My blood pressure continues to maintain good numbers. Yesterday was 110/70. SWEET. Let's see if it will hold thereabouts when I see my kidney guy next month.
I am now up to my second round of injections in my knee, with the third to happen in 15 days.
I'm continuing to keep a tight schedule, all in the hopes of improving my mobility and pain issues--which reminds me, I need to call the orthotist to find out a status on my orthodics which were being revised.
Appointments in the mornings before work for injections or MRI or xrays, and appointments in the evenings after work for acupuncture (2 days a week, Monday and Friday), cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as physical therapy on Wednesdays and Saturdays with chiropractic on alternating Saturdays immediately following physical therapy. Dental stuff. Eye glasses.
Then there's the issue of household stuff like groceries and pharmacy runs and laundry drop off/pick ups, and somehow getting all that done. But things are so precariously tight, that if I miss groceries or laundry, it can be problematic trying to find the time to do so. I've tried to get the household into a schedule of running the garbage to the dumpster before work on Mondays and Fridays, and laundry drop off/pick ups after work on Mondays and Fridays. I consider it a win if we manage to do this on a Sunday, which lessens our demands for time on Mondays at least.
While we were away three weeks ago, I saw an acupuncturist twice, and decided to get back into the swing of things with more regular acupuncture appointments. I managed to find a very capable and caring acupuncturist close to home and have been seeing her for the last 3 weeks or so, and have noticed a change in my hip bursitis as well as some improvement with my walking. Perhaps I can delay getting nerve ablation in my back. Only time will tell. But she's very helpful, and I see each session building on the work and benefits of the previous session. I even feel some sense of psychological benefit to the sessions too--even validation in some regards.
She's such a good acupuncturist, even the Maharajah has decided to seek out treatment from her. And I've recommended her to at least one co-worker.
Physical therapy is making me stronger but not improving my pain issues. And perhaps once I discontinue PT, whenever that might be, I'll consider joining the YWCA and start going there on Mon-Wed-Fri. Perhaps.
I've also been taking an online psychology course which has been helpful. It's a 10 week course, and I am up to week 7, and from now until the end of the course, I have to try to entrench new neural pathways by establishing a new habit for me, in this case, improving my sleep.
So I'm chipping away at things, making some improvements, and trying to forgive myself by not achieving my goal faster, but to focus on making incremental progress. Last night I got six hours of sleep, so I just have to start tweaking what time I actually get to bed until I finally arrive at 7 hours of sleep a night.
I have to remind myself, I AM WORTH IT.
I am now up to my second round of injections in my knee, with the third to happen in 15 days.
I'm continuing to keep a tight schedule, all in the hopes of improving my mobility and pain issues--which reminds me, I need to call the orthotist to find out a status on my orthodics which were being revised.
Appointments in the mornings before work for injections or MRI or xrays, and appointments in the evenings after work for acupuncture (2 days a week, Monday and Friday), cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as physical therapy on Wednesdays and Saturdays with chiropractic on alternating Saturdays immediately following physical therapy. Dental stuff. Eye glasses.
Then there's the issue of household stuff like groceries and pharmacy runs and laundry drop off/pick ups, and somehow getting all that done. But things are so precariously tight, that if I miss groceries or laundry, it can be problematic trying to find the time to do so. I've tried to get the household into a schedule of running the garbage to the dumpster before work on Mondays and Fridays, and laundry drop off/pick ups after work on Mondays and Fridays. I consider it a win if we manage to do this on a Sunday, which lessens our demands for time on Mondays at least.
While we were away three weeks ago, I saw an acupuncturist twice, and decided to get back into the swing of things with more regular acupuncture appointments. I managed to find a very capable and caring acupuncturist close to home and have been seeing her for the last 3 weeks or so, and have noticed a change in my hip bursitis as well as some improvement with my walking. Perhaps I can delay getting nerve ablation in my back. Only time will tell. But she's very helpful, and I see each session building on the work and benefits of the previous session. I even feel some sense of psychological benefit to the sessions too--even validation in some regards.
She's such a good acupuncturist, even the Maharajah has decided to seek out treatment from her. And I've recommended her to at least one co-worker.
Physical therapy is making me stronger but not improving my pain issues. And perhaps once I discontinue PT, whenever that might be, I'll consider joining the YWCA and start going there on Mon-Wed-Fri. Perhaps.
I've also been taking an online psychology course which has been helpful. It's a 10 week course, and I am up to week 7, and from now until the end of the course, I have to try to entrench new neural pathways by establishing a new habit for me, in this case, improving my sleep.
So I'm chipping away at things, making some improvements, and trying to forgive myself by not achieving my goal faster, but to focus on making incremental progress. Last night I got six hours of sleep, so I just have to start tweaking what time I actually get to bed until I finally arrive at 7 hours of sleep a night.
I have to remind myself, I AM WORTH IT.
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