2024 Life Logs, Day 33: Slow Down
Date: Friday, February 2, 2024
Weather: Overcast; High Temp 43, Low 31 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
My body gave me a huge screaming message today, “Slow down.” I know I did too much yesterday, but when I got up this morning everything was fine. However, by 11 am I was so sleepy I had to take a nap. That seemed strange. Then I put on that knee brace and took Shadow for a longer walk than usual. The return trip home was tough. My legs just didn’t want to keep going. When I got home, I laid flat on my back and took another nap. It was when I got up from that nap that I felt THE pain. THAT pain, the nerve pain in my left hip. It was time to fix dinner and it was painful to stand, but I put an ice pack on my back and continued. The ice pack helped. All I can figure is that I have been trying to do too much which has caused swelling in my back. The swelling pushes on those nerves and causes the pain. I find a little bit of hope in the fact that the ice packs tonight have helped. I also stopped taking Tylenol a couple of days ago, so I have started taking that again. But the main thing I am going to do is to dial back the activity and hope I have not done irreparable damage.
