So this is the first post of the New Year on my blog and I'll warn you, it's nothing special. That to do list I posted about earlier never happened, as a matter of fact this new year hasn't started out all that great for me. I hurt my back on Christmas Day and I've been in a lot of pain since then. My New Year's Resolution is to be able to walk without looking like an old geezer again. Today is really the first day I ventured out into the world to run errands on my own. I don't think I got much past noon before wishing I were at home and in bed. I'm in for a long evening though because class also starts tonight. Driving a manual transmission with back pain is not recommended either. Pain is a motivation sucker; I haven't even had all that much motivation to even be online. Work isn't fun either. I don't have the luxury of sitting at a desk all day, I move around constantly, bend, stand, sit, and move heavy boxes. I started shifting biographies a few weeks ago but could only work for about 30 minutes before I got tired or hurt. I'm envious of people who can walk. The whole situation sucks for me because I have to rely on other people and I hate relying on other people. I've actually prefer to work through the pain than to ask another person for help, and usually that's what I do.
I went to the doctor, even though I hate going to doctors. He told me that it's a chronic flare-up; basically I just have to deal with it. That's fine because now I can systematically avoid more doctor visits. It is getting better, some days it doesn't always feel like that, but the first week it happened I could feel it in my whole back, now the pain is just centralized in one spot on my back. I can't walk real straight though so that's making me overcompensate and after some time my leg muscles start to get sore.
But life goes on. I'm leaving for Vegas on Saturday so I'm hoping to be able to move a little faster by then so my trip doesn't suck. I'm also hoping to be fine by the time we leave for Toronto because I planned some geocaching and sightseeing that requires us to walk a lot.
Last year wasn't bad; I'm not worried about this year being bad either (despite the rough start). My life philosophy is to take things as they come and deal with them as they happen.
