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Pain, and the 1st day of Christmas
My true love gave to me: a partridge in a pear tree.
I'm in a lot of pain right now. Monday afternoon we were sent home from work due to heavy snowfall, which continued through Tuesday morning. On Tuesday work was cancelled, and Forest and I spent a LONG time shovelling our drive and sidewalks. Correction; HE spent a lot of time. I tried, but somehow screwed up my back, and ended up on the couch with a heating pad for the rest of the day. I couldn't walk. It was awful.
This morning I could barely make it out of bed. I hobbled out the door and drove myself to work in utter agony, and here I sit, miserable, irritable, and about ready to call a chiropractor for the first time in my life. I called my doctor, who wasn't in, but his nurse practicioner was happy to send in a prescription that will surely knock me out for a couple of days. Great.
Luckily, taekwondo last night was cancelled due to the weather, so I didn't miss my test or anything like that. I just miss being able to put on my own shoes and get out of a chair without assistance. I also liked to climb stairs and cross my legs, and sleep comfortably at night.
Those were the days.
Anyhow, despite my own personal agony, the time off from work was rather nice for Forest and I. We spent most of it cooped up in our house with nothing to do and no one to bother us, which was just what we needed after a long weekend of stress. We chilled out in a big way, and other than shovelling, we didn't do anything more than was absolutely required of us. When we felt up to it, we got together with Dave for dinner at the Texas Roadhouse, and then went home early to crash. It was positively lovely.
Well, except for the part where it took me about 15 minutes to lower myself painfully into the bed.
It really sucks. I can't sit comfortably, and can't lie comfortably, either, and certainly standing up is out, since it causes shooting pain. Today is worse than yesterday, but I think that's because I'm not sitting on a heating pad all day long.
Forest was in a cheerful mood today, I'm happy to report, having rested and recuperated and reduced his overall level of stress by quite a lot. I'm happy that he's happier. He has been very affectionate in the past couple of days, and I love him very much, for all he is worried about me.
Now I'm sick of typing, and I'm going to go to the pharmacy and pick up whatever it is that my nurse practicioner thinks will do me a world of good. And I think I'll ask Kris for the phone number of her chiropractor. I can't wait for this to fix itself over a period of months. I have a bell concert on Friday, and work in the meantime, and Christmas shopping still to do, and a tree to erect, and lights to hang, and, and, and... you get the picture.
Blech.
