Already? It’s already been November for a week? Sheesh! Where has time gone, and, more importantly, how did it get away from me to begin with?
I’m still behind on NaNoWriMo. Like, five days behind. I need to write just under 2000 words per day to finish on time (1944 to be exact) and at my current rate I will finish on February 13, 2017.
So, it’s still doable.
I think.
(I hope.)
Unfortunately, a new hindrance has happened — and one not nearly as happy as going to get Jazzy and Riley. (“Tomorrow, tomorrow, we’ll have them tomorrow. They’re only a day away.”)
Ahem. Yes. Anyhow.
On Friday morning I stepped out of my car and into a whole mess of pain in my left hip. I went to work that afternoon and was pretty much okay as long as I didn’t sit for long. Saturday, not so much. I made it through my shift but walking didn’t help the pain like it did on Friday.
Sunday I called off because I spent the night in so much pain I could have cried. Or screamed. Every time I moved my left leg I woke up whimpering.
Yeah, no way I could be a nurse feeling like that.
By that point I was pretty sure it was the sciatic nerve but of course it was Sunday so no chiropractors were in anywhere.
So, I spent the day trying not to want to take a shotgun and blow my left hip to smithereens and not being very productive. It didn’t help that I couldn’t sit for too long at a time. Or stand for too long at a time. Or move for too long at a time. Or…
Anyhow, I called for a chiropractic appointment as soon as I got up and they got me in within the hour. I got poked and prodded and x-rayed and had my lower back stretched, some electricity applied to my muscles (e-stim, I’m in love), and a few minor manipulations and got sent home with an appointment to come back tomorrow to go over my x-rays, probably get some more treatment, and decide on a course of therapy.
So… writing…
Hasn’t been happening. (See: not being able to sit for too long at a time.)
Between that and getting ready to bring our new family members home from the shelter tomorrow (one more sleep!) nothing much else has been getting done.
And then there was the time change. I know a lot of people like the “fall back” thing but I’m not one of them. My body has no idea what time it is now and it will take about two weeks before my internal clock gets completely reset. (The same thing will happen in the spring. Congress really needs to do something useful and abolish this nonsense.)
Anyhow, probably not much writing is going to get done tomorrow either, between voting, getting dogs (two and a half to three hour chunk of the day), chiro appointment, and getting the dogs used to their new digs.
But I can still do this. I won’t quit now.
Novel Notes 