To Walk or Not to Walk

I’ve had a pain in the butt now for 10 o r so days. It started the day after I started back at my novel. I thought I might have sat too long in a bad position for too long because that is what it felt like. It had eased up some and driving to Jacksonville didn’t seem to aggravate it After the drive to High Springs, however, it flared up again and has been bad since. It’s bad enough in the morning that I can’t put weight on my right foot. After my morning pain meds it eases enough to manage but still hurts whenever I walk or bend forward. It feels like muscle pain, not nerve pain and it is where I had my surgery. With the river walk coming up it’s got me worried about my participation.

I’m on the treadmill now testing it out and I’m going to see if a long walk helps or hurts. I guess I’ll know when I try to get out of bed tomorrow.

My lawnmower is running again. I brought it in to the shop a week and a half ago and it was repaired while I was in Jax. The problem was a stuck intake valve, something I did not know how to diagnose or fix. At least I didn’t break it worse by tinkering with it.

Besides doing laundry, some housework and catching up on paperwork, I haven’t done much in the 2 days we’ve been back home. I figured I’d take it easy on the butt and give my thumbs, which got a good rest in Jax a little more time off.

I seem to be the only one that got a picture of Jack blowing out candles on his birthday cake on Saturday. I e-mailed a low resolution shot to Kerry, copied the rest of the pictures on a CD which is now in the mail, and also hung them out on the web on Winkflash.

KITTY UPDATE—Bianca and Velcro have not shown their furry faces since we’ve returned. If they don’t show today I’m going to be concerned,