Not Again!

I was going to write you three posts tonight, to get us through the beginning of the week.  Oh, it was such a plan!  I had a progress photo to show you and a stash enhancement, because I just couldn't wait, and a little random thing that you might find moderately interesting (in a hmmm.... interesting and move along sort of way).  The laptop?  It has its own ideas, apparently.  I'm thinking I may have gotten a virus this evening and now I get nothing from the laptop.  I can't even run my anti-virus program.  Such a bummer.  Well, certainly worse things have happened to people, even my family this week, so lack of a laptop that I can load photos to and post from is pretty minor.  Remember I said that, I'm sure I'll need reminding sometime, maybe soon.  I just don't want to think that I will be shopping for a laptop this weekend.  There are other things that I would much rather be doing.  There are other things I would much rather spend my money on.  I'm probably limited to a PC.  Sort of ironic when all of my girls have Macs.  It just doesn't seem right, does it?   

There is a better news department around here though.  It appears that my injury, while probably precipitated by my never-healing ankle, is a lower back, piriformus muscle issue (I have Deep Buttock Syndrome! Who knew?!), not a new thing for me, and it is responding well to the miracle worker physical therapist and her magic hands.  Yesterday I could barely walk, certainly not without pain, but today I can even take the stairs right over left, left over right.  Hallelujah!  I may be taking short runs as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday!  

Now I am going to bed, because my momma always told me that healing needs resting.  Plus it is downright chilly in this house, and the bed should be warmed up by now.   Pete went to bed an hour ago.  He is my own personal heated mattress pad or hot water bottle for the feet.  I'll only feel a teensy bit bad for him when I stick the ice cubes I call hands under his armpits to thaw.  It is amazing what the human body can endure, now when I do that he only jumps a few inches and barely wakes up!

Sixteen.  I'm running out of ideas, so tell me.  What are you doing to keep warm?   

Comments

[Dianna]

I personally like to stick my cold feet up along the back of my 100 lb half-grown puppy. Speaks for the fact that I don't share my bed with any human these days, but it works for me! And wool - can't forget the wool!

[pumpkinmama]

Does the fact that I giggled when I read "deep buttock" make me worse than a preteen boy? Probably.

Glad you're on the road to recovery.

[Manise]

I take my Bucky "hot water bottle" shaped pillow to bed after microwaving it. Sometimes I put it in the bed to warm up my side while I brush my teeth or I just grin and bear it those first 5 minutes as the Bucky warms me up. My husband would swat at me in his sleep if I did what you do. Glad to hear you are on the mend.

[margene]

That damn piriformus muscle! Mine can be a bother, too. When I'm cold I wrap a shawl around my neck (you know the one) and put on hand knit mitts.

[CyndiG]

We keep Dale of Norway wool blankets on the couches and wrap up in them: very effective! And we have a bunch of them ... so that it takes us awhile to notice that the girls are slowly spiriting them away up to their bedrooms!

[Lynn]

Deep Buttock Syndrome?! Do you even have buttocks deep enough to host a syndrome in there?

Only you, Terry, only you.

[Vicki]

I have a similar "personal warmer" -- though I have to watch it because these days I can go from cold to ON FIRE in a split-second (and not in any kind of good way). My personal warmer is occasionally augmented by any combination of three cats and a dog -- never all three cats at once, though. It can be a pretty full bed!

[Renee]

I throw a blanket in the dryer until it's good and hot and then rush into bed with it. Warms me from top to bottom. My husband isn't very tolerant of my ice cube hands and feet...

[jill]

I got a small electric lap blanket at Target a few years ago. In the winter it's my laptop's companion. Where one is you will find the other. This morning, however, with you as my role model, I had a cup of tea rather than coffee...hmm, good, but....heading out for coffee with my guy right now!

[Nora]

Huh. I wonder if I have one of those muscles?

[Kim]

Ouch on all accounts! I hope that you mend soon!