Oh My Aching Back!

The weather is damp outside and I can hardly move. My back grabs and does a lot of cracking and popping and occasionally I feel pain travelling down the cheek of my buttock into my thigh.

I had some plans for today but they are going to need to wait I guess. I have resorted to laying on the heating pad, taking some medications and resting. But you know, that is alright. I know this will get better in time. I have had an irritable back on and of these past couple weeks so it didn't surprise me to have it flare this way.

I periodically do the exercises I was instructed to do in PT and it seems to help. This helps me to keep stretched out and return to a more upright posture. If I don't do them I tend to lean forward when I stand and walk and this only adds to the other problems I already have. Hopefully the heat will help and I will be doing better later today.

Do you find you react to the weather? Many folks do.How do you handle it? Do you modify your plans? Struggle through the original plans for the day inspite of the pain? I would be interested in what you have to say.

- Indie

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