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[serene]

Well, the pathetitude* here has gone up a notch, but finally, I'm comfy.

For the past three or four days, I've been in a lot of pain, enough that the only real way I can be comfortable is to alternate between sitting on the recliner (which, while it is mine, has become wtfpotatoes's "comfy zonez!", so I'm grateful to her for giving it up for a few days) and walking around doing stuff. Lying down is too painful for words; sitting in a straightbacked chair is tolerable for short periods. Walking is painful and exhausting, but it seems to help in the long run. Still, I walked around three miles already today, and there's only so much walking a person can do while battling fatigue and pain at the same time.

Anyway, today, someotherguy took me down to the office store and used the company AmEx to buy me a wireless keyboard and mouse. So now, between the wireless setup, the HUGE monitor, the cool Ubuntu ability to zoom in on any browser window really clearly, and my utterly pathetic act of pulling the recliner up to the computer desk (remember those days, TOTGA?), I am finally comfortable.

Go Team Pathetic!

(*note for the sarcasm-impaired: I am actually quite proud of myself and my partner for finding an accommodation for my disabling pain, and don't think it's pathetic at all, except in an amusing way.)

Comments

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I had no idea it had gotten this bad for you! I am so sorry to hear it. But you clearly just have the most awesome people in your life. And remember, the only common element in all your relationships is you. :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I'm really truly fine for months on end -- maybe a little creaky, but nothing major, and then something will flare up and I can barely move. I have tried to nail down what causes it -- I've ruled out dairy and the weather, I think. It's just baffling, more than anything else. Well, that and so so so tiring.

But thanks, sweet one. I do count my amazing family as my reward for living right.

Or something. :-)

[loracs.livejournal.com]

If you need anything that I can help with, call me. I'm sorry you're still in so much pain. Maybe you haven't hit on the right cause, or it's entirely possible that what triggers it is so random or so out of your control that you'll never know. Did the doctor look at some possible causes - I can't remember if he did. I know a lot of your doctor time/energy/$$ has been focused on the thyroid thing, so I completely understand if something that comes and goes (esp. when it's in the gone phase) gets pushed off the plate.

Hope it is a go, going, gone pain real, real soon.
*hugs*

[charlottezweb.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry. Bleah. I hope the pain fades quickly and I'm impressed with y'all's quick accommodations--I'm trying to think of a less horrible word than proactive but I guess I just mean taking control--it's inspiring.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Damn, I need a recliner!!

What kind is yours?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Old fabric one that sogwife got for me on Freecycle. With my feet up, I get some relief from my hips and lower back. It's really the only time I'm truly comfortable.

(I've been wanting one since I moved in with cute-poet-chick, but she hated the idea. So did someotherguy, but he hated serene-in-pain even more.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh, ouchy ouch. I'm glad you're well cared for. You spend a lot of time taking care of others.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

Hooray for rearranging your environment for comfortable Internet surfing. I've always wondered about the possibility of doing some kind of setup on a recumbent exercise bike for Netsurfing. duct-taping the keyboard doesn't work very well, and nowhere to put the mouse. Using a laptop is a possibility, but you don't want to duct-tape a laptop to anything.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

That's what I have, and it makes for a wonderful, solid, padded, comfortable chair that will let me put my feet up and also have people sitting on my lap without tipping over, but it's only every few years or so that I remember that I can also pedal on it, oh well! When I would pedal and do computer things at the same time, though, I had the keyboard on a table to my left (I do a lot of one-handed typing anyway, with food or other things in the other hand), and the mouse on a pull-out surface on my right. I also have the sides of my desk up on planter boxes, so that my desk is high enough for the pedaling end of the bike to fit underneath.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

.jpg?

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, maybe I can take a good picture of it in the daylight tomorrow, though there's so much junk piled up all around it right now that I don't think it will look too good! I'll see if I have any pictures up already where you can see at least a bit of it!

Here (http://flickr.com/photos/tachyon/2355852698/) you can see the left pedal sticking up above the colorful keyboard -- when I'm not using that keyboard, I have it sitting with one side on the part of the recumbent exercise bike that houses the flywheel, and the other side on an under-desk shelf I made.

Here (http://flickr.com/photos/tachyon/356292087/in/set-72157594403956150/) you can see the left pedal and how that end of it goes under my desk.

Here (http://flickr.com/photos/tachyon/355425185/in/set-72157594405465924/) you can see the back of the chair part of it.

I should use this as an excuse to take a picture of it with Balor on it, because he does sometimes like to jump up and curl into a ball on it when I walk away from the computers for a moment, or sometimes even when I just stand up for a sec and don't know that I'm about to sit back down on him.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I just think that's so cool! I bet wtfpotatoes would love it.