purplerabbits

Yesterday I was off sick with back pain. This may have been due in part to the fact that I went to a party on Saturday and then spent six hours on Sunday reading comics round a friend’s house, both times spending most of the time sitting on the floor. Anyway, come Monday morning I was in an annoying amount of pain, which turned to agony when I tried to sit at my desk. I figured that if I couldn’t even sit down to read Livejournal, then I wasn’t faking it, and phoned in sick…

After going for a walk and shopping I felt somewhat better (I had the shopping delivered, so no heavy lifting), so I decided to join Paul in going swimming. Now, I haven’t been swimming for about seven years, my suit is an old somewhat stretched one that my mother gave me and is light blue, and I have a phobia of small children taunting me, so this was pretty brave. Anyway, not only did I enjoy it, but my back didn’t hurt at all afterwards, so I’ll be going back. I felt as if I’d had some exercise, without the heart-pounding exhaustion I get from the other exercises I’ve tried, and the small children mostly avoided us, which was fine by me.

Today I’m back at work, and finding sitting at the desk bearable, though I am in what the medics tend to call ‘some discomfort’. I’ll take a walk at lunchtime and see if that helps.