Pain

Spent an hour with the physiatrist yesterday.  Looked at the MRI results.  Bottom line:  The Husband has degenerative disc disease.  Cure:  none.  The only thing to do is manage the pain.  Figure out how to maximize (and integrate)  his pain-free movements into the things he needs to physically do.  My heart hurts that he's in pain.  At least now we know the reason.  But I so wish it was a different, curable, easily resolved issue.  (And so grateful that we forged ahead getting a new mattress, it really has benefitted us both.)

Next step for him is to visit the physical therapist and figure out a regime that will help strengthen the supporting muscles to reduce the pain.   

His physical therapist is in the same office as the one I'm going to.  We had been trying to figure out some little trip - we so need a bit of a getaway.  I think we'll be spending that money on physical therapist co-pays instead.  If I wasn't such a supporter of physical therapy and its benefits, I might opt for the trip.  But no, it's important for both of us to feel as good as we can.  We have a few more years of life on this earth and I want to do our best to be as physically capable as we can be.

Came home from yoga this morning to find this turkey on our front porch.  No idea how long it had been there.  In our efforts to get a decent picture, I think we bothered it enough that it had had enough, it waddled off the steps and along the front sidewalk of the next door neighbor's.  Lived here 21 years and have never seen a turkey in our yard before.

I finally managed to get a decent picture of the daphne bush.  The two of them are just so pretty this year. I so love spring, especially here in Utah. It's truly lovely.

I'm grateful for yoga.  I wondered aloud this morning to The Husband if that isn't the reason my back hasn't bothered me as much - after all, I'm the one that fractured three of my vertebrae in a car accident all those years ago (no, I wasn't driving).  But I think the yoga helps me.  Some of those moves / poses are ones that are most recommended for people with low back pain. And I'm all for freedom from pain.  It hurts too much.