Making It Up As I Go Along #650

A week of haze for me.  I don’t do well with drugs generally.  Either my stomach takes a beating with them or I get very tired, or have a night of bad dreams.  Most drugs in my medicine cabinet get thrown out with best before dates long gone by.  With my back and hip taking me to the doctor, I’m prescribed a more lethal than off the shelf pain killer and a muscle relaxant.  And half of the week feels somewhat dream like to look back on.

By weeks end, I was doing better.  I assume I was getting used to the drugs.  But Tuesday and Wednesday were hard.  I had to keep double checking my own work as I went, just to make sure that I wasn’t performing some of it in a dream state.  

Even today, I almost never got on the blog because I was so dopey on the sofa with the TV on.  But I got more alert over the last hour or so… I guess drugs wearing off some… And so here I am.

That all said, the back is feeling pretty good now.  Most of my issues, feeling wise, is in my hip and shin.  And the doctor and physiotherapist both think those issues are coming from the back and inflammation there.  So I continue to take it easy.  Short, slow walks have been it.  From the office to the car in the lot, or to the cafeteria, or from the house to the mail box has been about as far as I’ve gone.  Further and my shin begins to ache while my hip burns.  

I’ve also set aside jobs around the house.  Vacuuming has been delayed, both yards are only half raked, from before my injury.  Old thatch grass just waiting to be raked away.  

But I’m hoping I can get things going soon.  The burn has been out of the hip for several days and I get little twitches in my shin… The type of twitching you feel when things are beginning to unwind and loosen up.

This all said, writing remains difficult for a second week in a row.  Half of the week was in a drugged haze.  And all the week has been very quiet with me either plugging away in the office or stretched out in the house.  Two sessions of Physio have been fairly uneventful as well, so I’m left with very little of interest to report.

Physio

Stretch

The bounds

Of tightened fibres

Pushing the rigid loose

With hopes of touching toes

Extend out and hold

Count to ten

Ease back

Relax