Note from April 15, 2023, 2:00 PM

I’m surprised I’m only writing this today, because yesterday I had plenty of time while I was lying in bed all day. But I’m lazy and couldn’t be bothered. The story is that yesterday morning I was feeding Młoda, and since I’m sick I started coughing… and messed up something in my back. I shuffled back to bed with J.’s help. And after that I only got out of it twice to pee. It was hard for me to turn over or move, let alone get up. Basically, it was bad.

This morning my in-laws came over. My father-in-law is a masseur and came to help me. It turned out that while I was coughing, my fifth lumbar vertebra shifted and didn’t go back into the right position. Instead, it was pressing on the disc, which squeezed the whole nerve. The back massage was actually pretty pleasant, but massaging out the buttock turned out to be worse, which was necessary because the crooked vertebra also caused some issue with blood flow to the hips, or legs, or whatever… In any case, it was very unpleasant. Along the way I discovered that I get similar pain in the same buttock more often, it’s just rarely that intense. I’m not supposed to sit with one leg crossed over the other or with one leg tucked under me, so I don’t twist my spine like that. We’ll see how that goes, because I sit a lot, and I’ve had those habits for a long time.