Sweetpea’s Garden

One of the things that I have learned in my physical therapy sessions is that I am not a very good sitter. In fact, I’m so bad that, if it isn’t the entire reason I am there, it is at least a contributing factor. My therapist asked if there is any way I could not sit at work (um, no) or perhaps get up and move every 15 minutes (not if I want to get anything done).

Because of my lack of enthusiasm for the first two options, I am left with re-learning how to sit. This involves having a hand towel, rolled up and bound with athletic tape, stuffed into the small of my back when I am seated. It makes me feel like I am doing a backbend in my chair, though apparently, I look like I am sitting normally. I find it bizarre that sitting correctly feels so unnatural. Shouldn’t doing something the right way feel, well, right?

But I have to admit, it does seem to be helping. I have been sitting this way since Wednesday and my back doesn’t seem to hurt nearly as much at the end of the day.

This morning I had the first physical therapy appointment for my back problem, and now it hurts worse than ever before. Is that how it’s supposed to work? Does it get worse before it gets better? All I know is I am getting nothing done at work. I am just here, in my chair, trying to think of more comfortable ways to sit. Ow, ow, ow!

I’ve been talking for how long now (forever?) about joining a gym, but haven’t actually done anything about it. Instead, I have been finding it easier to just complain that I am not in shape.

But today, I got this via email from the benefits manager at the office. Since it is free for two weeks, I really have no excuse not to try it, do I?