ladysprite | Meanwhile, In The Rest Of My Life

What am I doing, besides riding motorcycles around a parking lot?

Doing... okay, I guess. Better than I have been for a while.

The new medications the anesthesiologist prescribed are helping a lot. I've been able to cut back on my dose of NSAIDs, and I've had periods when I've been almost completely pain-free. This is, sadly, good and bad, since I am not good at keeping sedentary when I'm not in pain. Last night, motivated by how much better I was feeling, I decided to start working out again; it felt amazing while I was doing it, but about ten minutes later the pain was back as bad as it had ever been. Luckily, re-increasing the rest of my meds got it back under control.

The meds bring with them their own side effects, for which I have to take yet more meds, making me feel rather like the old lady who swallowed a fly, but it's just for another month and a half, which I can live with.

My garden is loving the weather here - days bouncing between sunny-hot and pouring rain. Our grapes already have little tiny proto-grapes on them, when we weren't expecting them to bear fruit for at least another year. We've already picked our first peapods and peppers (okay, one pepper), our tomato plants are covered in little and not-so-little green tomatoes, and we should have ripe blueberries by next week.

Summer is busy season for work for me, so I'm trying to fit in as much outside-time and social-time as I can in between working, resting to keep my pain under control, and taking care of home and pets. It's odd to feel simultaneously so busy and so sedentary.

But all in all, things are getting better. And I can imagine life will keep going in that direction....