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Today I am grateful for a hot shower
I am grateful for breakfast muffins
I am grateful for the chance to lay in bed catching up with twitter before I have to be upright
I am grateful that I have been able to stick to the to do list I wrote up yesterday.
I spent most of yesterday sorting out what I needed to get done each day and working out how to use Evernote and then setting alarms in my phone to remind me.
I've just been drifting. I know this is mostly because I am in a flare and I can't get any decent fucking sleep but it's not getting better and life goes on. I need to get stuff done.
Also my posture has been driving me nuts. Part of it is having large boobs and the weight of them. Part of it is habit (partly due to be self conscious of the boobs truthfully). Part of it is the problems I have with my joints and other pains.
I know though a huge part is that the right muscles are not strong enough. My head sits too far forward. Always has really and mum's does too. It's causing a lot of pain in my neck. The muscles in my neck are always sore and swollen and I have so many trigger points in it. My stomach and lower back muscles aren't strong enough to hold me upright properly and as everything on my right side is bigger than my left I doubt my legs are the same length.
I have core exercises from the pain clinic that I really should be doing every day and I should get back to the sciatic stretches as the do help reduce the amount of nerve pain in my legs at night.
I'm fed up of dead hands and bits of my face going numb and nerve pain down my arms and headaches and migraines that come from the muscles at the base of my skull being too tight.
So I am working on my posture and I'm doing my core strengthening exercises along with the stretches I'm meant to be doing every day too.
So far it is difficult but then isn't it always when you start.
I'm not doing a lot. I can't. It causes too many problems with all my conditions.
I am having trouble though as a lot of the core exercises are done laying on the floor in some way and we have very little floor space at all. And what space we do have is taken up by dogs. When the cat is out I end up with him sat on me too *g*
But also I have fibro. It means I have more pain than normal, things that are read as pressure to most people register as pain and things that are painful to others are more so to me. It also means I have fibro tender points. This are on many bits of my body and even light pressure there is really painful. They are on the front of my knees, on my hips and lower back, on the outside of my upper arms. These all press on the floor and cause me huge amounts of pain.
The other issue is my joints. They move too far. I had to have a bunch of the stretches modified by the physio because they didn't do much as they were. I can reach past my toes, my knees bend past the point they should, my wrists and knees, shoulders and ankles all sublax regularly. I have to be careful sitting with one leg over the other or my legs tucked under me etc because the joint comes apart too far and then there is epic pain. For days.
To do the kneeling ones I hurt the bits in front of my knees and I have my (not inconsiderable) weight on my wrists. This is not good. The pain in my wrists and shoulders from having my weight on them is terrible. I'm sure they could get stronger if I keep it up and it would be wonderful if I could take my weight on my arms for longer for various other reasons. I'm sure Ruth would be happy if I could.
But yeah I have many issues that I'm not sure are going to go away even if I stick with these and keep going.
I will keep going with them for now. I may try bringing the thick fake mink blanket out and using that to cushion my fibro points from the floor. Not sure what to do about the dogs *g* Not really any where else for them to go. I don't mind too much unless Dougall comes and tried to lick my face >.<
Today I managed to get most of my stuff done. We took rubbish to the tip and picked up the mail. I did 45 mins of house work, washing up and cleaning the stove and all. Tomorrow it will be cleaning the lounge room and vacuuming the soot from the fire because I was breathing it in tonight as there is nowhere else for my head to go when doing stretches than the hearth rug.
I have edited photos and uploaded them. I have taken my pills when I should have. (I have also managed to be taking only one dose of codeine a day instead of 6. I ran out of panadeine and can't afford to keep buying it)
I remembered to have a shower early enough for my hair to dry before I went to bed.
Our new curtains. I bought them months and months ago at the Op Shop. It was one big curtain and it was $3 \o/ It's the right colour too as this place is yellow and dark blue. I unpicked all the pleats and the turn ups and then it sat for months doing nothing as I have no room for my sewing machine. We took it to Ruth's mum's place last time we went down though and it was cut and sewed up into to long curtains. So now our lounge and bedroom windows have thick, block out curtains. Which is good because although the house has fantastically thick walls the windows are old and don't fit properly and the bedroom one has a crack in it. Hopefully this should also stop the draught coming down the wall and under my computer desk freezing my knees.
The new mouse that matches Ruth's computer. She's wanted it since she got her laptop.
A dog went running along the road down the hill while he was eating grass and I don't know if he heard it or smelt it but he knew it was there.
OMG! Look at his eyelashes!
I would have laughed at this one if I didn't have the one with his tongue all the way out. He's eating grass. That's why he is sticking his tongue out.
I am grateful for breakfast muffins
I am grateful for the chance to lay in bed catching up with twitter before I have to be upright
I am grateful that I have been able to stick to the to do list I wrote up yesterday.
I spent most of yesterday sorting out what I needed to get done each day and working out how to use Evernote and then setting alarms in my phone to remind me.
I've just been drifting. I know this is mostly because I am in a flare and I can't get any decent fucking sleep but it's not getting better and life goes on. I need to get stuff done.
Also my posture has been driving me nuts. Part of it is having large boobs and the weight of them. Part of it is habit (partly due to be self conscious of the boobs truthfully). Part of it is the problems I have with my joints and other pains.
I know though a huge part is that the right muscles are not strong enough. My head sits too far forward. Always has really and mum's does too. It's causing a lot of pain in my neck. The muscles in my neck are always sore and swollen and I have so many trigger points in it. My stomach and lower back muscles aren't strong enough to hold me upright properly and as everything on my right side is bigger than my left I doubt my legs are the same length.
I have core exercises from the pain clinic that I really should be doing every day and I should get back to the sciatic stretches as the do help reduce the amount of nerve pain in my legs at night.
I'm fed up of dead hands and bits of my face going numb and nerve pain down my arms and headaches and migraines that come from the muscles at the base of my skull being too tight.
So I am working on my posture and I'm doing my core strengthening exercises along with the stretches I'm meant to be doing every day too.
So far it is difficult but then isn't it always when you start.
I'm not doing a lot. I can't. It causes too many problems with all my conditions.
I am having trouble though as a lot of the core exercises are done laying on the floor in some way and we have very little floor space at all. And what space we do have is taken up by dogs. When the cat is out I end up with him sat on me too *g*
But also I have fibro. It means I have more pain than normal, things that are read as pressure to most people register as pain and things that are painful to others are more so to me. It also means I have fibro tender points. This are on many bits of my body and even light pressure there is really painful. They are on the front of my knees, on my hips and lower back, on the outside of my upper arms. These all press on the floor and cause me huge amounts of pain.
The other issue is my joints. They move too far. I had to have a bunch of the stretches modified by the physio because they didn't do much as they were. I can reach past my toes, my knees bend past the point they should, my wrists and knees, shoulders and ankles all sublax regularly. I have to be careful sitting with one leg over the other or my legs tucked under me etc because the joint comes apart too far and then there is epic pain. For days.
To do the kneeling ones I hurt the bits in front of my knees and I have my (not inconsiderable) weight on my wrists. This is not good. The pain in my wrists and shoulders from having my weight on them is terrible. I'm sure they could get stronger if I keep it up and it would be wonderful if I could take my weight on my arms for longer for various other reasons. I'm sure Ruth would be happy if I could.
But yeah I have many issues that I'm not sure are going to go away even if I stick with these and keep going.
I will keep going with them for now. I may try bringing the thick fake mink blanket out and using that to cushion my fibro points from the floor. Not sure what to do about the dogs *g* Not really any where else for them to go. I don't mind too much unless Dougall comes and tried to lick my face >.<
Today I managed to get most of my stuff done. We took rubbish to the tip and picked up the mail. I did 45 mins of house work, washing up and cleaning the stove and all. Tomorrow it will be cleaning the lounge room and vacuuming the soot from the fire because I was breathing it in tonight as there is nowhere else for my head to go when doing stretches than the hearth rug.
I have edited photos and uploaded them. I have taken my pills when I should have. (I have also managed to be taking only one dose of codeine a day instead of 6. I ran out of panadeine and can't afford to keep buying it)
I remembered to have a shower early enough for my hair to dry before I went to bed.
Our new curtains. I bought them months and months ago at the Op Shop. It was one big curtain and it was $3 \o/ It's the right colour too as this place is yellow and dark blue. I unpicked all the pleats and the turn ups and then it sat for months doing nothing as I have no room for my sewing machine. We took it to Ruth's mum's place last time we went down though and it was cut and sewed up into to long curtains. So now our lounge and bedroom windows have thick, block out curtains. Which is good because although the house has fantastically thick walls the windows are old and don't fit properly and the bedroom one has a crack in it. Hopefully this should also stop the draught coming down the wall and under my computer desk freezing my knees.
The new mouse that matches Ruth's computer. She's wanted it since she got her laptop.
A dog went running along the road down the hill while he was eating grass and I don't know if he heard it or smelt it but he knew it was there.
OMG! Look at his eyelashes!
I would have laughed at this one if I didn't have the one with his tongue all the way out. He's eating grass. That's why he is sticking his tongue out.