What is pissing you off this time?

[DanaC]

heh. Aye, there's that :P


On a serious note, one of the best exercises for the back, supposedly, is a good walk. I walk all the fucking time. I walk every day, several times a day, probably amounting to a couple of hours in two or three chunks. Not counting the to-ing and fro-ing, I'm talking going for a walk. Always have. Even when I didn't have a dog (for a few years) I used to get my headphones on and fuck off for a long walk several times a week.

I think along with considering pilates, and various other attempts to sort out my back, I shold probably get my arse in gear and buy a new mattress. This one's fucked. It's been fucked for ages. I know it's a major factor. That and the computer chair, in which I spend far too much time to be putting up with the slight slant, and the slopy seat.

:p


[eta] oh yeah and, 'lift with the knees, not with the back' etc when removing two stone of puppy from the bath

[Griff]

Work is pissing me off. Non-union 2 class gig means 9 hours on site every day. No time to prep or write reports on kids progress that's all homework. Administration dumped a bunch of 3 year olds on me mid-year whose needs and behaviors don't fit the program, disrupting progress for Special Ed and Typical kids alike. It feels like a goddamn daycare. And I had to call DSS on a family, I hate hate hate to bring the law into someone's home, it violates my very core beliefs. But I'm a mandated reporter my ass is on the line when you don't care for your child.

[limey]

Originally Posted by DanaC

1) a new mattress.
2)the computer chair, in which I spend far too much time to be putting up with the slight slant, and the slopy seat.
3)'lift with the knees, not with the back'
:p

1) We bought a new mattress a month or two ago. SOO COMFY! Money SO WELL SPENT.
2) I use a kneeling chair - I've been lucky to find two in the local charity shop
3) uh-huh!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

...I shold probably get my arse in gear and buy a new mattress. This one's fucked. It's been fucked for ages. I know it's a major factor.

Then you'll be kicking your ass for not doing it sooner, like I did.
I used to work with a guy having back trouble, until the doctor told him to put a magazine under one cheek of his ass on his work chair. That did the trick, a chair just the thickness of a magazine out of whack, can screw you up.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Then you'll be kicking your ass for not doing it sooner, like I did.
I used to work with a guy having back trouble, until the doctor told him to put a magazine under one cheek of his ass on his work chair. That did the trick, a chair just the thickness of a magazine out of whack, can screw you up.

That could explain a lot in my case.

[monster]

Walking is only good if you have the correct posture and the core strength to maintain it throughout the walk

[Sundae]

My "present" when I was away from home last time (Glasgow?) was a new bed.
I resented it at the time, as it meant the 'rents poking around in my room and binning things without consent.

But OMG. My love affair with it is still palpable, especially when Diz wakes me up at say 04.53. Whaaa? Huuhhh? Oh, more sleepy time on supportive mattress, lovely [spray water in catface]

A good mattress is a thing of wonder.

[footfootfoot]

John Sarno -- Wrote the definitive book on healing back pain.


I know several people who have been cured permanently after reading this book and putting the doc's advice into practice.

[DanaC]

Oh ffs.

Skin's gone mental. Think it's infected again. It's exploded to about 75% coverage over the last 24 hours. Feel like a sausage that's about to burst it's skin.


[eta] I seem to have hit one of those periods of one-thing-after-another.

[glatt]

Does that mean your back is all better?

[limey]

That's just mean, Glatt. I was going to let that mattress lie for a while ...

[DanaC]

Nope, it doesn't. It just means I have bad back and bad skin:P

[monster]

my exercise gear got knocked into a coolbox full of water. Even my trainers are soaked. now I'll have to work out in.... I don't know what. maybe Hebe has some stinky sneakers I can steal......

[monster]

fefuxake. there's an exploded can of cherry cola in the basement. Don't even have time to deal. ttyl, monster fans. off to pull some godamn weeds. grrr. and work out. in my b-list gear.

[Jaydaan]

I go to physio 3 times a week right now, and on the 29 I get assessed for a rehab course. It is 2 weeks to 2 months long, and it teaches you how to treat your back nicely, as well as strengthen everything in order to get back to work. It includes gym work, walking, hiking, yoga and I 'm not sure what else. All I know is it is 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, and each day is something different.

As soon as we get back on our feet financially, I will get a new bed. (been a REALLY bad winter/spring: car broke down, dog died, hubby's knee surgery, fridge died, and now my washer died!!! ACK) Good news is hubby is back to work 3 days a week, and I am getting WCB, so my physio, pain meds, muscle relaxers and wages are being covered.

My other option is a rent to own programme. I know you pay 3 times as much, but I will be able to afford say $60 a month, and get a new bed now... instead of saving up the $1000 or more and suffering until I do come up this the $$$. I am starting to think the $2 a day is well worth it!