Oh My Aching Back.......

I am not sure the being healthy focus is all that it's cracked up to be. After working out yesterday and then doing crunches just before going to bed - I woke up this morning unable to move and with a stabbing pain in my back.

I took one of the hottest showers I have taken and let the heat beat down on it, did the exercises that I got from Laura Cooper, my physical therapist and even took some motrin thinking that would help. Not. I was tempted to just stay put for a bit, but I wasn't in a place that would have felt like I was taking care of me - more of a place that was saying get on the road and see what happens.

Sadly, I could hardly get out of the car to pump gas and I could hardly turn to see if cars were coming from the left before I pulled out. It was a sharp stabbing pain that was between my waist and my bra line on the left side. Kind of what I remember back labor being like....and every time I moved I wanted to cry. I knew it wasn't labor; didn't think it was appendix since it wasn't in the front of my body and had to assume it was just an ache that wanted to have attention since that part of my body had not had any exercise for awhile.

I also thought maybe I am having a delayed reaction from my wonderful massage from Monte where he did lots of deep tissue massaging. I swear at times it felt like he was a 240 pound man pushing on my muscles instead of the 140 lb he told me he was. I tried drinking lots of water, but maybe that was not enough,

About 4 lights down the road, I pulled over and painfully got out of the car and got the vicadon out of my suitcase. I figured that if nothing else, I was more than willing to mask the symptoms of whatever it was. I planned to only drive to Jackson, Wyoming which was only 180 miles away and thought I would find a nice place to stay and if I wasn't better by tomorrow, I would give into it and crash.

I also stopped several times along the road and pulled my aching body out of the car to buy water in case it was the altitude and the massage. I was willing to try anything at this point.

Since it hasn't gone away and I still have the pain,I am now doing visual healing. I see myself healthy, happy, wealthy, wonderful and wise so I know that by tomorrow I will be raring to go.

And, luckily the hotel I am staying in has a pool with a hot tub and I am going to go sit in that too. After being relaxed I can share all of the wonderful experiences of the day.....and there were some.