Breathing & Sherlock
There is much good to be said for being able to breathe without pain. Starting on the drive down to my mom's last Tuesday I got a pain in my chest...not heart-attack kind of pain, but more pulled muscle or pleurisy type pain. Not all the time, but consistent enough that I was taking little huffing breaths rather than the nice deep expand your chest and actually oxygenate some blood and feed your brain breaths. There were some contortions I could get into where I COULD take deep breaths, (like a cat arching it's back) but mostly I made do with those stuttering ones that were extremely painful like someone was knifing me through my left boob. Unpleasant to say the least.
Like an idiot, I toughed it out and didn't take any super-duper painpills that I carry religiously in case my back flares up. And by Saturday it was feeling better. Still stabbing pain, but I could breathe pretty much normally most of the time. Today I am enjoying being able to yawn and stretch and take deep breaths without pain, YAY!!! Which is a good thing because my mom and I hauled a mountain of tree limbs into the front yard for Jim to chop up for firewood for this winter :-) Also, I have an MRI and Sleep Test scheduled for next week and I wasn't looking forward to rescheduling either of them since I was not able to lay on my back.
Watching BBC's Sherlock is a blast!!! Mom and I have had fun with our "Hey, I was there's" as Sherlock and John solve cases in greater London.
Like an idiot, I toughed it out and didn't take any super-duper painpills that I carry religiously in case my back flares up. And by Saturday it was feeling better. Still stabbing pain, but I could breathe pretty much normally most of the time. Today I am enjoying being able to yawn and stretch and take deep breaths without pain, YAY!!! Which is a good thing because my mom and I hauled a mountain of tree limbs into the front yard for Jim to chop up for firewood for this winter :-) Also, I have an MRI and Sleep Test scheduled for next week and I wasn't looking forward to rescheduling either of them since I was not able to lay on my back.
Watching BBC's Sherlock is a blast!!! Mom and I have had fun with our "Hey, I was there's" as Sherlock and John solve cases in greater London.