I've been having some pain too. I think a lot of it is actually a lack of exercise. Which I'm trying to start doing. I was thwarted in my attempt today.

I was going to start going to the same place that I've been doing PT at. I finished PT on friday, and was going to start their wellness program. ($30/month and can use any of their machines I want to use, except for the electro-stim machine).

I was supposed to be there for the orientation for it at 2pm. Took my mom out for lunch, and while we were sitting there, she casually mentioned that she didn't like it that she couldn't see well out of her left eye. (WHAT!?) I asked when that started, and she said "oh...last night" (again...WHAT?!?) She's just now mentioning it?

The last time she had a vision problem was last summer when she got West Nile virus. The day after she started having that vision problem (diplopia/double vision) she went to the hospital and went into a coma for a couple of weeks. So, naturally I panicked a bit. Called my dad at home and told him what my mom just said. So, he got her an appointment this afternoon, and I ended up cancelling my appointment for the wellness program orientation because he had to take her to the eye doctor.

I can't drive my car at the moment. Partially because it's a stick shift and I'm not sure I can drive it with the way my legs have been feeling lately, and partially because it's dead. (my car thinks I don't love it anymore. The battery died of loneliness) I had to let my dad take the van, since mom's eyes are more important than me walking on a treadmill for ten or fifteen minutes. I can do that on wednesday.

So, this afternoon, I'm doing the exercises that I learned at PT here at home. I also found an easy way to use our exercise bike. It's kind of hard to get onto the bike the normal way (it's a recumbent bike, and lifting one leg over the side of the bike is uncomfortable) I took my computer chair into the room the bike is in, and parked it in front of the bike where the pedals are. Then I sat down on the chair and put my feet on the pedals and pedaled the bike. It's kind of backwards, but the bike doesn't care if you're pedaling forwards or backwards. I don't get to use handlebars, and I had to make sure my computer chair was locked so it didn't tip backwards, but it worked.

I pedaled on it for a couple of minutes, since it's the first time I've attempted that. I'm hoping if I do that at least three or four times a week, that it'll help. Hoping I can move up on how many minutes I can sit there and do that. Plus, hoping that I can sit normally on the bike eventually.

I really think that a lot of my pain is just from sitting too much. I have a lot of fatigue, so it's kind of easy to just sit here. I need to try to do things that make me move around and make the muscles actually do things.