Born to be Wild

Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our wayYeah, darlin’ gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Born to be wild….

Well, quite a lot has changed in such a short while! As regular readers know, I’ve been stuck to my heating pad for a little over a week with severe back pain. Today, I finally got in to see my physiotherapist. I was terrified to go. Because I was terrified of what he was going to tell me. You see, when my Mom was my age, she helped to push a car out of our driveway…and wound up off work for EIGHT months!! That simply isn’t doable for my family…but that’s the worst case scenario my brain went to!

And then my beautiful physiotherapist changed my world! I had been counting down the minutes until my appointment and was so filled with hope and excitement…and tried to put the terrified thoughts out of my brain. Turns out, I did a pretty good job on my upper lats and lower traps! Don’t I just sound so ‘in the know’…it’s a farce. I googled it and lats stands for latissimus dorsi and traps stands for trapezius!

We suspect I pulled those muscles Thanksgiving weekend, then made the problem much worse by driving back and forth to Yarmouth within 24 hours then spend a 12 hour day doing data entry! That caused my back muscles to scream out loud, enough is enough! And leave me alternating between sitting and laying and half laying on the couch for a damn week!!

But guess what? I’m not going to follow in my mother’s footsteps on this one! And it’s probably the only time I’ll say that line followed by a YIPEEEE!!! He thinks I should be relatively easy to fix…and it should only take a few weeks, if I follow his advice! Which, I will to a T!

First things first, I am allowed to drive again! You have no idea how trapped you are when you can’t drive…until you can’t drive for a bit! I was VERY lucky! I had friends (and Daddio)who dropped off food and picked up my grocery order and did my post office run and went to the pharmacy and brought my computer and even offered to come clean my house!! Friends are amazing!! And that doesn’t even factor in the dozens of text messages and phone calls and fb messenger posts I received from friends and family around the world! But getting to re-enter the world again? That just sounds like heaven right about now! I can’t go crazy or anything, he said driving in increments of 15 minutes would be okay, but to leave any distance driving for the time being. But 15 minutes at least gets me to work and to the grocery store and to my Mom & Dad’s. Those are the only three places I really go anyway!

Second of all, I have multitudes of exercises I must complete but he expects that within just a few weeks, I should be feeling much better! Sweet relief!! And I should be changing up my positions every hour…seating, semi seated, laying down, with a little walk about in between. That seems doable!

The last week hasn’t been all bad. It has given me time to rest when that has been pretty rare the last while; and it has given me plenty of time to reevaluate priorities in life. I’m starting to understand why so many people have left their jobs post-covid; cause they had time to really think about where they are and what they want to do with the remaining time on this earth. I’m not leaving my job or anything hahaha but some things are going to be different moving forward. Imagine finding life’s lessons from the couch…that sounds like a book title, “Life’s Lessons From the Couch” haha. Who knows? Maybe I’ll write a book?!

I’m still riding the high from the good physio appointment…and excited about getting back into real life tomorrow. Even though I know it will be baby steps, a well rested, de-stressed version of myself will be showing up at work tomorrow. I may not be born to be wild quite yet…but I’m well on the way!! I hope your week is going well, dear reader…and that you have the opportunity to spend a minute reflecting on life’s biggest priorities!!