Hey!!!! Here’s something weird: the hip pain has slacked off SO DRAMATICALLY that it hardly hurts at all to walk around the Funny Farm!
Whaaaaaaa?????
Getting out of the bathtub? Didn’t feel like I’d better have the phone close at hand to call the paramedics.
Making the bed? Swift, tidy, and easy. And…uhm…most important: pain free!
WhatEVER would cause such a dramatic shift?
It still hurt when I rolled out of the sack this morning But after a couple of hours? The pain is gone!
Well: almost gone. About 95% pain-free…
Why? I can’t even imagine!
Within the hour, M’Hijto will show up at the door, eager to schlep me to the Mayo Clinic. We already had an appointment out there for a routine visit. He (and I) have figured we can inflict this hip injury on MayoDoc this morning.
But…noooooooo! Apparently NOT!
One can only hope, I suppose.
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It dawned on me this morning (nothing like dawn to brighten up a morning, eh???) that after I’d spent a day NOT sitting in my favorite overstuffed leather easy chair, the hip pain calmed down. WAY down.
??? WHY???
Only thing I could figure is that something in the upholstery is either not supporting the spine or is pushing my back into some unknown weird position.
So today I’ve been trying to avoid that fine brown throne.
Easier said than done: that is THE loafing chair for me, the centerpiece of the family room. Plopping myself down there is so habitual that I don’t even think HEY STUPID! GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!
But the room does host another mega-comfortable chair, one far nicer and fancier than the leather Crate & Barrel number. And that would be an amazing, sophisticated, you-want-Fancy-Dan? wooden rocker from Thos. Moser. It’s all wood, no squishy cushions. Dowels form the back support. Very, very handsome. Very, very pricey: a creature from the time when I had…you know…a job.
After perching in this chair for some fraction of an hour, I can get up with almost no pain. And I’ll tellya: that feels like some kinda miracle!
Here’s my son at the door…in a rage, for reasons unknown. And so…awaaaayyyy!