Apo9... I feel your pain. I've been battling back pain off and on for a long time now. I hope you find some relief soon. I recommend ice! It's on my back now.

I had my first laser treatment yesterday. I didn't know I couldn't exercise after for a couple days..... I've got extra time today now. Might do some retail therapy! Also going to brunch with a meetup group. I went to one meetup with this group a few months ago so it will basically be like meeting everyone again. Hopefully I can fight off my shyness!

Weight is pretty good but they may/will change after today!

Taking the week off of exercise has caught up to me. My weight is back up a bit this morning...and I'm not looking forward to getting up early again tomorrow. This may have been a bad decision on my part. But if I don't get up at 4 AM I cannot fit in any type of exercise during the day. Right now the little voice in my head says I shouldn't get up because it might wake my son because his room is across the hall from our exercise room. That's stupid, though. He sleeps through anything.

Allison, didn't he tell you the other week that he can't hear anything? He couldn't hear the television, I seem to remember.

apo9, you had posted about feeling guilty about not working so much, and now you have sciatica bad enough to make you faint, and you are... going to work??!

Really, this is the time not to go to work if ever there was one. Please put yourself first! I guarantee you that the world will not end if you're not there.

Did a 34 mile bike ride yesterday (3rd time I've done that one but I really had trouble keeping up) and then a 52 mile bike ride today. The first 24 miles were brutal - tons of hills (if you can call Florida hills "hills"). I still like running more than biking, but the biking is really growing on me. You can do it for hours whereas running I can only do 45 mins - 1 hour.

My weight is right on target with all this exercise. Still a little obsessive about exercising I suppose. And still can't believe I am because I had never exercised before 2 years ago. It is hard to eat back as many calories as you burn up with all this! I don't feel hungry (and DH says he doesn't either - he bikes with me) after biking so long.

Agreed to teach one more time at the adjunct job - March-May. My first class on Thursday for this 8 week session and it turned out to be a great group of students so far!

Tomorrow is a holiday for my school and I'm way behind at home from all this biking. I am thinking after DD graduates I may hire a cleaning service. Had one years ago when I worked in a much higher paying job than teaching and kids were little. Then when I went to teaching, dropped it. Think that time is returning! I'm just not keeping up with cleaning, and I don't want to. It's more fun to bike, run and anything else!

I cant believe what a difference a day makes.I took some naproxen and tylenol this morning before work and was able to work the whole day.There were occasional twinges,but nothing like the pain I had upon awakening.I did not need any pain meds all day.We will see what tomorrow brings.I know I was stupid to go to work the other day after fainting but I only stayed for 1/2 hr till a relief person came.

Good for you, apo9. I hope your pain stays at bay!

Sharon Dh and I fought about cleaning for months after moving in together 17 years ago. I finally put my foot down and told him I was hiring cleaners. He whined about how much it would cost and "invasion of privacy" and I told him to .

We've had the same lovely people come every two weeks for 11 years (we moved out of their service area for 6 years and had to get other cleaners who were not as good or reliable) and I can't believe how freeing it is to not have to think about this task.

Now if I could only afford to have someone who would act as housekeeper and oversee/run the household I would be on . I am a firm believer in sharing out the housework to anyone who will take it on.

Dagmar

Me, too, Dagmar. If the best anybody can say about me at my funeral is, "She kept a clean house", I will smite them. Besides, I can't take the credit for it. I get struck by a cleaning mood about once a year, and then look out. Otherwise, nope, maintenance cleaning is a task best left to anybody else. I remember early in my marriage when if we would fight, I would go for a long walk and he would furiously clean - I mean, to like operating room type of clean. Those days are LONG gone.

I occasionally buy lottery tickets for the express fantasy of a butler, housekeeper, chef, and gardener. See, I need to win - because I WILL provide jobs.

Birchy~yes, you are correct, he said he didn't hear it. But apparently my decision to not work out this morning rubbed off on DH who didn't work out either.

I will tomorrow.

I was looking forward to this 3-day weekend so much... to go for a run every morning in daylight (what a luxury) instead of dodging traffic in the dark, prepare and make actual meals, then work at home to start catching up on my deadlines.

Saturday went down like that, and it was great. Yesterday morning my husband fell mountain biking and broke his collarbone, badly. So the day was spent in the ER, then they sent him home in a sling in the PM. We were up all night; the ends of the fracture are both pushing up on the skin, sharply, and it's worrisome that it will open. We're waiting to hear back from the ortho surgeon this morning; the ER physician said probably surgery. So much for the weekend - work, sleep, exercise, all of it.

I sound horribly unsympathetic, I know; only my online friends get to see this lovely side of me But seriously, he's 43 and he was launching off some massive jump like a teenager.

Ow! That sounds just awful. Sorry for him and for your weekend getting derailed.

Oh, ouch! Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your husband, JayZee.

The best laid plans...

Thanks ladies. I just spent three hours on the phone; bottom line is that no one will see him today (ortho "emergencies" only on the holiday). So another 24 hours of his pain, and my anxiety about this displaced fracture becoming even more so. Even small movement seems to shift it a bit. We managed an attempt at showering since he was filthy from the fall - I hope I didn't make it worse but it seemed like a good idea.

He has pain meds, doesn't he, JayZeeJay? He should. He should also have his arm in a sling and avoid moving it around. I'm sure you know all this...

My sister broke her clavicle once when she was thrown from a horse. They didn't try to align the bones ends, just left them overlapped. But from what I can see from looking at ortho sites, that has changed.

Good luck!