Pain (less)

Mondays are generally a pain because I've put off so many things til the last minute (just call me Captain Procrastination!) and when Sunday afternoon starts sliding into evening, my capitulating brain decides that it is too tired to fuss with any of the things on the To-Do list and asks Mr Sandman over for a nice, relaxing nightcap and before you can say "Out!" my eyes are closed and I'm snuggled up in my nice, warm bed.

And then morning comes like a shower of cold December rain.

This particular Monday was a double-whammy of cold-water-in-the-face because I had a 7:30 a.m. appointment with the Physical Therapist and then an 8:15 appointment with the Doctor. And this is in addition to the normal up-at-the-crack-of-5 because "my brain is awake and won't shut up even though my body is still exhausted" routine. Luckily for me they are in the same building!

But when I got to the clinic, I discovered that the morning had been even worse for someone else: there was a fire truck, and ambulance, and a police car sitting in the driveway. Apparently someone upstairs in the Lab had a serious issue (my PT described it as a "tragedy") and wouldn't be going home without some assistance. As for myself, after a few neck-stretches and bar-pulls followed by a quick check-in with the doctor across the hallway, I was on my way back home under my own power.

And (relatively) pain free.

The exercises and attention to good posture have been doing me quite a bit of good. It is sad that my body is finally paying me back for all those years of abusing it (spinally speaking), but at least there is the comfort that my children learned proper sitting etiquette from their mother, so it is unlikely they will ever have to put up with this kind of PT. 

Of course, it also means that whenever they drive a car I've been driving, there is always an eye-roll and a look of complete disgust when they have to re-adjust the seat back to 'normal'. Oh, well, not everyone enjoys driving from a La-Z-Boy.

And that's another thing I'm going to have to give up if I want to remain pain-free.