Aug. 13th, 2009

ravnsdaughter: (hands and sky)
I just looked back in my recent entries, and realized that I've never talked about the back problems I've been having for the past couple of months.

About 6 to 8 weeks ago, I started having trouble getting out of bed in the morning. Not that I didn't WANT to, but that it was extremely painful, and I felt like I had no strength at all in my lower back. To get out of bed, I would have to brace myself on something (the wall at my old place, the nightstand and then the walls on either side of the hall to the closets at my new place), and then hobble to a chair and sit on a hard surface for 5 minutes before I could walk properly. Once I'd gotten up and had that sit-down for a bit, I'd be fine for the rest of the day, as long as I didn't lie down for any more than a minute or 2. I went to my doctor about a month or so ago, but she didn't really have any answers for me and said it was simply typical lower back pain.

Well, another month of putting up with it and I decided I was fed up. I spoke with a couple of friends who recommended a chiropractor, and then on Sunday night when we had our barbecue with Ian's family, I was talking to one of his sisters about it and she said it sounded like a SI joint (sacro-iliac) injury. I googled that on Monday morning, and my symptoms matched the descriptions I found exactly, and most of what I read recommended going to a chiropractor for it. So I made an appointment with a local chiropractor for Wednesday afternoon.

Oh. My. Goddess. The chiropractor was a frakkin' miracle worker! He did a full assessment with balance tests and strength tests and whatever else, and came to the conclusion that I had both an SI joint injury, but also some nerve issues (pinched or something, I guess). He did an adjustment using a special articulated table called Lumbar Traction Therapy to fix the SI joint injury and release the nerves. It didn't hurt at all - in fact it felt really good - and while it was difficult to get up off the table at the office there, once I was standing and walking, my back started feeling better almost immediately. And getting out of bed this morning was about 90% back to normal. Yay!

I go back for another treatment this afternoon, and then I'm guessing it'll probably be once a week for a while or something. He said he'll be giving me exercises to do when I go in today. Hopefully I will be given the ok to start using the cardio machines in the fitness room soon too!
ravnsdaughter: (Big Girl Panties)
We will FINALLY be getting real internet at the condo tomorrow... good timing too, because Ian has exhausted his bandwidth limit on his iPhone for the month. We'll be going from slower than molasses in January bandwidth (what I could get through tethering my iPhone to my computer) to zoomy-fast fibre optic bandwidth. We can both hardly wait. I told Ian the other day that aside from grocery shopping and possibly going out to see the Harry Potter movie on the big screen, I really wanted to just spend the weekend hanging out at home with him... I'm feeling slightly peopled out lately and need some relax time.

I need a to-do list for tonight, though, since I have a lot to accomplish once I get home from my chiro appointment. Some of this is because I need to get stuff done before Telus comes by to hook up our internet and cable tomorrow, and some of it is because I've decided to heck with waiting until September 1st to start my 101-in-1001 project, and I'm going to finalize my list today, post it, and declare today my starting date.

So, here's my list o' crap what I needs to do tonight:

- Open my computer up and clean out the inside (hopefully this will make it a little less noisy)
- Swap the connection over to my 1TB harddrive, wipe the drive off and install Windows on it (and set my old harddrive as a secondary drive) (and I want to do this tonight so I can start on some of my goals on my list this weekend, and also so I can fix up my UI before tomorrow night's raid)
- Clean the kitchen
- Find my prescriptions so I can get them filled (and cancel my doctor's appointment for tomorrow since I don't need it for my back anymore, and would rather not go just to say "I misplaced my prescriptions in the move, can I get new ones please?")
- Clean off the dining table and find homes for all of the crap on it.
- Finish the laundry and put it away
- Find my headset so I can raid tomorrow night without having to type out all my snarky comments
- Check my stash of flasks and mana potions on my priest and farm up the materials for more if necessary
ravnsdaughter: (create)
I decided a couple of months ago, as the changes in my life started happening with my move (and getting rid of the roommate and moving in with Ian happened), that once the move was done, I was going to begin the Day Zero project, to give myself some goals to work towards. From the founder's website:

The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in 1001 days

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measureable, or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of effort on your part).

Today is day 1, and 1001 days is up on May 10, 2012.

And... my list! Cut to spare your friends list, broken down by category

Health )

Media & Art )

Financial )

Spirituality )

Organization/Career )

Creativity )

Education )

SCA )

Relationships/Family )

Online )

Miscellaneous )

I will be posting updates on a periodic basis, as well as anytime I finish anything significant on the list. Encouragement is much appreciated! :)

Edited 08-27-09: Removed 2 goals as I've completely changed my mind about them. Will add 2 more when I decide what I want to do. (1 added August 29, 2009)

*grumble*

Aug. 13th, 2009 04:30 pm
ravnsdaughter: (oh bother)
I had an order in my head for doing the various tasks I added to my to-do list for this evening, and I wanted to start with cleaning out the inside of my computer and then get the reinstall of Windows going.

Except I can't find my damned Windows disk. It SHOULD be in the black leather CD case that I keep by my computer, but it's not.

Guess I'm going to start with other stuff first then, and hope it turns up sometime this evening. *grumble*

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