At the pain clinic. I was there on Monday working with the pain physio. I explained that since doing the exercises he suggest my pain has increased. I said I was working through it and pushing myself as I’m sure someone said that I’d have to go through it before I got the benefits from it. It was a simple exercise of just standing up and sitting down. He said right if it’s causing you so much pain and you’re reaching for tramadol (which I was) a lot more than normal then we need to scale back that exercise and go for something different.

So the new exercise is simply sitting down and raising my leg. But I have one of those resistance band round my leg so I’m pulling against that too.

Seems simple and is supposed to be less painful. When o did it during the session there was no pain during it. As we were leaving the pain started again. I’ll keep it up and hopefully things will get easier and less painful.

I had a strange day yesterday. It was a mixed bag, there were ups and downs. Pain, sorry and joy, there were even times where people were shot down and that was great to see.

So the day didn’t start off early. Well days don’t for me. I am not a morning person. At all.

I got up and got moving. I checked Facebook. The normal things for me really. On Facebook I saw a post from a tattoo and piercing shop saying they had some new crystal piercing jewellery. I’ve wanted some crystal jewellery for my tragus for ages. There were a couple of other bits I wanted from Bury too. A note book, some pens, a hair colour and some bobbles. Not much really.

So I went into Bury with my mum, she had an appointment to get her hearing aids fixed. We got there early to avoid the madness of school traffic that happens near home at pick up time. So we pottered about abit getting the bits I wanted and a couple of things she wanted to. Then came the time for her appointment and we took different paths. I said I was going to the tattoo shop to have a look and see what they had.

At the shop I saw the tragus jewellery I wanted and asked if the would fit it for me. I also asked about suggestions for other piercings (I think I’m addicted). The guy suggested a conch piercing and some jewellery to go with it. I thought “that sounds interesting”. So I got the tragus bits done and my mum was sat in the front of the shop waiting for me. O had my flower of life tattoo done there and the girl that did it remembered me and the work she’d done and asked to get a picture of it. So she did that and then me and mum went on our way.

I got as far as 20 yards from the shop and then I decided I wanted to get the piercings done the guy suggested. So off to the cash machine we went to get some money. It’s a cash only shop. The back we went. When we got back the piercing guy was stood outside having a smoke. So I waited a little while too and had a smoke with him. Well it was a vape not a smoke.

So I got my conches pierced. That was a strange experience. And partly it hurt like hell. That was only for a few second though then it didn’t hurt at all. That felt a bit strange. It didn’t even hurt when the jewellery went in. I think he said he used a blade rather than a cannula. I just though ok. He didn’t use any numbing spray or anything. The worst part about it was when the blade/needle thing went through. That’s what hurt but only for a couple of seconds. But if you’re interested here is a picture of my new hole and new jewellery:

It’s moonstone. I think it looks quite cool.

I got it done and my flower of life tattoo at Bravest Kids tattoo and piercing shop. Here is a pic of my tattoo if you haven’t already seen it.

Here is a link to the shop, the people are really friendly and there are some great artists:

http://www.bravestkidstattoo.com

Go have look.

One massive bonus and score for me today was that I went somewhere on my own. That is something that I have t done in a long time. Buts it’s probably why things affected me so much. I even did it in y wheelchair. Again another score. I had forgotten though how hilly and bumpy Bury is. It was nackering pushing myself round but

I did it!

While getting my conches pierced one of my new crystals fell out of my pocket and smashed on the floor. I was sad about that and it got me a bit worked up. On the way back to the car my mum wash pushing me and I could hear her huffing and puffing behind me so we had to stop so she could rest.

This was something else that wound me up a bit as I then started to worry about her and wanted to make sure she was ok. I love my mum and don’t want anything to happen to her.

We got home had tea and then we had to go out again. We had a team meeting formally a committee meeting with the MS people. I wasn’t expecting this to go too well as I had to report an issues earlier in the day to head office. But that’s didn’t go as badly as I expected. The other thing that happened during the meeting was someone was shot down, I’ve been waiting for so long for that to happen. I’m glad it happened though because this person was getting on my nerves and I could feel it boiling up and I know at some point I would snap and if that happened it wouldn’t be nice for anyone. But them being put in their place made me feel better.

Then my old friend decided it felt lonely and came out to play. Here I’m talking about pain. It started up again. I went through my bag looking for my painkillers but I’d done the extremely clever thing and left them at home. So I just grinned and beard it then had some when I got back. It didn’t help that I had my normal pains and the new piercings were a bit painful too. But I’ve been blasting them with Reiki, Karuna and other healing energies which has helped.

I did my exercises this morning. To feel the burn and the start of pain in my legs after only 7 leg raises is something. Hope the pain doesn’t stay long though. But I should be able to do more as time goes on.

Anyway I hope you are all good.

Love and light.