Things are not going well

[clevermanka]

Figure-eights are now off the menu, too. Vertical or horizontal. *sigh*

The hip pain and leg numbness are much worse than yesterday, and the only thing I've done different is last night I did dance drills. So I ran through them all for Dr. Jones and when I started the figure-eights, he was all "okay, that's it." I can do hip lifts and drops and shimmies, but nothing where my hips twist forward, backward, or up/down. Yeah, right.

JFC.

And I have a performance in two months? This is great. Just really fucking great.

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[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

Can't do them EVER?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

At least two weeks, possibly a month. Which gives me not enough time to practice for this gig.

Right now I'm pretty much angry at everything and I wish I kept booze at the office.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

WAHHHHH!!!
That does not make sense.
Shimmies are okay, but twisting motions not?

*sigh*
My first thought is "oh great, he's another one that doesn't understand the mechanics of dance technique" because, of course, why would he, he's a doctor, not a trainer.
But yeh, probably best to go easy until you get it healed up... and DIDN'T THE BURPEES TEACH YOU A LESSON IN NOT OVERDOING THE TRAINING?

*grin*

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Actually, he is a trainer, and his reasons for not doing twisting motions made perfect sense.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Ah. okay, I'll slink back to my corner now.

Meh, I apologize, I'm probably being overreactive today.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

'Sokay. You know I share your dislike and distrust of most docs. This guy is really good, I promise. And when you consider my problem is nerve/spinal and not muscular, the kibbosh on twisty stuff is obvious.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yup, I thought the same. But GEEBUS CRAP ON IT! Poor thing.

You can still practice the shit out of other things, and plan to do whatever at the performance itself, just not worry about practicing everything until right before. If you're in great shape and all ready with lots of other stuff, you can easily add in things you haven't done lately, right?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You can still practice the shit out of other things

No. Figure-eights are a huge portion of a belly dancer's vocabulary. It'd be like telling you to go to practice for a sparring match, but not to throw any roundhouse punches. Ever. And then expect you to go to the fight and win, despite not having incorporated those moves into any of your practice fights.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I know.
I'm being angry *with* you, not just near you. ;)

I'm sure that once the inflammation has settled down, the *gentler* lengthening stuff is GOOD for the disc issues. At least, that's been my experience, and of course, I imagine at which angle the disc is bulging makes a difference, too.

I feel the frustration. Plus, even Lady Gaga isn't shaking her lovely round butt in my supposedly animated gif, so double pisser.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

HA HA HA HA HA!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

Twisting is my nemesis, as well. It's all about the nature of the bulging/why your disc(s) are bulging in the first place (and there can be numerous mechanical reasons). I could dead lift the couch all day and not injure my back in the slightest, but once I put my back out sitting at the kitchen table, chopping onions, and twisting to the left while reaching out to dump them on a tray. And by out, I mean OUT - unable to get upright, discs bulging, the whole works; no weight, no strain, no nothing but the twist motion.

(Also once put my back out just getting in the car at Best Buy. You know how when parked in a parking lot you open your door and then twist turn to get into your seat? that's all it took)

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

oh, ouch, and ouch! I have upper back/neck herniated discs, and one of my incidents was sneezing *in bed* that sent me through the roof.

My lower back will "go out" as well, but for me, it's not disc issues but the sacro-iliac joint slipping out of place. Interestingly, I fix it myself with a couple of Flexerils, a couple of pain pills and a long walk. Walking pulls it all back into place once the spasms cease. OH, and did I mention wine or whiskey? Yah, that helps too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

Yeah, my remedy is muscle relaxants (methocarbomal), pain pills, hanging from the inversion table (probably serves the same purpose as the walk) and naps. I do naps instead of wine or wiskey; wine because I'll likely end up crying woe is me into my cup and whiskey because I can no longer drink whiskey without turning into [er, insert here someone with spasmodic mean temper since i can't think of anyone!] and wanting to cut a bitch.

All that and a "oh for fuck's sake just fuck it" mentality, otherwise I would be in despair all the time about potential limitations and the stupid idiocy of losing days of my regular life due to turning to put f'ing onions on a tray. I mean, my back went out getting into car in parking lot, went out *another* time just backing out of the driveway - twisted looking over my shoulder, you know, and that position and the tiny bump transitioning from driveway to road and that was it. Jim had to come get me out of the car because I couldn't get out of sitting position. So, that's at least twice normal car operations have been Teh Devil.

And yet, I took a 9500 mile road trip alone with the child, so fuck you Back! :D

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

All that and a "oh for fuck's sake just fuck it" mentality, otherwise I would be in despair all the time about potential limitations and the stupid idiocy of losing days of my regular life due to turning to put f'ing onions on a tray...I took a 9500 mile road trip alone with the child, so fuck you Back!

You are a superhero.

No, wait.

We are superheroes.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

Let's not forget that less than a month earlier I was hospitalized with mysterious stroke-like syptoms and the whole "migraine syndrome with hemiparesis" business. FUCK YOU BODY, I WILL NOT BE THWARTED.

repeated endlessly, otherwise you will only cry. take it from years of experience here.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

OMG, I did totally forget about that.

Jesus H.

o_O

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

RAWR me!

and, look, my back never went out and I never had any neurological Symptoms so what fool I be, had I not gone!

I'm actually kinda amazed that my back never went out at least once, at least a little, but I did also take muscle relaxers prophylactically quite a many nights before bed so maybe that helped.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Is that why you were always drooling in the morning?

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Fuck Off regimen.. good for whatever ails us.

and
Ooh, inversion.. thanks for the reminder, I need to go hang my head over the edge of the bed more often to stretch my neck out. This bowling ball on a pipestem gives me more grief than all the rest of my back combined.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Maybe we need an inversion table for 1809, too. I've been thinking that'd be good, anyway.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

No more furniture in this house. I mean...where will it go?!??!

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

You could get gravity boots for your chin-up bar?

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

How the HELL do you get into that?

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

You strap the "boots" on first, standing or sitting on the ground, they are separate from the bar/rack.

They have hooks on them, so then you grab the bar, pull your feet up to it and hook on, like a jungle gym thing, then hang upside down.

See movie American Gigolo w/ Richard Gere, he had that set-up, did hellalot for sales back then.

[renniemom.livejournal.com]

Bah. This is not good news.
Does muscle memory come into play at all? Meaning, if you are cleared in 2-3 weeks will you be able to pull it off for the untrained eyes of the masses?
I'm all about booze in the office this week.
::going to fill my water glass now::

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

if you are cleared in 2-3 weeks will you be able to pull it off for the untrained eyes of the masses?

Sure.

Will I perform as well as I want to, not having had the opportunity to practice sufficiently? No.

Was I hoping to pull out a really awesome performance for this? Yes.

Am I going to be able to? Probably not.

Edit: I'm still holding to the two-month challenge, though. Just gotta find something else to do on my movement days that were scheduled for dance drills for at least two weeks.

[miischelle.livejournal.com]

LYDIA!!!!
STOP IT!!!!


EDIT: also, I know you're terrible busy - got any free time Saturday?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I KNOW I JUST CANNOT HELP MYSELF FROM FALLING APART IT IS SO AWESOME.

Yes, I have time on Saturday and would love to see you. Email me!

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

:(
((((((((u))))))))

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

For. Real.

[grnvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I can sympathize. Hope a bit of rest provides fast fast results SOONEST!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You know it's bad when I ask a doctor "So how frequently can I ice this to facilitate the healing?"

[renniemom.livejournal.com]

Nu uh. You did not. I know better.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's bad, sister. BAD.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Well. Fuck.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yep. That was pretty much my general sentiment as well.

[hdsqrl.livejournal.com]

*quietly adds figure eights to her list of Reasons to Not Work out as well*

I swear to god, you better not get injured watching Due South or drinking any kind of alcohol, f'real. My list is already getting too long.

;)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Honey, if I get injured watching due South, it's probably going to be some sort of repetitive motion injury if-you-know-what-I-mean.

[hdsqrl.livejournal.com]

That carpal tunnel shit is a bitch. Be careful.

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

JFC, SBJ, and HMMoFG. :( I want C-Red 100% Happy Times once more!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

INORITE?

Told you guys it was all going too well to last. =/

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

I gots nuthin' but the deepest sympathy. the DEEPEST.

:;shakes head::

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[dotar-sojat.livejournal.com]

So... will this go away eventually, or is the best you can hope for to keep it under control? And is it just bad luck/misadventure, or does bellydance (or whatever) lead directly to this problem?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I ... don't know. I think it will go away? Maybe that's wishful thinking. I'll probably always be susceptible to it happening again, at the very least.

The latter question is a good one, and I think I should probably ask about that at my next PT appointment.