7 Days: Day 1 – Freshly rubbed

20 March 2010

My back and hips have been giving me trouble in recent months and I’ve had a couple of physiotherapy appointments. I’ve also been referred to a consultant, whom I’ll see next month. Getting a little numbness in your legs is, after all, not what one aims for. It looks like it might be my achondroplasia having a new laugh with me, adding in the joy of spinal stenosis – compression of the spinal cord. Yippee!

I’m certainly more screwed up than usual. While walking about for an hour would always be sure to make my hips hurt, they now hurt much more easily and I get backache that was never previously a problem.

I’ve been given an exercise to do, but I have to admit I’m not doing it as much as I need to. I have to lie flat on my back and tilt my pelvis, pressing the bottom of my back into the floor, but I can’t do it with my trousers on because of the waistband – and whipping my trousers off three times a day while I’m trying to work in the office isn’t so easy. But I must persist.

Aside from the exercise and getting medical help I need to also follow through on my eternal intention to get more massages. The one I had today was a “de-stress” massage: head, neck, face, shoulders and back. It was wonderful – even if it did leave me with this tangled mess of oily hair you see above – and I must make sure to book another appointment soon. As the therapist was working I could feel some real knots that need undoing.

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3 Responses to “7 Days: Day 1 – Freshly rubbed”

Lula
21st March 2010 @ 12:47 pm

Girl, you lookin’ all SEXAY in that shot! Sorry to hear about your aches and pains, though. More massages seem to be a good plan, along with whipping off your trousers 3 times a day in the office. If I had a valid reason to do that, don’t think for a minute that I wouldn’t…

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Thursday
21st March 2010 @ 7:10 pm

Ooh, keep at the exercises and with the massages. Sounds like you need to wear loose jammies all day. This is such a great picture, I absolutely adore it.

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kirsty
21st March 2010 @ 10:38 pm

Thursday is on the $$. If ever there was a great excuse to wear jammie pants all day…
Cool pic!

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