My lower back has decided to fuck with me in a whole new way. I have had problems with my left side for 20 years but now my right side has decided to join the party.
This is a brand-new area flaring. It affects my right side from lower back and down my leg to my now-tingling toes. My left side is in a small flare, too, so I have had to finally resort to using a cane. Good thing I purchased one last year.
I am in great pain, pain I haven't felt in years - since the first time my left side went through the same thing 20 years ago. I can barely walk because gravity kills me. I shuffle like your great-great-grandmother.
I wouldn't go to work tomorrow but I HAVE to go because timesheets are due and no one else is there in the morning to take responsibility for the task. I think I will probably go to work, get the timesheets done (which entails ME walking almost the entire campus unless I can get the student assistant to do exactly what is needed correctly), then limp back home.
No, I didn't do anything to kick-start it - it just appeared while I was lying down Friday night like I do every night to relieve my body after a long day at work. One moment I was fine, next moment, pain was shooting through my lower spine and sides of my butt. No, I hadn't moved right before the pain started. This is the life of someone with arthritis flares - unpredictable.
I can manage it a bit by pressing on the right side of my butt, which helps when start coughing. I can usually manage my coughing to keep from tearing out my chest but I can't stop the cough from traumatizing my lower back - it hurts like hell. Pushing on a point in my butt helps cut the pain some. It's one of those accupressure points.
The good news - Tuesday I go in for my first Enbril injection (learning how to give them to myself) so I should have some relief, hopefully relatively quickly.
I guess I have been 'blessed' with this flare so the medication will have something to 'kill'. That's how I look at it.
This photo looks almost the same as the last one. If you look closely at the line of snow by the bushes across the street you will see just a little more snow there than the prior photo.
Some areas got 7-9 inches, places only 50 miles away and still on the same flat plain we're on in the DFW area. It's flat all around us.
We're jealous. Campuses are opening at 9am, the usual time I go to work anyway. Oh well.
My class got cancelled this evening because of weather. Now, we didn't get anything but rain here, however, other areas got a few inches of snow so everything shut down.
This has put a real zinger on my class - tonight was the 'using Photoshop for cel shading and screentoning' lecture. So I have been busy shuffling things around and waiting for students to respond to an email about extending the dates so the material can be covered. If they vote not to extend the dates, then I have to frantically put together tutorials (with lots of screenshots) to show them what they should and should not do while working with the different PS tasks they need to succeed with the assignment.
It snowed 3/3/08. Decided to try videoing with the digital still camera AND posting it on YouTube (first time to post). I hope the quality comes out okay - the camera isn't as good as my s-video camera but it's still being borrowed.
YouTube made the videos larger than 320x240 so they look weird.
Thanks: --> to Lia, my sensei, who has inspired me to draw again. I
wouldn't be doing this without your support, Domo Arigato!
--> to Talon, for sending me her fabulous fics, inspiring me with her writing to draw my first
illustration for a story and actually liking what I drew.
--> to Dasia, for her words of encouragement when drawing her original chara.
--> to Joules, a wonderful epic fic writer, for liking my art enough to want to post them with Talon's
and her own stories.
--> to Lutra, the other half of the epic team, for being so supportive.
--> to Jacque' & Becca Raddittzu, we met on eBay as bidder and sellers and now we are face-to-face
friends. You showed us the real DBZ with your fansubs. It's all your fault the house is full of
doujinshi! *LOL*
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