I’m going to guess that you all know what I’m talking about by now when I talk about my mystery hip pain – the one that bothered me on and off for a couple of years for reasons no one could work out, but, somehow, some acupuncture sessions got rid of? Yeah, I know, I’m sick of hearing myself talk about it too.
Well, I have news.
I fell over the other day and now it seems to be back.
Do any of you find that your arms/legs/insertotherbodypartshere just don’t want to work when you’re tired?
I get that with my legs sometimes, (it happened on Saturday), and it’s so weird.
I make all the movements that I need to make, and I can feel thee muscles flickering and doing their best work, but my legs just don’t want to work how they should. Sometimes they will move, but a lot slower than I want them to and other times they just will not do what I want and do a much small movement.
I get it a lot after long car rides, which makes getting out of the car again all kinds of fun. but on Saturday night it was just because I needed to get to bed after a long day. I was out at a friend’s birthday party that night and I only have my walking frame Ivy with me so I left early so that I could make the five or ten minute walk from my friend’s house to my boyfriend’s flat before I got too tired. I know that I could have just ordered a taxi but I didn’t want to do that because I wanted to see if I could wake my legs up a bit. They felt really heavy and I knew I’d get a better night’s sleep if I made them work a little bit first.
Do any of you get this sometimes? Does it feel strange to you? How do you explain it to to other people. I guess the best way that I can think to explain to other people is that it’s like there’s a fault or a time delay between my thoughts and my muscles.
There was a time when I thought I’d never be able to say this, but I’m finally feeling pain-free enough to get back to doing Zumba again! Of course, I adapt and modify the routines on my DVDs and games depending on how I’m feeling cerebral palsy wise, but it feels amazing to be back to it!
When I first got into it after my family bought a wii game for my sister about three years ago, it didn’t take me long to get hooked, because I can do it in sitting, standing or kneeling. However, with my hip pain that was bothering me quite a lot before my acupuncture sessions, and my various back pains, I haven’t done much of it over the last year or so, and the main bulk of my exercise has been walking around town instead.
I’ve always like working out at the gym but I liked Zumba even more because I can do it without anyone helping me, (I struggle getting on and off gym equipment by myself), and I can do it at my own time and pace.
I’m pretty sure I look like a fool doing Zumba, but I find it so much fun that I don’t really care if I’m honest. Plus, I do it all at home so that I can do as much or as little as I feel like without having the pressures of wanting to try keep up with a class full of people. That, and if I do it standing up at home, I can do it in front of the sofa so that I have a soft landing if I fall.
You may have noticed that I’ve felt in a bit of a rut lately with my anxiety and low moods, but being able to do some Zumba, along with a bit of sunshine, is starting to make me feel a lot more settled within myself.
I’ve even started to clear out my room today, and that’s quite a taxing workout in itself, believe me!
It feels like it’s been too long since I posted here. You probably don’t think that but it feels that way to me. More and more of my time is being taken up by an endless cycle of editing my writing that I’m not even sure will ever be good enough, reading books that I’m counting as research for said writing, and making sure that I spend time with friends and family. I’m loving it, but I’d like to do more, more editing, more reading, more family and friend, more blogging, more YouTube video making.
It’s fair to say that this blog has taken a bit of a backseat of late. Sorry about that. I haven’t forgotten about it, or about any of you that come and read it. I think about View From a Walking Frame all the time.
The thing is, I feel in a pretty good place with my writing at the moment, and I’m never sure how much I should talk about on here because I know a lot of you come here for cerebral palsy related posts. But a lot of you probably know that I really want to be a published author one day, and I’m working on a novel that I’m actually really excited about. I’ve been working on this particular one for about 3 and a half years, but over the last year or so, I’ve made really good progress with it. I’ve almost got a full draft that I’m happy with. I know that after that there’ll be lots of editing to do, even though I’ve been doing a lot of it as I’ve been going along.
I’ve not forgotten about you all, though, and I can start posting about that a lot more on here if you think you’d like that.
When I wrote my last post I was in rather a lot of pain in my back and chest (muscular pain). It had been bothering me for a couple of weeks, but I’m pleased to say that over the course of the weekend it seems to have settled down and gone away. I’m not sure what I did to get it to go away, but obviously I’m pleased it has!
Now I just have to try make sure it doesn’t come back for a while, although it does that sometimes, but this was the worst bout of that type of pain that I’ve had for ages, and I’m definitely glad to have a break from it.
viewfromawalkingframe 