There Comes A Time...

There comes a time when one realizes a lot of different things, one of them being that getting older is no fun!

Previous to my retirement, I kept my laptop on the eating area table adjacent to the family room so that I could be in same general area as my husband and to also be able to watch TV on the 'big screen' that is in the family room. 

Being that I was going to be on the computer here at home more frequently now that I was retired, and wanting to concentrate more deeply on what I was researching online with fewer interruptions, I moved my laptop to the desk in the den.

There I spent my days in my 'woman cave', researching and chatting with friends online, both old an new, practicing my Spanish, with the smaller TV providing background noise to keep me company.  It was a happy arrangement for quite awhile.

That is until I woke up one morning last week with pain in my lower back.  My husband thought that it had something to do with sitting at the desk that I wasn't used to.  I poo poo'd his opinion stating that I didn't see how that could be it as hadn't I just retired from a desk job that I had held for over 11 years, never once having had the same problem??

As my back pain wasn't getting any better, and in fact, seemed worse, I began to think that he could be right.  I moved the computer back to the little dining area off the kitchen and placed a heating pad on the back of the chair to help with easing the pain.

Yesterday I actually felt that it was getting better and that I would just have to keep the computer here where it didn't seem to bother my back.  My husband had adjusted the chair in the den to a higher level, thinking that it would help, but I am not ready to test his theory out yet.

So, I decided to take a break from computing and we rented a few movies to watch for a break.  I spent the whole day sitting on the sofa, watching movies and thinking that I would wake up painless this morning...  Wrong!  I woke up this morning in even worse shape than previously!  It appears that I am going to have to continue sitting at my makeshift desk with my heating pad until I am completely pain free.

Fortunately, I am close enough to the kitchen where I can easily get to the ibuprofen and get something to drink to wash them down with - it's only a short crawl...