Back Pain

Tuesday morning, I woke up with a deep-seated muscle pain between my shoulder blades, to the left of my spine. Apparently, the pillow I used that night distinctly does not agree with me.

It's generally been a dull throb; turning my head more than 45 degrees from center causes pain to shoot down from the back of my neck to below the left shoulder blade. It's made checking my blind spot while driving a complete joy.

The pain has generally been fading since the first bout. cuyahogarvr used our thumping hand massager on me Tuesday afternoon which helped a great deal and I left pretty good after sitting in the hottub last night.

At the moment, I think the pain is lower than in the past couple of days so perhaps it's my patience that's expired but I'm feeling seriously annoyed with my back & shoulder this morning. I'm more conscious of the pain even if my flexibility is nearly normal. It feels like I need to stretch just so that everything pops back into its proper place, but I can't either relax enough or push myself physically far enough to let it happen. The usual stretching exercises haven't helped, although I've cleared my cube twice to try so far today.

I feel I need a herd of elephants to tap-dance on my upper back, or at least have someone squeeze me intensely enough to realign everything. Any takers?

Back Pain

Tuesday morning, I woke up with a deep-seated muscle pain between my shoulder blades, to the left of my spine. Apparently, the pillow I used that night distinctly does not agree with me.

It's generally been a dull throb; turning my head more than 45 degrees from center causes pain to shoot down from the back of my neck to below the left shoulder blade. It's made checking my blind spot while driving a complete joy.

The pain has generally been fading since the first bout. cuyahogarvr used our thumping hand massager on me Tuesday afternoon which helped a great deal and I left pretty good after sitting in the hottub last night.

At the moment, I think the pain is lower than in the past couple of days so perhaps it's my patience that's expired but I'm feeling seriously annoyed with my back & shoulder this morning. I'm more conscious of the pain even if my flexibility is nearly normal. It feels like I need to stretch just so that everything pops back into its proper place, but I can't either relax enough or push myself physically far enough to let it happen. The usual stretching exercises haven't helped, although I've cleared my cube twice to try so far today.

I feel I need a herd of elephants to tap-dance on my upper back, or at least have someone squeeze me intensely enough to realign everything. Any takers?

Wednesday Night

We didn't square dance last night. *gasp!*

Instead, volunqueer, visiting from Atlanta on business, stopped by to visit. We had a lovely dinner at our favourite mexican restaurant, Mi Rancho: I ate too much but it was so good.

After dinner, we returned to the house and vegetated a while before shifting to the hottub after dark. It's been a while since I've been in the tub: I prefer a very hot tub but the hubbies have turned it down a couple of degrees to the low end of my preferred range. Humph. Still, my back greatly apprecated the soak and massaging jets.

volunqueer will be returning in October so we'll do it all again in two months. Yay!

Wednesday Night

We didn't square dance last night. *gasp!*

Instead, volunqueer, visiting from Atlanta on business, stopped by to visit. We had a lovely dinner at our favourite mexican restaurant, Mi Rancho: I ate too much but it was so good.

After dinner, we returned to the house and vegetated a while before shifting to the hottub after dark. It's been a while since I've been in the tub: I prefer a very hot tub but the hubbies have turned it down a couple of degrees to the low end of my preferred range. Humph. Still, my back greatly apprecated the soak and massaging jets.

volunqueer will be returning in October so we'll do it all again in two months. Yay!