The Pros and Cons of HitchHiking
Apr. 2nd, 2013 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanSo I have this stupidly long list of things I'm not supposed to eat. I'm lactose intolerant and I'm allergic to the stuff that they use to process wheat flour and if I eat meat & fish & beer they aggravate the gout, and too much fat is supposed to be bad for me because I don't have a gallbladder and on and on and bloody on. And it is just so much of a freaking pain that sometimes I just say fuck this shit and I go eat a bacon cheese burger on a white bun with a bunch of fries and a six-pack.
Twice.
A day.
For a week.
And then I'm all like ow, what the hell was I thinking.
Well OK, I'm not that bad, but there are some times when I really push my luck. Apparently in March I had one or two of those times because holy shit was the arthritis kicking me hard for the last couple of weeks. I'm feeling a lot more normal today thank funk, because I don't think I could handle another week of almost no sleep. And of course just like I always do I am vowing that I Will Never Make That Mistake Again.
So yeah. That happened.
On the plus side, by the second week of driving me bonkers it did get me off my ass to make an appointment with a physiotherapist. I've been thinking about doing that for a while. My attempts to get my back into normal function have been traditionally marked by the ever popular three-steps-forward, two-steps-back kind of progress - when I'm making progress at all. Yoga and pilates help enormously, but I suck at keeping at it on my own, especially if I'm feeling a lot of pain. And classes are right out unless I lie to the instructors about having back problems because they don't want the liability if something goes sproing in their classroom.
Well it so happens that somebody on Faceplace linked to a page belonging to a new back clinic opening in Toronto. Besides having phsyiotherapists and massage therapists on staff it also has yoga classes which are specifically designed for people with back problems. It sounds like a great idea in principle, so I went in today to see the physiotherapist and get assessed for the yoga classes. I left an hour later with some homework and the very happy-making news that there doesn't appear to be any nerve impingement or serious joint damage. I start a class next week that I am told will include specific modifications for my back issues.
I'm hoping this is all going to be covered by insurance. But even if it isn't I'm going to scrounge up the money anyway. I'm tired of not being able to do anything without screwing my back up repeatedly, so this seems like a good way to get started on fixing it.
Now if I can just stay off the meat.
Twice.
A day.
For a week.
And then I'm all like ow, what the hell was I thinking.
Well OK, I'm not that bad, but there are some times when I really push my luck. Apparently in March I had one or two of those times because holy shit was the arthritis kicking me hard for the last couple of weeks. I'm feeling a lot more normal today thank funk, because I don't think I could handle another week of almost no sleep. And of course just like I always do I am vowing that I Will Never Make That Mistake Again.
So yeah. That happened.
On the plus side, by the second week of driving me bonkers it did get me off my ass to make an appointment with a physiotherapist. I've been thinking about doing that for a while. My attempts to get my back into normal function have been traditionally marked by the ever popular three-steps-forward, two-steps-back kind of progress - when I'm making progress at all. Yoga and pilates help enormously, but I suck at keeping at it on my own, especially if I'm feeling a lot of pain. And classes are right out unless I lie to the instructors about having back problems because they don't want the liability if something goes sproing in their classroom.
Well it so happens that somebody on Faceplace linked to a page belonging to a new back clinic opening in Toronto. Besides having phsyiotherapists and massage therapists on staff it also has yoga classes which are specifically designed for people with back problems. It sounds like a great idea in principle, so I went in today to see the physiotherapist and get assessed for the yoga classes. I left an hour later with some homework and the very happy-making news that there doesn't appear to be any nerve impingement or serious joint damage. I start a class next week that I am told will include specific modifications for my back issues.
I'm hoping this is all going to be covered by insurance. But even if it isn't I'm going to scrounge up the money anyway. I'm tired of not being able to do anything without screwing my back up repeatedly, so this seems like a good way to get started on fixing it.
Now if I can just stay off the meat.