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Shooting stars, shooting pains
Apr. 9th, 2025 11:57 pmWe had lovely weather today, and after I’d walked as far as the middle school, I decided to go look at the wildflowers in the woods between the middle school and elementary school. So many! We had erythroniums (pale yellow lilies), cynoglossums (pretty little blue flowers on a larger plant), white trilliums, and the purple camas when I got out of the woods into the tiny bit of prairie next to the playground. On the way back, I looked for the shooting stars that had been destroyed a few years ago when workers “cleaned up” the woods… and they were back! One of the plants was in bloom. Terrific!
At this point, I had carefully walked for nearly a mile without any problem from the sciatica (which had gone away for six weeks but returned about a month ago), and I decided to take a very flat route back to minimize further problems, so I went on the sidewalk rather than across the turf field. This seemed fine, although my leg started to feel tired, but then when I was half a mile from home I made the mistake of turning while walking to look at the moon rising over the forest. Big mistake. J was at sword class and couldn’t come fetch me, and it didn’t seem like a big enough deal for phoning D, but it took me quite a while to get home. I ended up figuring out a sort of limp that involved small steps, having my left leg do most of the work, and trying to keep my body as symmetrical as possible, but the changes in elevation in the Safeway parking lot were… not great. Once I got home and took my shoes off I was fine, although my left leg felt very tired and still does. I realized belatedly that I should have taken off my shoes while walking – maybe it would have helped? I’ve never had sciatica while at home and barefoot.
( ”Sciatica )
At this point, I had carefully walked for nearly a mile without any problem from the sciatica (which had gone away for six weeks but returned about a month ago), and I decided to take a very flat route back to minimize further problems, so I went on the sidewalk rather than across the turf field. This seemed fine, although my leg started to feel tired, but then when I was half a mile from home I made the mistake of turning while walking to look at the moon rising over the forest. Big mistake. J was at sword class and couldn’t come fetch me, and it didn’t seem like a big enough deal for phoning D, but it took me quite a while to get home. I ended up figuring out a sort of limp that involved small steps, having my left leg do most of the work, and trying to keep my body as symmetrical as possible, but the changes in elevation in the Safeway parking lot were… not great. Once I got home and took my shoes off I was fine, although my left leg felt very tired and still does. I realized belatedly that I should have taken off my shoes while walking – maybe it would have helped? I’ve never had sciatica while at home and barefoot.
( ”Sciatica )