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Argh! Cobbles!
Sep. 5th, 2015 04:50 pmBugger, Athenian cobbles seem to have sensitized my back to Rochester cobbles. Just my normal Saturday trip into town for lunch (unfortunately I was the only one out today) had me gasping in pain. I'm actually at pre-Butrans levels of pain - even though I've have the new Butrans patch on for the last 24 hours - for the first time in ages and I'm not enjoying the reminder. I rolled down into town from where I parked, but that was probably a bad idea as I then had to sit through my meal feeling distinctly off - it's a bad sign when you're gasping sitting still. Coming back I just couldn't face pushing uphill on the cobbles*, so got out and waddled with the chair as a walker, the only bit I pushed for was the roughly level/marginally downhill tarmac path through the Vines (small park).
I had a look at Google Earth last night and my two trips into Athens city centre were both roughly 2.5 miles or so (I was going to say 2 miles, then realised I was still working in Nautical Miles!), that makes them comfortably the longest distance I've ever pushed in one go. I might have expected a little reaction to that anyway, but the fact it's lumbar spine and hips rather than shoulders and arms says it's the surface was the problem, not the distance.
I was planning a trip up to Durham, with the end of this coming week as a possible travel date, but I think I need to avoid pushing things so I'll push that off until later in the month, there's no sense going up to see Dad if I'm not physically well enough to get to the nursing home from the house. (I had assumed there was a fair likelihood this would be the situation, so there shouldn't be any issues with the rest of the family expecting me to hold to a specific date - in fact they were likely convinced there was no hope I would make the earlier date).
I had an interesting observation in an email from one of the friends I was on holiday with, saying he felt I was noticably more awkward in moving about than in previous years. He hasn't seen me in a couple of years, so it might just be lack of a recent reminder, or it might be a consequence of using the sticks and AFOs versus crutches, or he might be seeing something I'm missing through familiarity and not seeing gradual change. I've prodded for a more detailed explanation.
* Actually the bits I was going over are primarily bricked road and paving, rather than true cobbles, so nowhere near as bad as the sharpened cobbles of Ermou.
I had a look at Google Earth last night and my two trips into Athens city centre were both roughly 2.5 miles or so (I was going to say 2 miles, then realised I was still working in Nautical Miles!), that makes them comfortably the longest distance I've ever pushed in one go. I might have expected a little reaction to that anyway, but the fact it's lumbar spine and hips rather than shoulders and arms says it's the surface was the problem, not the distance.
I was planning a trip up to Durham, with the end of this coming week as a possible travel date, but I think I need to avoid pushing things so I'll push that off until later in the month, there's no sense going up to see Dad if I'm not physically well enough to get to the nursing home from the house. (I had assumed there was a fair likelihood this would be the situation, so there shouldn't be any issues with the rest of the family expecting me to hold to a specific date - in fact they were likely convinced there was no hope I would make the earlier date).
I had an interesting observation in an email from one of the friends I was on holiday with, saying he felt I was noticably more awkward in moving about than in previous years. He hasn't seen me in a couple of years, so it might just be lack of a recent reminder, or it might be a consequence of using the sticks and AFOs versus crutches, or he might be seeing something I'm missing through familiarity and not seeing gradual change. I've prodded for a more detailed explanation.
* Actually the bits I was going over are primarily bricked road and paving, rather than true cobbles, so nowhere near as bad as the sharpened cobbles of Ermou.
