I feel old today
By blog on May. 1, 2009.
I’m not that old, but I have done something rather nasty to my back, and as such, feel very, very, old.
I have no idea what I did to cause this injury; it is fairly recent so I know it has nothing to do with that car accident a little while back, but for the last few days I can’t take a big step, or pain. Can’t take a deep breath, or pain. Can’t get off the couch, or pain. Can’t get off my computer chair, or pain. I now have this funny little pillow stuffed into the small of my back so I am sitting here like a goosed cat, trying not to move for fear of… pain.
I don’t deal with this sort of ongoing pain all that well, to be honest. I feel entirely irritable and resent my body’s needs for food and bathroom facilities, because both of those things require me to move from the relative comfort I can find in sitting and not moving. Right now for instance, I am aware that I need to go out to the supermarket or I won’t be having dinner tonight… I’m really not looking forward to that trip. Hobbling around the supermarket, carrying anything over a five kilos, and putting away my groceries all sound like good ways of being in heightened pain for the next few hours.
So I don’t know how long I can expect to feel this sore, but I have to say, I am really, really, really, looking forward to not having back pain. I mean, is there anything else that can make you feel as elderly and fragile with as much ease as back pain? I really hate the mysterious pain too, as if your body is telling you it can’t really be bothered trying to hold itself together now, so really, your stuffed.
I can just imagine in the next few posts I am going to be complaining that my neighbours play their music too loud, that I can’t work my DVD player, that the bubbles in coke hurt my tongue, and that I have to cut the post short or I am will miss the early bird special.
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