Last week, a growing pain in the right ankle/calf divide grew increasingly until now, when I am taking pretty much a full on breather from the whole moving thing.
This is by way of introducing my “Avoiding | Reducing Chronic Pain All-Day Resting Nest of a Couch”:
You can see the expert skill of repurposing the back cushions into a resting place for my head and elevated legs. Kind of thing you don’t learn in those fancy-pants colleges and whathaveyou.
Ah, good times. Great times.
On the other hand, I have already finished off two books today and starting a third, so there is that. I’m just going stir crazy enough that I’m going to put aside the “all day rest” for a portion of the day and do a very, very slow stationary bike workout. Something like the equivalent of just floating on your back and letting the wind take you across the lake while you paddle here or there to stop from slamming into gators.
“Don’t float on your back so long you drift into gators,” isn’t, but feels like it could be, a proper Alabama saying.
Bonus sad times: my favorite black jacket which I have worn for…nearly (?) twenty-years finally had its zipper break. It was obvious that it was starting to break down but still…
Goodbye my old friend.