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The pall of age is upon me and my sinews have withered grievously
2025-Jan-08, Wednesday 10:45
I hurt my back.
On Monday I was vacuuming and doing the area around the closet in Laila's room when I bent down a bit to get behind the door and felt a sharp pain in my back. I levered myself back up to vertical using the vacuum, told Laila that everything was fine, and tried to do the same to![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee when she came to see what was going on but she was having none of it. She told me to sit down with some ice on my back, ignored my protests, and proceeded to finish up the vacuuming. Laila came over and sat on my lap--fortunately I wasn't so injured that she couldn't do that--and sashagee handled mostly getting her ready for bed. She said she would do all the bedtime singing and stories, too, but I wasn't going to miss bedtime, and sitting seiza wasn't too bad, so I came in and sat that way and went out at the end and took it easy. When I woke up the next morning it still hurt but not as much, and sashagee put an icy-hot patch on my back after my shower and I was even able to pick up Laila when she asked "Hold you?" I took it easy yesterday, working from home, and today I was able to go back into the office.
I'm lucky. My back is still sore, and I don't have perfect range of movement, but I was able to take a full shower in the standing shower and wipe down all the walls afterwards as long as I knelt down to get the bottom instead of bending over. As I was talking about it tosashagee I described my work as a "soft hands office job" and it's true, but it's meant that even over age 40 my body is still in very good condition. People repeatedly think I'm 5-10 years younger than I actually am, and that helped me bounce back.
But it's a warning that I need to be careful.
On Monday I was vacuuming and doing the area around the closet in Laila's room when I bent down a bit to get behind the door and felt a sharp pain in my back. I levered myself back up to vertical using the vacuum, told Laila that everything was fine, and tried to do the same to
sashagee when she came to see what was going on but she was having none of it. She told me to sit down with some ice on my back, ignored my protests, and proceeded to finish up the vacuuming. Laila came over and sat on my lap--fortunately I wasn't so injured that she couldn't do that--and sashagee handled mostly getting her ready for bed. She said she would do all the bedtime singing and stories, too, but I wasn't going to miss bedtime, and sitting seiza wasn't too bad, so I came in and sat that way and went out at the end and took it easy. When I woke up the next morning it still hurt but not as much, and sashagee put an icy-hot patch on my back after my shower and I was even able to pick up Laila when she asked "Hold you?" I took it easy yesterday, working from home, and today I was able to go back into the office.I'm lucky. My back is still sore, and I don't have perfect range of movement, but I was able to take a full shower in the standing shower and wipe down all the walls afterwards as long as I knelt down to get the bottom instead of bending over. As I was talking about it to
sashagee I described my work as a "soft hands office job" and it's true, but it's meant that even over age 40 my body is still in very good condition. People repeatedly think I'm 5-10 years younger than I actually am, and that helped me bounce back.But it's a warning that I need to be careful.
