losing my religion

[tielan]

The 'tennis elbow' is creeping on the left. Up to above the elbow, and down to the muscles/tendons that assist with twisting the forearm.

*sigh*

I need to go see a physiotherapist. Not sure I can afford to right now

And, yes, I think everything is getting to me. Just the slow stress and pressure of my situation, my country's situation, the world's situation...

I didn't get to church on Sunday night. Got a headache as church time was coming up, lay down and was in and out of sleep for the next six hours.

'In and out of sleep for hours' is my latest thing, though. I need to wash, brush my teeth, get ready for bed, and then lie down. Then at least my sister can just turn off my light on her way to bed.

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[copracat]

Tennis elbow is a dog of an injury! It takes so long to repair but at least it is easily fixable. Giving up the things that exacerbate it while you heal is the worst after the pain. I had to stop both of the things that made my long commute bearable - ipad and knitting - while I was repairing the stupid tendon.

I hope you start feeling better soon.

[tielan]

Well, crap. How long do you have to stop doing things for?

[copracat]

Until doing it doesn't make it worse, I guess. I stopped reading my ipad on commutes and then moved to have a shorter commute (not the reason I moved). The physio thought that was definitely the culprit but knitting is similar - arms held in the same position for a long time with small finger movements. Now I break up my knitting with more stops than previously and make sure I have support under my elbows, support for the weight of the project.

The fix for tendons takes a while because it is slowly loading the tendon with repetitive exercise. The ones I did look like this: https://www.csp.org.uk/publications/tennis-elbow-exercises

You start with the lowest weight (ie holding nothing) one for as long as the physio says (like a week or two) and then move up to holding more weight. It's not supposed to hurt.

This will mess with your gardening but if you don't fix it it can go very crappily wrong.