I slept alright last night, except for the sound out in the alley through nearby open windows of neighbors fucking from about 2am to 3am. But I have earplugs and finally used them. I lay there fantasizing about what I would scream out the window if I were that type of person. “ARE YOU DONE YET??” was one.
I got up this morning feeling great except hey guess what, my left sit bone hurts as usual. I’ve been limping around. Going to try some yoga shortly. Then I will clean my incredibly cluttery room. I’ve neglected it for over two weeks now.
I wish it was raining outside so I wouldn’t want to go out so bad. But no, it’s perfect and sunny and 80. I want to go out and run around all day, but I’m in too much pain. I hate this shit! Why won’t my leg just be normal again. The acupuncturist said to be patient, that it takes a long time. Yesterday it seemed to be getting better, but now I don’t know. I will try physical therapy next. I have this horrible vision of myself in Tokyo unable to do anything but lay in the hotel or hobble around in short spurts, totally missing out on the trip of a lifetime. If that happens, I will seriously cry.
This is the most frustrated I have been in awhile. I WANT to be active. I WANT to exercise, train, do yoga. Can’t really do any of it. I can barely sit down in a chair. I can’t sit down in the bus or the train. I am terrified of that ten-hour flight to Japan, and how I will not be able to get comfortable and I will not be able to sleep. The pain is going to be epic. My leg is so fucked up, and I really still don’t know what’s wrong with it, except something to do with muscles, nerves, and repetitive stress injury. Because my legs are shorter than everyone else’s, and the world’s furniture is made for tall people.
ARGH. Okay, now that I vented that, I will try to be more positive. But it’s really hard. My daily life is no longer normal, no longer what it was.
hip pain
Are you taking any anti-inflammatorys (Advil, Vioxx)? How about Ice and heat? I’ve been knitting like crazy to make a jacket and camisole for Easter, as a result I’m getting tendinitis in my LEFT triceps from the repetitive motion (I pick), but I’m almost finished with the jacket, and worse case scenario, I buy a camisole in a shade of pink and make the other later. Why do I do these things to myself? Take care of yourself. Love, Mom
I’ll bet that you can parlay your leg injury and or your recent engagement into getting bumped into first class or at the very least bulkhead seats. I was able to get a free upgrade for the tokyo-taipei legs of my trip because they forgot my veggie meals on the chicago-tokyo flight. Try to get something from your doctor about your leg and talk really sweetly to the ladies doing the check-in/gate stuff. They control EVERYTHING.
Chiropractor?
I’m a new visitor, and you might have answered this already…but have you tried treating your hip pain with chiropractice?
I had a pelvis problem where it felt like my pelvis was constantly tipping forward, and was very painful. After 3 weeks with the chiropractor, it was gone. X-rays clearly showed that the two halves of my pelvis were torqued in relation to each other, and it’s now been fixed well enough to allow me to work on a computer for 8 hours a day again. 🙂
Just a thought!