Friday August 12, 2005
It seems that way to me right now. The physio manipulations (of my shoulder) earlier this week and the additional strengthening exercises should not have resulted in the level of shoulder pain I have experienced, according to the therapist. I'm glad she agreed with me on the "this isn't helping" front because I was awakened in excrutiating pain early Thursday morning and unable to write a cover letter Wednesday afternoon because of it (could barely sit still I was in such discomfort).
Now I am doing the same exercises without any weight so as to keep the shoulder from seizing up altogether. Also, I am going to be balancing activity with exercise to minimize discomfort and disruption to my search for work. What this means is that tomorrow when I go kayaking with Linden I will not do any strengthening exercises before and possibly not after (depending on the level of fatigue my shoulder exhibits).
After not sleeping well or much Wednesday night, I crashed in the early afternoon yesterday (Thursday) figuring I'd awake in a few hours recuperated enough to write the cover letter. NOT! I came to at 8:00 and at first thought it was the next morning. It was evening as it turned out (the fading light gave it away finally). Up I got and had a snack, watched a half hour of the tube and rather than being up all night crashed again at 11pm. Awoke just before 7 this morning feeling stiff but better than yesterday.
The recent changes to my spine have intensified my sensitivity to the weather it seems. Sudden changes in barometric pressure used to affect me briefly. Now the effect is prolonged to at least a day's worth of sluggishness and headachiness. Hopefully this will lessen as my system gets adjusted to the "injury" and I finally get more activity in my routine.