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| Another red maple |
Almost all these pretty maple leaves are gone, since we have had days and days of rain and wind, with little letup. This picture was taken last week when we had a few hours of sunshine. And then the rain returned, and it hasn't left yet. Oh weil, it's the reason we are not inundated with massive numbers of new residents. No place seems to have everything just right all the time, does it? I'm happy with where we are living, and hope we can remain for as long as we need it.
A few days ago, I was minding my own business and turned in such a manner that I managed to do what we used to call "throw my back out." Just like that, for no reason I could recall, it started to hurt in a familiar spot in my lower back. Last winter, you might remember, I took a flying airborne leap when I slipped on the ice and landed on my back. I was laid up for days, if not weeks, but eventually it got better. This is in the same general area, the sacroiliac joint, and nothing I did this time seemed to make it stop hurting. It wasn't enough to take any medication, but I did stop my usual exercises. The Tibetan Rites, which I do every moorning, had to be modified just to be able to finish them. If you don't remember what they are, here's a little reminder. Most of the time I have no trouble doing them. For the first time in days, I am able to spend several hours without any residual pain. But if I arch my back to feel the spot, yep, it's still there.
I don't know for sure if the pain is serious, or if will get better on its own, or if it will join those little annoying body parts that continue to hurt and eventually force me to change or modify my routine. It's one of the side effects of aging, I suspect, that all of us who are fortunate to reach our eighties need to learn to embrace. Getting older happens, if we are one of the lucky ones. I have learned that keeping moving is important to retaining my mobility. When I first climb out of bed in the morning, I realize that my small initial steps are similar to those of a toddler. My confidence grows as I continue to take up my usual morning routine, and my steps become more like a normal elder takes. Life is quite an adventure, isn't it?
Hope you have a good week, and that you find some way to measure your continuing progress towards health and happiness. That's what I'm doing, too!
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My back has me off my little exercises lately. It takes less to 'put it out' and longer 'to get it back'.
ReplyDeleteConcentrate on those red maple leaves to take away the hurts and worries. You never know when anything could be serious, I hope this ache goes away.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, DJan, I'm so sorry you're going through this. I find things are rather falling apart for me too. I've been the the throes of vertigo for a month now. Please take good care of yourself.
ReplyDeleteWhen studying massage therapy many years ago, one of our chiropractor instructors said "at least half our patients come to us because they don't stretch enough. Notice that all animals and babies stretch before moving after being still for a while." And if you watch babies and animals, you see they don't stretch suddenly or too fast - just gently but thoroughly stretch. So - try slow stretching after sitting or lying down and see if that might help you. This is advice I've given to many of my customers over the last nearly 35 years.
ReplyDeleteIf it isn’t one thing it is another! Aging is not for sissies. Hope you find something that helps .
ReplyDeleteMovement is an important part of health to be sure. I hope you feel a complete recovery soon, Jan.
ReplyDelete"It's one of the side effects of aging, I suspect, that all of us who are fortunate to reach our eighties need to learn to embrace"... I agree, DJan. And I also take very careful steps when getting out of bed in the morning... as you said, "like a toddler"... until I'm sure my back is OK. Yes, "life is an adventure" (and not fear, but caution is needed).
ReplyDeleteReading your life's story, I'm thinking the 80s will be the decade of slowing and living one day at a time. No big plans except to get up and go through the day, moving as much as possible. You are so right about movement. If you stop, then you STOP, and we don't want that to happen.
ReplyDeleteI guess that as an aging female, you are "normal." Take note: You are not alone. Perhaps, you should use a walker as David and I do. It truly helps us.
ReplyDeleteThe red maples are my favorites in the fall. That is a gorgeous one...or was, most likely by now.
ReplyDeleteI turn the wrong way sometimes, but it is my knees I will put out or my hips--lol! It's always something, as Gilda would say. ;)
Ever since I had a course of severe sacroiliac pain, it will once again just act up out of the blue. Fortunately it also goes away pretty fast. It's just one of the little tweaks that come from Spinal issues and hip replacements. But I'm still moving!
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