Word to the wise in back surgery recovery, avoid catching a cough. Sudden repeated and unpredictable contractions of core muscles does not make for a happy healing process. My back feels more like it did back in February strength and stamina wise lately. This is a source of serious frustration when there's play and sex to be had. On more than one occasion this week, I caught myself "muscling through" pain or exhaustion that really should have been acknowledged and addressed. As soon as I figured out that it was about the cough and not a random back slide, it's been easier to be nice to myself (and admit to others that I'm not as strong as I was a week or two ago).
Also, if NRE were predicted in a Rob Brezsny horoscope, this is what it would look like:
"The planets are conspiring to unleash energies that will touch you in ways you didn't realize you needed to be touched. Any minute now you may begin to feel a pleasurable burning sensation in your soft underbelly, or a prickly wake-up call in your willpower, or a ticklish electricity running through your funny bone. What does it all mean? Maybe nothing. Or maybe it means so much that you can't possibly analyze its meaning. What a valuable gift that would be! When is the last time you felt free of the need to have to understand everything?"
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coughing = bad
coughing + sneezing = Very Bad
At least one of he docs at UW ER didn't grok that when I showed up after two days of near-constant coughing a couple of years ago. Thankfully, the attending *did*.
(and you know, there's just /nothing else/ that uses those muscles the same way. No matter how much Core I do, more than an occasional cough with still wipe me out. Hopefully you won't have that as an issue.
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