ugh

[juldea]

horrible, horrible.

I had been doing well, spending all my time on the couch, feeling better each day. Then yesterday grinds to a close and I'm really achey for some reason. I go to bed at midnight-ish and I just couldn't sleep. Every position was painful. I tossed and turned all night - except I couldn't toss and turn, if I tried in my sleep I woke up in pain, and then struggled to turn myself around without using my back. I was in bed from midnight to 9 and I swear I got an hour of sleep total. I feel horrible.

Now I'm back on the couch and full of ibuprofen (well not FULL), and hopefully I'll relax enough to be comfortable and nod off.

In the not-injury news, Mike (karlean7), whom I met last Saturday night at Randy*Con, came over last night. First he hummed for a while (dictation homework) but then I lured him away from his computer with the promise of Buffy. :) Not to say he was ignoring me, we made conversation inbetween the simple triads :) Plus I pulled out my flute and tried to match what the computer was playing. It was fun.

I have noticed a new rite of passage - you meet new people, and immediately exhange media. He lent me all his CDs to copy (yay more Jonathan Larsen!), and I lent him a book and would have lent him Buffy if he had a decent DVD player. It's all good :)

Yay friends!

Now to watch Firefly until my eyes bleed or I fall asleep. Um, I hope it's the latter.

Comments

[ratbastrd.livejournal.com]

My friends and I have swapped, leant and given so much media to each other,that noone really knows who owns what anymore. Books and CD's and videos and what have you ae just sort of one big amorphos mass, a lendign library spread out over 5 or 6 apartments.

hope you feel better!

[tlluria.livejournal.com]

i know all about back pains.

for what it's worth, painkillers never worked for me, but there are a number of back exercises that i found on webMD that always helped. i was in tears the first couple times i tried it, but i kept my own pace and stuck with it. that's the only thing that helps me.

good luck, feel better!

Sonia

Re: hope you feel better!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip :) But this isn't a random back pain, it's a specific injury I inflicted upon myself. Still, those exercises might help my recovery :) I'll check them out!