Hiya Darlin',
You know that for the last almost fifteen years I've been struggling with a shoulder injury from a day when I spent so long using a chainsaw that I thought I shifted something out of place, but I haven't ever been able to convince any practitioner of any kind to really help locate and solve the problem. They all wanted to treat it but no one wanted to solve it, because they didn't believe my description of what I thought was wrong. Well, I think I might finally have made some significant progress! Since my last deep tissue massage over a year ago, where the masseuse managed to shift something, and it felt better for awhile but since then it's been hurting worse for a long time, I decided I needed to try everything I could to solve the problem once and for all, or else look for a doctor when I get down to Goethe, since I will be in one place for a while. Anyway, I've been taking advantage of the available time and having the round-the-clock electricity to pull out that old hand-held shiatsu massager, and have been really going at my shoulder and my back for the last couple of weeks. I tried putting ice on it one day to see if that helped, but it only made things worse, so I got out the heating pad instead, and for the last few days I've really been putting some heat on it. Then this morning, I woke up a couple of hours before dawn, so I pulled out the massager and really went at all the tight and sore spots. Lo and behold, about an hour later, I suddenly felt something big shift in my back, and it seemed like a whole lot of the tension suddenly released. Wow! I'm not saying it's perfect yet, but it sure feels like a HUGE step in the right direction. I discovered I could now reach for something and not have to shift my shoulder to a different position to avoid the pain, which I've been doing subconsciously for a very long time now. In fact, that was the weirdest part of the day, trying to NOT shift my shoulder, and only having the tiniest bit of pain when I reach for something. What a breakthrough! I can still feel a few spots of tightness and tenderness, which is certainly to be expected considering how much I've been beating on it lately, but I feel like everything will eventually settle down in the right place and maybe even get back to pre-2009 levels, which would be absolutely fantastic! Whoo-hoo! Of course, I finally fell back to sleep and ended up getting up late again, then after awhile I saddled up Apollo for a ride. I haven't ridden him in awhile, and he seemed ready and willing, so we headed out to do the trail down to the river to the west. I had cleared most of that so that it was passable except for the very end, a short path leading down to the river itself, so when we got there, I went ahead and cleared that out while I was there. Despite the fact that we haven't had much rain for a long time, the river seemed a lot higher to me. The last time I went down that path there was a good 10 yards of beach, but today there was only about 5 or 6 feet at the widest point. Enough for Apollo to get a drink and Lola to take a swim. On the way back, Apollo, who hasn't been on any of these sections of trail in several years, found and took every shortcut he could find, even ones I wasn't sure about, and except for one trail I insisted upon, he found the shortest way home. What a navigator! Got back to camp by 4:00, rinsed him off and settled down for the evening to dinner and a movie, and my usual routine, all feeling much better about the progress I've made with my shoulder. Can't wait to see how it plays out in the next few days! Love you, sweetheart! Good night!Hiya Darlin',
You know that for the last almost fifteen years I've been struggling with a shoulder injury from a day when I spent so long using a chainsaw that I thought I shifted something out of place, but I haven't ever been able to convince any practitioner of any kind to really help locate and solve the problem. They all wanted to treat it but no one wanted to solve it, because they didn't believe my description of what I thought was wrong. Well, I think I might finally have made some significant progress! Since my last deep tissue massage over a year ago, where the masseuse managed to shift something, and it felt better for awhile but since then it's been hurting worse for a long time, I decided I needed to try everything I could to solve the problem once and for all, or else look for a doctor when I get down to Goethe, since I will be in one place for a while. Anyway, I've been taking advantage of the available time and having the round-the-clock electricity to pull out that old hand-held shiatsu massager, and have been really going at my shoulder and my back for the last couple of weeks. I tried putting ice on it one day to see if that helped, but it only made things worse, so I got out the heating pad instead, and for the last few days I've really been putting some heat on it. Then this morning, I woke up a couple of hours before dawn, so I pulled out the massager and really went at all the tight and sore spots. Lo and behold, about an hour later, I suddenly felt something big shift in my back, and it seemed like a whole lot of the tension suddenly released. Wow! I'm not saying it's perfect yet, but it sure feels like a HUGE step in the right direction. I discovered I could now reach for something and not have to shift my shoulder to a different position to avoid the pain, which I've been doing subconsciously for a very long time now. In fact, that was the weirdest part of the day, trying to NOT shift my shoulder, and only having the tiniest bit of pain when I reach for something. What a breakthrough! I can still feel a few spots of tightness and tenderness, which is certainly to be expected considering how much I've been beating on it lately, but I feel like everything will eventually settle down in the right place and maybe even get back to pre-2009 levels, which would be absolutely fantastic! Whoo-hoo! Of course, I finally fell back to sleep and ended up getting up late again, then after awhile I saddled up Apollo for a ride. I haven't ridden him in awhile, and he seemed ready and willing, so we headed out to do the trail down to the river to the west. I had cleared most of that so that it was passable except for the very end, a short path leading down to the river itself, so when we got there, I went ahead and cleared that out while I was there. Despite the fact that we haven't had much rain for a long time, the river seemed a lot higher to me. The last time I went down that path there was a good 10 yards of beach, but today there was only about 5 or 6 feet at the widest point. Enough for Apollo to get a drink and Lola to take a swim. On the way back, Apollo, who hasn't been on any of these sections of trail in several years, found and took every shortcut he could find, even ones I wasn't sure about, and except for one trail I insisted upon, he found the shortest way home. What a navigator! Got back to camp by 4:00, rinsed him off and settled down for the evening to dinner and a movie, and my usual routine, all feeling much better about the progress I've made with my shoulder. Can't wait to see how it plays out in the next few days! Love you, sweetheart! Good night!
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