INSIDE OUT

So, who knows what's happened here. All I know is that I was bed-ridden for NINE HOURS yesterday. No word of a lie, it took me FIVE MINUTES to get from the door of my bathroom, to the toilet to pee! I couldn't even bend down to put the seat down! I had to ask B to graciously help me. What a man that B is. He had to come home from work. The pinnacle and when I knew this was bad, was when the kids got into the freezer, took two dark chocolate bars and had a hay-day! I couldn't move. I wondered earlier, if something important happened, could I move to do anything about it? Would adrenaline take over and I would be able to get up. Well, if you know anything about my views on sugar in my children, you know this would be something I would definitely have gotten up for if I could. Yet, there I lay. B needed to come back to take care of the home front from all sides. What a guy! So, here I am today, able to walk but getting that feeling like it's happening again. I've been doing yoga a lot lately. The great thing about my desire to do yoga is that I'm quite flexible. The hard part is restricting this flexibility. What happens is that I often can move into the poses quite easily, yet, my muscles cannot maintain the pose. :( I think I'm over-working my muscles and they are fighting back. Ironically, one of the solutions to sciatica... is yoga. I will be continuing some of the poses and found a website that discusses certain poses specifically for sciatica. It says to do them "twice daily". That sounds good for this addicted yogi-an. Now if I can only get up from this seat without falling to the ground in pain. Ugh. Oh, and in case you're thinking that this is some kind of unrealistic dramatization... Honey, I've had three children. I'd much rather go through labour again than through the pain I went through yesterday. Luckily, I was able to rest. It made me think about those whose husbands aren't as supportive or worse yet, those mommies or daddies who don't have ANY support at all. What do they do in times such as these? Yet another reason I just can't imagine.