Tuesday are hell. I am at school from 10:15am-9:30pm. Granted, I have a 5 hour break that I could drive home during but with $3.15 for gas I'd rather stick it out on campus. Anyway, 12pm Wednesday yoga is often my saving grace as of late. I started going with my friend Austin and his parents on Saturdays in the "town" next to me (I often use the term town loosely as seeing the population of this one is probably under 5000). So I started going to a higher level class at a studio in Brunswick on Wednesdays. It helps relieve the stress of 11 hours in Portland and sitting in a plastic chair most of the day.
Well yesterday after yoga I was feeling great, as usual, and came home before headed to my 4:10-6:40 Cost Accounting class. By the time I got home yesterday evening my entire upper back was in spasms. Fast forward through the night of tossing and turning and I woke up this morning with just as much pain and another full day of classes. So needless to say, when I got home from school I decided to stop trying to suck it up and take something. My mom then told me that her orthopedic surgeon said that extra strength tylenol and motrin together is essentially percocet and decided to adminster a correct dose.
I NEVER take pain medicine for the simple reason that when I am in a state of discomfort similair to my current situation I can combat the pain quite easily. Not only did the percocet only slightly knock me out (still tossed and turned) but my back is in just as much pain as it started in. Now my mom's asleep and I'm going to have to raid her drug stash to try and sleep the full night. I was totally hoping for a drug induced coma but apparently my body has a different agenda.
Anyway, I like writing in a blog again. I feel entirely inspired/intimidated by everyone elses entries. I am not nearly as interesting or profound as the rest of you but at least I have the opportunity for increased communication. Tomorrow I have to go pick up my saab from its window regulator repair (gotta love plastic parts breaking in the cold Maine winters and costs $299 to repair since your car is made in Europe). Then I have an all night marathon of Degrassi: The Next Generation with Austin.
1 comment:
I'm in a similar situation at the moment, having been with the same lower back issues since last Thursday. It wasn't yoga that did me in, but pilates. Yoga actually made me feel *better* yesterday even if I was a little afraid of going in the first place. Tonight...will certainly be interesting. I'll probably have to go through the motions for a bunch of the exercises.
BTW: I had no idea your schedule was so insane. I'm proud of you for keeping up, so keep up the hard work and you'll be done in no time :)
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