(just very quietly, a whisper really)

my back is feeling better.... not amazing, but better than it has been in weeks and weeks, maybe months.

i don't want the universe to hear, but i am so excited. i got out of bed this morning and initial movement and sitting up didn't take the wind out of me with a huge ripping pain. it was so nice! that's one thing about enduring annoying chronic pain, when it doesn't exist or subsides, i am so appreciative and thankful.

so i still feel as if i've swallowed a tube sock, can't really breathe and i sound awful. but i'm not letting a cold get me down because my back feels better. i chalk it up to multiple acupunture appointments and finally getting on the treadmill even though it hurt at the time. i couldn't run but i went down last night and walked briskly up an incline for 30 min. i think that must have definately helped although i was skeptical at the time.

hope everyone else is doing ok. my mom has hurt her knee, so i'm a little bummed about that. a tear in her patellar tendon, i guess. i wish they would fix all the tendons, replace them with new ones. it's such a minor surgery and it would give her confidence. but apparantely that's not going to happen just yet. we'll see. fingers crossed it all heals up nicely.

everyone keep fingers crossed that ruby doesn't get our cold either. so far mumsie and ruby are the only ones in our family still healthy. boo to cold and flu season.

big love!!