Well, it's been a few days since I checked in, and I was reminded of that fact when I went in for my treatment this morning. My back has been feeling pretty good (knock on wood), with the exception of some time this weekend when it hurt like all HELL because I guess I over-did it in the kitchen or something. Something like that... I had to make a CARROT CAKE...and some homemade white bread! I have stuffing coming up here at the end of the week and you can't just use any old crappy croutons you find at the store for Thanksgiving, y'know. So...I guess standing up in the kitchen, kneading bread dough and baking for three-and-a-half hours was overdoing it.
But the back held up until the very end of all that too. However, when I finally did sit down, it was telling me about it. ALL about it too. Other than that one day when I obviously did way too much, the rest of the weekend was a pretty low pain time. I was able to do pretty much everything I needed to do and the pain never got above a 2 or 3.
Dr. Meadows has changed my exercises and I started doing some strengthening stuff on the exercise ball this weekend. They look really simple, but when you concentrate and do what you're supposed to do, they get kinda hard. But I've increased my walking to 50 minutes a day (with doctor permission, so if you're reading this, Renee, you'll know I'm still doin' what I'm told!). And that's working out fine for me.
So not much to tell, other than the fact that Dr. Meadows also said that he was going to start me on the spine force machine on my next visit...I believe that's what he said anyway. Talk to you then!
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