt. The pain of not moving was a close second. Years of bad posture, particularly, bad sitting posture, hit me in the nerve endings.

It was very difficult to find a sleeping position that was not excruciating. The pain stabbed when I moved and then would calm down after a bit when I stopped. It was a wild ride. I did get some sleep and this morning it is way better. I'm not going to hire the hit man to come end it all like I planned last night. At least not yet.

I do need a harder seat than this couch. I have two options here in the living room. I need to try them both out. And then, when one of them works, rearrange the living room furniture. I have an idea.

Last night I toyed with the idea of getting one of those chairs that lift you out - the ones they make for old people. The good news is that they are just too ugly. Plus, I feel like that's a skill - getting up out of a chair - that I need to retain.

So, today's plans include not sitting in a way that jiggers up my spine and muscles and tendons and not doing much of anything else. I was going to go to the new Amazon Fresh store but I have enough of everything on my list to last until at least Monday so I'm going to hold off until it is a little less painful to move.

I have a Mariner game tomorrow so my goal is to be able to go to that. Oh and I do need to dig out one of the N-95 masks for the game. The smoke is upon us.

Biggie is eating his dry food in a celebratory "I won the battle of the cat food!!!" manner. A little pre-bird catching nosh.

I need a shower. I'm very grateful today for that big grab bar in the shower!

And then we have this

I opened the door and he chose not to use it so Biggie got him again. He's now in the trash. And my feather theory might be right after all. As he flew around the living room, he left MANY feathers everywhere. One little one is now stuck to the ceiling.

In other news. The hard chair is helping. Ice on hip is helping. Having to collect bird on carpet with plastic bag... not helping.

Oh! And when I scooched the couch over, I found one of the missing long handled grabbers and 4 ping pong balls.

So way better!!!

I can now pee sitting down without excruciating pain! I know this is TMI but I don't care. I'm so excited about the achievement. I thought I was going to have to get one of amw's pee standing up gadgets.

The blue chair is the answer. Also ibuprofen and ice and moving. Now my living room is a furniture mess and Biggie is so confused.

But I can get up from the chair and walk across the room without yelping in pain. I'll take it.

It's 90 degrees out and the air quality in downtown Seattle is 'unhealthy for sensitive groups'.

Inside, it's way much better.

I'm a hypocrite

There is no ice cream in this house. Anywhere. WTF? So tomorrow I'm going to have to go out. I heard an interesting report on the air quality here in Seattle. 1. If/when it is bad, that 'bad' is not something you can see, smell or taste - the tiny particles just go right to your lungs. and 2. The badest is in the mornings. I had never heard either of those two things before.

But, I don't have ice cream. Any at all.

So tomorrow morning, I'll go to the store. I'll slap on my N-95 and takes my chances.

Now, later on - say in a couple of days - when there's something that involves my going outside and I don't wanna? I will say it's because of the smoke. You just wait. I know it will happen.

This time last night I was in so much pain. More pain that I had ever felt in my life. Tonight, if I move a certain way, I can feel where the pain was but it's hardly painful at all now. I am so grateful for no pain. So grateful. That was a royal bitch. Whew.

The living room is all rearranged and I can no longer sit like I did. The chair is just not big enough.

We play Blue Jays right now!