Dutchess is a sniffer. Everywhere she goes, she’s nose to the ground, -sniffsniffsniff- You’d think she was a beagle and not a dalmatian.
The cold weather enhances the smells for her, keeps them around longer, helps her seperate each smell from the last one. We have lots of bunnies and squirrels around and in the late fall, it just takes way too damn long for her to do her dog business -lol- Less sniffing, more pooping!
Big change coming up in the world in the next 72 hours give or take some. New president, data recovery, eyebrow waxing…
I’ve been incredibly high strung and irritable since mucking my back up last Sunday. Were now a full week and I still have pain; I woke up incredibly stiff and pained this morning, but it subsided to a dull stabbing by noon after doing some walking around. So I need to call the dr and see what she wants to do. I have an appointment on the 11th for a physical, but I’d rather not have to wait that long if I don’t have to in hopes of making sure things can be seen on X-Rays to get some sort of yes or no on what’s going on.
the year sure has gone by fast. Christmas is just around the corner. blech. This is the official start of NaBloPoMo. Lets see how the next 30 days go!
Was out late, went to bed even later. Lucien was up around 3 sick from coughing. Poor kiddo’s had a nasty phlegmy cough for a while now.. 3am seems to be his magic hour for waking up coughing. yeehaw. Kev was up with him too god knows when, and they just woke up. I got up only to let the dog out and of course I’m up for good since having to go out in the zomgcold! It’s a crisp 3C (37F) and going up to a balmy 5C (41F). brr.
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I have some cute things to get pictures of today as well as a couple of videos. Then I have to go find me a costume.
day 6 of zee back pain. I slept pretty good last night sans pain killers, woke up feeling good but now that I’m moving around and sitting, the cutting pain is back again. Not as sharp as it’s been, but still there. I definately had the tingly toe issue about 5 minutes ago too, so I’ll be calling the dr. this afternoon to hopefully see her next week sometime.
but getting better I suppose. Still have the sharp cutting pain in the right hip and my left outer toes were tingly earlier but that could have been because of my winter boots.
Today I went and got the little man some punkins. I feel bad as he’s been OBSESSING over having a pumpkin or 60 for the past month and I’m just getting them now. I think that we’ll only carve one out of the three and leave the other two for decoration on the porch for the next little while. I got 3 pie pumpkins as well for him to colour faces on, i’ll make them into pie next week. He went to nursery school this morning dressed as a fireman. He wore this adorable little shirt my friend Angela got him for his birthday, it has a fireman’s outfit on it to look like he’s wearing it. He also wore his fireman hat that Juli got him for his birthday. I figured it’d be too warm to wear his costume for tomorrow at school, turned out every other kid other than his little girlfriend Leena was wearing their big fleecey costume -lol-
chili… and lots of it!
Making a pot of chili today, was going to do it over the weekend but found myself without the ability to move. I noticed it somewhat Saturday afternoon that my right hip and leg were REALLY achey. I chalked it up to sitting for so long(was participating in an all day scrapbooking event) as well as the incredibly wet weather we were having. I woke up Sunday stiff but nothing more than normal, while washing dishes I started to feel more and more sore, like gravity was doing overtime on my spine - by 11 I was near in tears. This happens every month or so, where my back gets tweaky, hurts a lot, I gimp around, then I’m ok for the next while. This time however was much much worse, there were moments Sunday that were way worse than labour. Got to the dr. yesterday afternoon after spending 2 days in excruciating pain on the couch and chair with the heating pad. Got my legs twisted in all sorts of horrid positions, did a walk test, and was told that the pain was not in my hips (which I thought it was due to the fact my back feels fine), but is a disc problem. Now, the million dollar question is: Is it a bulging disc? or a herniated disc?
Day 3, I have more mobility due to pain relievers but I’m hurting pretty bad still. It’s still a deep cutting pain but more focused on the areas that hurt. While I was more comfortable last night when sleeping, I didn’t sleep well, upon investigation it looks like there is a small percentage that the drug I’m taking for anti-inflammation can cause sleep disturbance. I was up every hour almost to the exact minute. I have to check in with my GP in a week to see how I’m doing and get on the list to get a CT or MRI done. For all that I’ve heard, the waiting list for those things is miles long, so it’ll be a while. Hopefully I can get some xrays or something in the mean time to get at least a general assessment of what is going on in the old spine.
but now I don’t only because blogging about it after discussing world affairs to death with friends etc is exhausting. In a way, I guess that’s a good thing because it shows where I was socially 6 years ago versus now -lol- But at the same time, I can’t help but think, when you all come to visit, that you’re going “oh jeez, another cleaning list” -lol- I HAVE been blogging on the side for getting healthy but it’s a private blog, if you want to read it, I’ll probably let ya, but you have to ask first. Oh and you need a gmail/blogger account to be added on.
I’m going to try and revitalize DIR over the next few months. I’m foolishly going to participate in NaBloPoMo again next month, so hopefully that will get things moving. If you want to suggest topics for me to write about, I’ll do my best to see what I can do.
