Today did not feel like ten hours, and I think, I think I may be falling back in love with my work. The people working there are kind and funny and professional, and eager to get me up to speed. I feel like I've landed in rose petals. Well, sterile ones, but you get my drift. No nights, no call, no weekends or holidays, only occasional late evenings. This is where experienced nurses who have been very good go after they've been beaten down for long enough.
I went through the third and last session of a research study on back pain, apparently the ideal subject to support their theory on low back pain. I have exercises to do to prevent a recurrence, this has to be a daily ritual. And it all makes perfect sense, an atrophied muscle that normally would stabilize the spine with movement, that fires late or not at all. I can change this, I can strengthen this lazy muscle. Belly rolls and back arches, and an impossible to describe sequence of four movements, not unlike the yoga cobra position.
Oh, and I spent a great deal of idle time this weekend, adding tags to this blog. After over 800 posts neglecting this feature, a daunting task. But with so much here, it seems only fair to somehow organize this mess.
3 comments:
So glad to hear that the career move has been a good one. It sounds like a dream job--good folks, great hours.
As for committing to daily physical therapy--um, exercise of a therapeutic nature--I wish you well.
Oh, hooray!!!
That sounds very like what I have done for the past twenty years to avert low-back disaster.
Yay:)
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