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My backs back!

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My back is feeling a lot better! I don’t think I’ll be able to say it’s completely back to normal for a few days, but three days of really taking it easy and gobbling down aspirin to take the inflammation down in my lower spine seems to have really helped.

We have a dog training class tonight and I was really dreading going if my back was still acting up. Midnight gets so excited when she sees the other dogs and she’s in love with the trainer who talks in a loud excited friendly voice so she’s alway pulling on her leash (and yes sometimes barking!) while we’re in class. I was afraid that if my back was still really bad and she started pulling on her leash and jumping around while in her training class that my back would be done for! As it is I’ll still have to be careful, but I think there’s less chance now that a small movement will throw it out again.

Did all the snow and the subsequent shoveling get to any of you’re backs?





Dying to finish our renovation jobs!

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I’m still stuck lying on the couch today. My back is still aching terribly.

It was a bit better at 5 a.m. I’d fallen asleep on the couch with a heating pad set on medium under my back and that seemed to have loosened up my muscles. Now though it’s back to being very painful to move around. Grrr

So I’m spending my time looking at the computer. Typing away at a few posts and also doing some online shopping at places like directbuy. Well … I’m just window shopping really. I’m trying to get some ideas for the house. You know for when we finally finish renovating our living room dining room and also for when we begin to renovate our basement.

I hope we can started on those projects soon. I’m so tired of living in a half finished house it’s not funny!

Have you been stuck living in a house with a half finished reno job for an extended period of time?

Oh my back!

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I really did my back in yesterday with all the shoveling of snow that I ended up doing. I think I went out and shoveled four times for a total of about five to five and a half hours.

By the last outing at 1 in the morning I had to shovel hunched over as my lower back was in spasms.

Today I can barely move. It takes me a few minutes to get up in order to walk around and walking up the stairs is excruciating. I’ve spent most of the day lying on the couch with my legs bent. Oh and I’ve taken a lot of aspirin to try to take down any inflammation in my back.

My back doesn’t bother me too often luckily. Only when I really over do it. I’m actually surprised it doesn’t bother me more often as I seem to have been born with a congenital defect. Two of my lumbar vertebrae are fused on one side. Like I said I was born with this problem. It’s really fun when I’ve had to have a spinal tap as the fusion is right where they usually try to stick that big needle in your back!

I just need to wait until my back clicks back into place. I hope it shifts back into place soon!

He’s snoring

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I’m sitting in my living room watching TV and typing away on the laptop and I can hear a sound … it sounds like a motor it’s so regular … it’s my husband snoring!

It took me a while to figure out what the noise was, but that’s it. He’s snoring.

My husband has sleep apnea and he’s supposed to be wearing a cpap mask while he sleeps. He must have pulled it off again …

Sounds like there’s a bear upstairs. I’d better get him to put on his mask before he wakes up the dog!

Strange stormy weather

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Well we’re in for some more strange weather.

Yesterday we were supposed to have an ice storm but it seems to have missed the Toronto area. Thankfully!

I don’t think we’ll be so lucky tonight. We’ve got another ice and snow storm headed our way. It’s supposed to start sometime this evening and go through into tomorrow. I think there’s more snow coming over the rest of the week too.

Luckily it won’t be all that cold and with any luck whatever drops down on us will melt fairly fast.

Yesterday it really warmed up here. It got up to 12 Celsius (53.6 F)! So some of our huge snow pile on the front lawn and the five foot high snow banks on either side of our driveway managed to melt a bit.

Chris was enjoying the warm weather so much that he suggested we go to The Beach area and take Midnight for a walk on the boardwalk. It would have been her first time visiting the beach and seeing Lake Ontario. Unfortunately I was still feeling quite bad yesterday so I just wasn’t up to going. With any luck we’ll have another nice warm day like that soon and we’ll get to see our puppy frolic by the water soon.

I hope I’ll be able to say that all of our snow has pretty much melted away soon.

How’s the weather in your area?

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