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canyonwalkerI've been taking it easy this weekend. I kind of need it after traveling overseas the previous three weekends. And I'll be traveling the next two weekends, too. Thus any thoughts I had a few days ago of, "Hey's let's drive out to ___ for a night or two this weekend!" were quickly dismissed.
I thought we might go hiking locally this weekend. Among the ideas we had was driving up to Sierra Vista Open Space, about 45 minutes away. That and other ideas fell by the wayside, though, as I was just too tired out to bother. Oh, and I'm in pain.
The pain is a back ache and, oddly, pain/weakness in my right arm. I've been dealing with them for a solid week now. At first I thought the backache was a muscular thing since it came at the tail end of the New Zealand trip, when I'd been popping ibuprofen on the regular from due to all the hiking. But that medicine didn't alleviate the pain, and the pain was joined by the thing in my arm, which also wasn't responsive to ibuprofen. Thus I concluded they were from a pinched nerve.
The backache has made it hard to sit for extended periods of time. Though oddly I only feel the pain when I stand up afterwards. And the arm pain has been accompanied by weakness. A few days ago I couldn't lift more than a few pounds without a bolt of pain. I've been dosing these pains all week now with acetaminophen. Thankfully they're slowly getting better. But they're not gone yet.
One "I did a thing!" task I set out to do today was clean the patio. The weather's getting nice enough that we'll want to sit outside more regularly. My inlaws are visiting in a few weeks, and it'll be nice to have the patio set up when they're here. And today is the last weekend day I'll have before then. So....
It's not that the patio was in terrible shape. We've got those dratted weeds growing out of the air vents on the far side, and quite a bit of dried leaves and other debris on the near side. I set to sweeping while Hawk grabbed gardening shears to deal with the weeds.
I thought I'd be okay in terms of pain with this modest task. Alas, I wasn't. Even just sweeping hurt my back enough that I had to stop and rest a few times, wincing at the pain. Thus we decided not to scrub the concrete. It doesn't look as dirty in real life as in these photos, anyway.
The sweeping tweaked my back enough that I wanted to lie down for a while afterward. Then we went grocery shopping. When we got back we had an early dinner— on the freshly cleaned patio.
I thought we might go hiking locally this weekend. Among the ideas we had was driving up to Sierra Vista Open Space, about 45 minutes away. That and other ideas fell by the wayside, though, as I was just too tired out to bother. Oh, and I'm in pain.
The pain is a back ache and, oddly, pain/weakness in my right arm. I've been dealing with them for a solid week now. At first I thought the backache was a muscular thing since it came at the tail end of the New Zealand trip, when I'd been popping ibuprofen on the regular from due to all the hiking. But that medicine didn't alleviate the pain, and the pain was joined by the thing in my arm, which also wasn't responsive to ibuprofen. Thus I concluded they were from a pinched nerve.
The backache has made it hard to sit for extended periods of time. Though oddly I only feel the pain when I stand up afterwards. And the arm pain has been accompanied by weakness. A few days ago I couldn't lift more than a few pounds without a bolt of pain. I've been dosing these pains all week now with acetaminophen. Thankfully they're slowly getting better. But they're not gone yet.
One "I did a thing!" task I set out to do today was clean the patio. The weather's getting nice enough that we'll want to sit outside more regularly. My inlaws are visiting in a few weeks, and it'll be nice to have the patio set up when they're here. And today is the last weekend day I'll have before then. So....
It's not that the patio was in terrible shape. We've got those dratted weeds growing out of the air vents on the far side, and quite a bit of dried leaves and other debris on the near side. I set to sweeping while Hawk grabbed gardening shears to deal with the weeds.
I thought I'd be okay in terms of pain with this modest task. Alas, I wasn't. Even just sweeping hurt my back enough that I had to stop and rest a few times, wincing at the pain. Thus we decided not to scrub the concrete. It doesn't look as dirty in real life as in these photos, anyway.
The sweeping tweaked my back enough that I wanted to lie down for a while afterward. Then we went grocery shopping. When we got back we had an early dinner— on the freshly cleaned patio.
