I swear I haven’t fallen off the face of the planet (even though right now, my body feels like maybe I did).
First up – Apologies for not being the best #writemotivation person this month. Usually I’m a lot more involved and throwing cookies at everyone 24/7.
However, as I mentioned last week – I had to go to physio to see if we could sort out the pain I’ve been having since week 13 of my pregnancy.
Lo and behold – guess who was right? Me! It’s not ‘just round ligament’ pain. It’s referred pain from my back. Spine to be exact. The lower section of my spine is completely blocked and thus forcing some of the other vertebrae to work overtime and damage nerves which send out way too much pain to my lower body. Fun, right?
Not.
Because I’m pregnant, I can’t take anti-inflammatory anything. All I can do is ice my lumbar region and hope for the best. Frankly, it did make it feel better, until I went back yesterday for a follow up where my physio finished the tests for my diagnosis and then tried to work out some of the spine.
Cue last night – and my body was one huge ball of pain, far worse than when I went to visit last week. It’s even more difficult and painful to move and walking? Yeah, you can almost forget walking. It’s this sort of half stagger – if you didn’t know better, you’d think I was drunk. Oh yay – the joy.
So, this is my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. I don’t usually make excuses for not getting my writing done, but pain is not conducive to my creative process. Actually – if I try my creative process while in pain, my characters always seem to end up angry, bitter and killing people I didn’t intend them to kill… Hmmm there’s probably a plotbunny there 😉
To sum up -September #Writemotivation is going abysmally for me. Pain has made my grand plans pale in comparison and thus I’m failing horribly at keeping up with people’s blogs. NEVER FEAR! I will try desperately to catch up on at least this week’s blogs and I apologize profusely in advance for being such a poor cheerleader this month.
Hope everyone else is having a far better September than I am. Tell me – let me live vicariously through your accomplishments 😀
*hugs* Poor dear!! Just remember: 9 more weeks!! You can do it!! And then the physio can fix your back up, and you’ll be pain free again! <3
AW! *hugs* You’re still so awesome in my book. 😀 Pain is a mind crippler, or least it can be when you don’t want your characters to kill each other. ;-D Yes, there is a plot bunny in there. It involves blood, mayhem, and maybe a few zombies and other nasty critters. 😀
Hope the PT starts helping. I’ve done it a few times and there will be times when it hurts a lot.
Take care, and yes, you live vicariously through us. 😀
*hugs and cookies* You need them more than all of us! 😀 Should I do up a nurse Dino next? hehe
I can’t express the sympathy I’m feeling for you. Pain is no fun but you’ve done well. I’m glad you got to the bottom of things. Being right was good but still not the best when what you’re right about is pain. Hugs and more hugs. 🙂
That sounds terrible! I just my baby a week ago and even without the pain you have I couldn’t write a thing the entire pregnancy it was like my brain blocked out the creative to focus on the baby making. Now that he’s here the ideas are a flowin’. Don’t worry about it, you’ll get there.
Ugh. Sorry to hear that you’re still in so much pain. *hugs* Hopefully it’ll get better/be over soon!
For some living vicariously: I’m halfway through editing chapter 10, which puts me right on track for the month. Trying to decide if I keep going with the paper editing, or if I pause and make the updates to an actual computer document.
There’s something very fulfilling about going through the physical manuscript and making changes and watching the pile of red-inked papers grow. However, with the computer document, it’s a little easier to see how things fit in the flow of the story. So…yeah. I’ll figure it out soon…I hope. 🙂
Aww, at least you know what is causing the pain. You could try visiting a chiropractor. Many are able to adjust a pregnant woman’s back without any trouble. But, don’t worry about us. We know you’re not up to snuff right now. Just take care of yourself and the baby. Before you know it, you’ll be back to your old self and cheering away.
I’m so sorry to hear about all your pain! 🙁 I really hope it eases up soon. Please don’t worry about not having all the time in the world to cheerlead though, and as for the writing, you’ll get back to it when you can. There’s a level of pain where concentration and creative productivity are just not feasible!
As for how others are doing, unfortunately you won’t be able to live too vicariously through any mind-blowing successes on my account! 🙁 My main goal was to bring my WIP’s word count up to 70k, but I’ve not written a word in it this month yet due to revisions on an older MS in the hopes of getting that one done for GOOD (so it stops tormenting me while I’m trying to work on the WIP). If I finish the old MS this month, then it will be super productive to me, whether I finish my original listed goals or not.
Take care!! x
Have you tried a chiropractor? If it’s a blockage in your spine they should be able to put it back to rights pretty quickly. It will make your muscles hurt (because they’ve been in the same position for so long, and this will be a new position all of a sudden), but it will help the blockage and the nerves.
Hope you start feeling better soon <3
Suggestion: my mother is a midwife, so she knows all kinds of homeopathic methods to pain relief and things like that. If you know anybody who is a midwife, maybe ask them for some suggestions. Sorry you’re going through all of this. It sucks being pregnant sometimes. I mean, it’s wonderful, but it sucks. 🙂
If ever there was a time for you to relax, this was it. Maybe we should be your cheerleaders for awhile. You do plenty for us all the time. I’d soak in a hot bath (if that helps)and eat my comfort food of choice and try to be as comfortable as possible – not an easy task right now, i see. big hugs! hope you get to feeling better. massages from your partner might be nice as well. 🙂
think of all the plotbunnies your child is giving you. (they tend to do that all their lives.)
Oh man I hope you feel better soon!