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Quilt no. 2. The colours are not terribly accurate but I figure that will just add to the excitement when it looks different than the little paper cutouts do.
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feeling like an 80 year old
I did something traumatic to my back last night. Haven't the faintest idea what it was. All day yesterday it was slightly worse than it usually is (which for the past month or two has been not too good). Then after some time spent, er, on my bed, I tried to get up and discovered a new and particularly vicious sort of pain quite unlike what I have had before. WebMD says it may be a herniated disk. I tried not to read all the horrifying and incurable other possibilities like ankylated spondylosis (which is a fantastic name! though I am not sure I spelled it correctly).
So, I am home today. All the literature says you should not rest more than a day or two, if that. I'm going to try and do my regular core exercises and go out for frequent short walks. In between I am completely incapable of leaning forward more than a couple of degrees. I have to wash one hand at a time, leaning the other hand on the counter to support myself. Sitting down and standing up involve bracing myself heavily on anything close by and making grunts of pain. I am discovering that there isn't really such a thing as a comfortable position. My movements strongly remind me of my 87 year old paternal grandmother. This is not really how I anticipated feeling at the age of 27. It makes me wonder why I bothered not taking up smoking, trying to maintain a healthy weight and a reasonably active lifestyle, faithfully doing my core exercises, etc.
In less cranky, self-pitying news, here are some pictures of food:
Here's our Canada day menu. It was intended to be entirely red and white and we mostly succeeded. Not pictured: meringue cookies and custard which were served with the raspberry sauce for dessert.
That's a mango salad Ben made. It was tasty and also beautiful.
