Duvet day

I have been dreaming about a ‘duvet day’ of late. And I was granted one in a very unexpected way today. Not in a happy unexpected way, but still.

This morning was the usual chaos, but we were ahead of schedule for a change. Until I bent over to grab my phone off the couch. And my back made this rather uncomfortable little twinge thingy. Fast forward to me in tears of agony by the time we got to the school, unable to even bend to help Daniel out of the car. I have never had problems with my back so this was quite a shocker!

Of course I thought my Pilates guru would be able to sort it out (as I was on my way to a lesson), until I realised how damn far the floor was all of a sudden. And that, once there, I wasn’t getting up in any hurry.  Not without crying at least.

One frantic phone call to the Chiropractor (the fabulous husband of our Homeopath) who knew exactly what was wrong and prescribed a bag of frozen peas wrapped in foil, under my back where it hurt the most for 15 minutes every hour. And absolutely no heat. And of course, me being as A-type as they come, my first thoughts were: what type of peas and which brand of foil. Which I battled to get to in the shops that I stupidly drove to as of course it is all on the bottom shelf. And then I dropped my car key at the pharmacy and stood there, looking at it, completely powerless and with tears in my eyes, until the pharmacist took pity on me and offered to walk around the counter and pick them up for me.

I spent the first 2 hours on the floor with my bag of frozen (baby)peas and (heavy-duty) foil as instructed and then moved to bed. After the 3^rd session I could feel the difference i.e. I could lift my pelvis to remove the peas without crying.

I’m feeling a lot better tonight, still can’t bend down, but hopefully tomorrow will be better! I felt so bad lying in bed watching hubby and the kids run in circles on the trampoline and playing!

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!