so tired
After I posted on Wednesday I did go out back and do yard work. I bagged up three bags of weeds that had been piling up for months. Then I got out the entrenching tool… don’t know what it’s really called but it is like an axe with two blades, at 90 degrees to each other, facing opposite directions. I chunked up the top 6 inches of dirt for about 10 square feet til my heart was pounding. I was out of breath for minutes after I stopped.
Thursday I had to go to work and I felt dizzy, tired, and slightly in pain all day. In the past I thought yard work was making me better than I felt on weeks when I didn’t do any, but it didn’t work this time. I barely got through Thursday at work. Friday and Saturday I felt worse but at least I didn’t have to go anywhere.
This morning… I feel kind of the way you feel when you know a hangover is finally going away (but not quite gone yet.) The difference is I can’t say “never again” even as a lie to myself because it’s just gonna get worse for the next six weeks. Sigh.
Keep an eye on the light at the end of the tunnel. (And if you stare at it hard enough it won’t turn into a train.)
When is Chinese New Years, again?
And all the yard work will help you feel better, in time. The cumulative effect will be good, even if it makes a few days a little harder in the short term. It’s tough to see when you’re in the middle of it, though.
The doc said to cool it but when she heard it was “fun” she said “oh that’s different, I’m in favor of fun.” But she responded to my “I might never be able to do it again” by telling the other doc that was there, I will “probably” (upgrade from “might”) be keeping my lymph nodes, and would be able to do “anything she wants” with that arm! w00t. More light in that tunnel.
So I think I’ll take some advice and try to stop when my heart starts pounding instead of continuing for another 5 minutes
Any possibility of trying it next time without pushing yourself to exhaustion? Please slap your own forehead for me when you think about the drugs that are coursing through your system as you overtax your body in every which way . . . (I’m gritting my teeth just thinking about this!) I still can’t picture an entrenching tool. This is because I avoid actual work at all costs:)
Yes, I think this is definitely gonna help when I’m in the backyard thinking “just five more minutes” and I’ll see you slapping me on my forehead, with my own hand. (“She’s making me hit myself again!!!!”)
The ax is like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Collins-Landscaping-Pulaski-Axe-32677/dp/B000H5WS1W
I use the less axey looking side to break up the soil and pull it a bit, but I use an axe-like swing.
You can picture ALL KINDS of things when you whack that thing. The digging bar weighs 20 pounds and is more of a plunging whack:
http://www.amazon.com/Truper-Hex-Shaft-Digging-Bar-5ft/dp/B000HD4LYG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1222876405&sr=1-2
And then I rake the dirt to somewhere else in the yard, which at the moment is all piles and ditches and weeds from when we had the trees taken out a couple of years ago and then just got lazy…