Life zooms
I figured out why my back was out of joint. I habitually carry Patches and Gleek on my right hip. This means the back muscles and arm muscles on that side are stronger than on the left. This muscle imbalance throws my spine out of alignment. When the chiropractor cracked all those vertebrae back into their correct locations, my muscles complained about this new order of events. They complained for 4 days until yesterday afternoon when I slung Patches onto my hip. Crack went the lower spine, and all the muscle pain went away. For me “back problem” = “causing me pain.” As far as I’m concerned I no longer have any sort of back problem. No amount of adjusting is going to make my back feel better until I correct the muscle imbalance. When my muscles are balanced, I suspect that back balance will reassert itself naturally.
Not having an achy back today was a big help since I had to bury myself in accounting work. It isn’t done yet. Tomorrow I get to run around all over the place for millions of errands. The few minutes I do get to spend at home will be spent on the phone with customer support people as I try to put the last tweaking touches onto the store so it is ready for the onslaught of preorders. Thursday will include even more accounting and then the complete reorganization of the storage room so that it is ready to hold thousands more books with accompanying shipping paraphernalia. I have so many things to do. BUT tomorrow evening I will deliberately ignore everything on the dolist and spend an evening socializing with raisinfish. The vacation will be short, but hopefully I’ll emerge less stressed.
I keep hoping life will slow down to a walking pace soon.