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Jul. 17th, 2018 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI ended up signing up for both the DC Bang and Iddy Iddy Bang Bang. I realized that one of my candidates for the latter is already well over the minimum word count (but only about 25% done) and is something I keep going back to over and over and that the DC thing is kind of chewing on my brain in ways that mean I am going to write it eventually. Maybe having a deadline will keep it from ballooning to ludicrous length and/or including seventeen zillion characters.
(And yes, I realize that long is the point of a bang. It's just that that's the part that's usually easy for me. I want to keep the DC thing as an episodic series so that each piece could work as an ending.)
I think the PT is decreasing my shoulder and neck pain, but I'm having more problems with my fingers going numb when I lie down to sleep than I had been. If I want my fingers not to go numb, I need to lie on my back with my arms at my sides. That's fine once I'm mostly asleep, but it's hard for me to start that way. My instinct is to sprawl on my side then turn to the other side for a while then turn back or lie flat. I feel physically uncomfortable and anxious if I just start out lying on my back.
I've got another PT session this morning and two more scheduled in the coming weeks. I'm going to ask some questions about the numbness today. I also want to ask for suggestions about core strengthening that won't injure me. When I do long walks, the ache that persists and stiffens is lower to mid back and abdominal. My legs are okay. My feet recover after a couple of days.
All of the core strengthening stuff I see online is aimed at people who are starting from a very different point than I am and who have different limitations than I do. I need something that starts from nothing and also puts zero pressure on my hands/wrists.
I'm getting more anxious about the CT scan tomorrow evening. Not about getting there or the process of it, more about whether or not it will find anything at all or just be an utter waste of time and money. I'm supposed to fast, water only, from 4 p.m. onwards, but I'm thinking that I might have spinach-bean soup around 1 or 2 p.m. and just water after that. I know that that will leave me feeling full for 5-7 hours, and starting the fast at that point will let me take my levothyroxine at 4 p.m. so that I can eat after the scan is done.
Meticulous planning tends to be a symptom of me getting more anxious because it's one of the few things that actually helps, apart from just doing the thing and having it be over.
(And yes, I realize that long is the point of a bang. It's just that that's the part that's usually easy for me. I want to keep the DC thing as an episodic series so that each piece could work as an ending.)
I think the PT is decreasing my shoulder and neck pain, but I'm having more problems with my fingers going numb when I lie down to sleep than I had been. If I want my fingers not to go numb, I need to lie on my back with my arms at my sides. That's fine once I'm mostly asleep, but it's hard for me to start that way. My instinct is to sprawl on my side then turn to the other side for a while then turn back or lie flat. I feel physically uncomfortable and anxious if I just start out lying on my back.
I've got another PT session this morning and two more scheduled in the coming weeks. I'm going to ask some questions about the numbness today. I also want to ask for suggestions about core strengthening that won't injure me. When I do long walks, the ache that persists and stiffens is lower to mid back and abdominal. My legs are okay. My feet recover after a couple of days.
All of the core strengthening stuff I see online is aimed at people who are starting from a very different point than I am and who have different limitations than I do. I need something that starts from nothing and also puts zero pressure on my hands/wrists.
I'm getting more anxious about the CT scan tomorrow evening. Not about getting there or the process of it, more about whether or not it will find anything at all or just be an utter waste of time and money. I'm supposed to fast, water only, from 4 p.m. onwards, but I'm thinking that I might have spinach-bean soup around 1 or 2 p.m. and just water after that. I know that that will leave me feeling full for 5-7 hours, and starting the fast at that point will let me take my levothyroxine at 4 p.m. so that I can eat after the scan is done.
Meticulous planning tends to be a symptom of me getting more anxious because it's one of the few things that actually helps, apart from just doing the thing and having it be over.
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Date: 2018-07-18 07:49 am (UTC)1. standing, feet and knees together, working on getting the weight on the balls of my feet so that my heels almost but don't quite come off the floor, and then pulling my abdominal muscles in/up. My dance teacher describes it in two parts -- pulling your undies line back to your spine, and being like a tube of toothpaste, and having to pull the toothpaste back up. Hold that position. If your lower back hurts, check you aren't leaning backwards.
2. lie on my back on the floor, knees up and together, feet flat on the floor. pull belly button to floor, hold, release. repeat. This one has a stack of more complicated versions, but this is the one I was using post-pregnancy. The next step up is to pull the knees up to tuck and the chest, and then to move them further from the chest.
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