Woke up for a while at 5, but thankfully was able to force myself back to sleep. Got on the inversion table first thing, and boy is that really difficult. What a shock to the body right after waking up. Water is out of most of the day, but they gave notice yesterday, so I’m ready with a bucket of water and 2 pots filled and sitting on my stove. Looks like my shower will be like when I lived in a van. Pain is right on the edge right now. This day could go either way for sure.
Having a hard time with the pain today. It’s just like a few days ago when I was pretty paralyzed from it. The fibromyalgia seems to still be at bay though. I’ll take high pain days over low fibro days. Short walk, didn’t use the cane at all. Felt pretty good.
OK, 1:30 and the pain is really fucking bad. I’m barely hanging on. The fibro flare will be right behind if this keeps up. Just went for a second walk. I stepped off the curb in a crosswalk and underestimated how tall it was. My foot slammed down and I had an intense flash of pain. I only saw white for a second. I made it a block and a half before I realized I had tears running down my face and that I was holding my breath. Then I realized I didn’t remember the last block and a half. I was just on auto-pilot the whole time. This happened to me once when I was recovering from my last spine surgery. I stepped off a seam in the road that was no more than a half inch and the same exact white flash of pain hit me. Amazing how you can think you’re doing decent, but then that happens. Thankfully I had an ice pack on.
Did 25 minutes on the exercise bike. Had a lot of energy after a carb heavy dinner. Plus I just wanted to take advantage of this decent streak as much as possible. One last short walk in the evening without the cane! I really wanted it halfway through. That pain hit and really slowed me down. Now that I’m getting some distance in my legs, I might be able to go without the cane more often. I sure hope so. I hate that thing.