Day 33: Over a month gone now..... : )

Hi

It's been just over a month now, and things have improved greatly. I still get pain when walking or standing for too long, but I now am able to go though my day at work, and not experience pain, and this has helped greatly in the quality of my work. I am able to move much better, function better, bend, twist, turn, lift legs, sit, so many little things, that maybe you or anyone would not notice from looking at me, but personally I notice these things on a day-to-day basis.

I am able to wake up in the morning, and now the only thing I think about is "I wanna go back to sleep :("....LOL....I do not wake up with pain now, I get up, take a shower, get dressed for work, and do not experience any pain, it just makes great start to the day now, nothing worse than waking up and before you have got out of bed, you have to overcome pain, I do not get that now, it's an amazing feeling, and every morning I wake up and am so thankful to Pete Egoscue, and my Egoscue Therapist Matt Waters, and also to myself and my motivation and dedication, I am the one that is making time each day to perform my e-cises, I have the option of doing them or not, but I take the right option , no matter how late or how tired I am, my e-cises come before anything now!!!

On a day-to-day basis I have a pain rating of about 2, maybe a 3 somedays, the one thing that is still taking time to improve is walking, but because my posture is still out of alignment, and I still have a side shift, then it will be impossible to be pain free until these are addressed, but I am getting closer, I am not doing too much in the way of walking yet, but I keep parking my car, further from my office each day, so I have to walk further to and from the office, which is a gradual increase per day.

I do not have to see Matt until 22nd September, that is a 3 week gap now between appointments, he gave me almost a completely new set of e-cises on Monday, and I will post these up tomorrow, they are alot harder and are challenging me alot more now, but this is great news, it means that my muscles will now need to overcome this new challenge, which means they will become stronger and more flexible.

I feel a completely different person now, my life isn't always plagued by pain, don't get me wrong, I have got a long way to go, the side shift will be the last thing to change, but Matt has noticed that my left hip is starting come back down now, it was high before, but is starting to drop, and he said that in order for the side shift to change, other changes need to happen first....I've noticed I am getting a bit of discomfort on my right side of my back, just above the right hip bone, but I believe this is just a sign of changes happening in my body, I need to keep looking at the smaller improvements, and keep an eye on these, I obviously have the main goal to become completely pain free, and get rid of my side shift that I have, but in order to reach that goal, I have to set many other goals on my way, otherwise the long term goal will become more difficult to reach, you will lose sight of it, you need to set new goals each week or month to reach, and then before you know it, you will be at your final destination.....PAIN FREE :)