Managed to get almost nothing done today, other than scribbling a post for Writers Plain & Simple and recording a couple of videos for the online magazine-writing course.
This was one of those mornings when you wake up tired, for reasons unknown. Ever have those? Guess it must be the result of not sleeping well. Or something.
Fiddled with QuickTime all morning without even noticing the time pass — took some doing to figure out how to make a video of a PowerPoint presentation and get the audio to run with it. Looks pretty good, and now it should be fairly easy to cook up a few more how-to-do-it videos for that bunch.
Back hurting as usual, very annoying. Plus, equally annoying, sitting around fooling with QuickTime meant I never got around to the planned a.m. mile-long walk. Fat fat fat fat…. So I decided to combine an ad-hoc yoga session with the physical therapy exercises. Helped some but certainly didn’t effect a cure.
Along about 1:30, prepared a nice little meal: salmon with asparagus, dates, and corn tossed with red bell pepper (not bad), all cooked on the propane grill. Continued to diddle away the afternoon, again with modest results. Finally, along about 4:30 I could NOT hold my eyes open one. more. minute.
Stumbled off to bed, accompanied by dogs. Crapped out until dusk.
And now here’s the WEIRD part: when I woke up, the back pain was gone.
Completely, totally GONE!
That is weird, because normally any time spent inert on a bed freezes up the back and creates exuberant pain. So…wow! Several whole hours, pain-free!
Too good for words.
Out with the dogs: one mile, locked between one dog that tries to drag the human forward up the street and another that tries to drag it backward. That was fun.
Now to edit some copy in front of a Bones rerun.
🙂
Hmm…maybe that rest after the PT/yoga session really amplified the effects of it! Is the pain still gone today?