I think I walked too much this week. They were fixing the sprinkler system in the underground parking so we had to move our vehicles out in the daytime for 2 days and of course there wasn’t any open street parking really close. My car was only a blockish away but it seems to be enough to have aggravated my lower spine. It started hurting in the afternoon and rather than resting which is what I would normally do, I had to go and get my car and pick up my groceries(curb-side pickup) and cart them in and put them away. The pain increased doing all this.

I went to bed in pain and naturally slept worse than I normally do. I had an internal conversation with myself this morning reasoning against taking a pain pill. All the standard stuff, it’s just a sore muscle, if I rest it’ll go away, I’m stronger than the pain… You get the idea. This went on for about an hour before I finally took a pain pill. I have METS in my lower spine and pelvis and from experience know that they’re hurting me again, it isn’t a messed up muscle.

I’d forgotten what this was like, this level of pain. I’ve been living with twinges and low grade, easy to deal with pain for a while and it’s been nice. I haven’t needed any pain pills. I’ve been able to manage the pain without them. Until today. I’m really hoping this goes away, that I just walked too much because walking too much has always aggravated the pain but I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s back to stay and I’ll need to adjust to it. I don’t want to. I’m not ready to.