Managing Energy

 

If it was 'easy', everyone would be doing it...

Yesterday I got the appointment for the next injection into my lumbar back.  The best they could fit me in was in about 2 weeks.

I'm an 'old hand' at managing my symptoms and energy, but I am, quite frankly, running on empty after months (years) of chronic pain.

That said, I can pretty confidently say that the alternate B12 supplement is actually proving to be helpful - for the peripheral neuropathy.

The problem is that I have another equally awful issue that results in nearly identical symptoms - nerve pain in my right foot.  I fell a number of years ago and made a one point landing on the right SI joint.  It appears that the impact of hitting the ground damaged the SI joint.  In addition to that, I have a problem with the spinal column being pinched because there are a couple of discs that have deteriorated.  Same symptoms.

Which I suppose has been one of the big problems getting my body the help it needs - 3 conditions, sharing the 'same' symptom.  All leading to chronic nerve pain.

Just as I was beginning to feel 'better' due to the reduction in peripheral neuropathy, the steroid injections in my back started to wear off.  It took a couple weeks to realize what was happening, and then to phone the clinic to request another appointment for the injections.  Thankfully I only have to wait a little under two weeks.

But today when I tried to weave I realized that maybe, just maybe, weaving is not the best thing to be doing.  My usual pain mitigations are not working very well.  

OTOH, I finally am feeling somewhat better, and I've been making slow progress on the current warp and I really, really want to finish this warp off - because it has some issues.  Issues because I tried to use up some old yarn and wound up with lots of knots in the warp.  Which means I have to keep stopping and fix another knot.  It's not much fun and I'd like to finish the warp and move on to the next, hopefully with more enjoyment and less irritation.

After thinking I had a tonne of yarn, it's not going quite as far as I was expecting, mainly because I hadn't done the math.  But what *that* means is that I actually have a hope of using up some of this very nice (and expensive) yarn in my lifetime.  I doubt I'll actually use the really fine stuff, I'm having way too much trouble seeing the fine stuff nowadays.

But it looks like I can make a few silk warps and have a small range of silk scarves for the sales in the fall.  And empty a couple more bins, clear some shelf space.

And hope that the jabs work well so I can have a couple of months of pain I can manage and still weave.

In the meantime, the pain roller coaster continues, but with shallower ups and downs.  And I'll take that, with gratitude (while being impatient about having to wait for the next injections - what can I say?  I'm still working on that 'patience' thing...)