Tuesday August 23, 2005
... the more I can do. Every day I'm doing a little more and feeling less pain than anticipated, thanks to the reintroduction of anti-inflammatory medication naproxen sodium aka Aleve (OT¢ from the USA through the internet but Rx here in The Land Of $ocialized Medicine)
In the past three days I have:
hacked the evil boxspring into two pieces. Mike Hoye sawed through the the wood part about a year ago so it could be "bent" to fit down the stairs on Bay St. On Saturday many pieces of the wire grid comprising the top of the beast were hacksawed. [I only got bit once, too.]
tossed the halves with the help of Deb. We were lucky to have the weather on our side and had a good brunch afterward. Thanks Deb.
experienced elevator bafflement. Suffice it to say I will not, for a very long time, forget to press the Call Button at the storage facility. You had to be there to appreciate the silliness of it all. Deb is probably still shaking her head. It's a wonder she agreed to be a passenger in the Jeep afterward.
visited a couple of friends without forewarning. I dropped in to leave something for Patrick and spent a pleasant hour chatting with his wife while he was out and about on an errand. The significant part of this event was the fact that I sat for over an hour without pain. My physiotherapist has set me the odd task of finding out how long I can sit without pain. Anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that I rarely voluntarily sit in one place for more than an hour - even when I am working at a desk job. Now I know an hour is not the limit.
sat for over two hours on the ground at the last evening performance at the Ottawa Folk Festival on Sunday night. No neck or back pain but I finally had to get up because I was cold and my butt was numb. Enjoyed some new musical experiences. Sat again for 2 hours indoors on a plastic "auditorium" type chair at a wonderful Alternative evening program at the same festival. A singalong with a Beatles tune was one of the highlights. I'm planning to go to more of this next year (assuming I'm in Ottawa that is!)
got lost during the late night transit trip home. Well, not so much lost as I missed Tunney's Pasture on the Transitway. I did notice Westboro because we stopped there, but honestly, the next stop we made was Lebreton. I've never taken the bus this late at night and I'm thinking they expect you to request the stops along the Transitway. Not good if you don't know where they are and can't see out because of the extremely bright interior lighting of the passenger section. Once I'd missed that, I got off at Bank and Slater and walked to Bank and Somerset. Stood out there at midnight with all kinds of night life. There was something going on just a bit south of that intersection that required a fire truck, ambulance and a ton of police cars crawling the streets in the vicinity.
took a long walk yesterday on an errand downtown.
Today's plans include attempting to sit for longer than two hours. I think I may have to take myself to a movie to test this. I get bored here just sitting and if I do something here at the PC my old habits of getting up frequently will kick in unconsciously.