Small world
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♥Jan. 18th, 2012 // 03:22 pm♥
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Chatting to one of the other riders after our lesson this morning* who, when I said the word "Mudchute" said "I *thought* your horse looked familiar!" Turns out that she and her daughter used to ride there about eight years ago, and GB was daughter's first jumping horse (as with so many other people!). I said they can have a go for old time's sake, if they like!
* Which went really well. Very pleased with it: my position was apparently much better (okay, okay, maybe her crazy obsession with forever shortening my stirrups has something going for it!), which meant that we had a lovely trot going on, and I think I've finally managed to understand the instructions I'm now been given for what my hands should be doing when we're going around on a circle: needless to say, these are completely different from the ones I've been given in the past.
In less cheery news, my rib is bothering me. I'm going to go to the GP on Friday and see what they say: the hospital told me six weeks, and it's been more like eight. In general, it doesn't bother me at all (I can occasionally feel it if I stretch or sneeze, but, eg, right now there's nothing to indicate it's dodgy and there also wasn't when I was driving, grooming GB, riding him, carrying his saddle around, washing my hair, and so on), but it's started to be really painful at night. It was always worse at night, but the last week or so, at a guess, it's been getting more and more painful when I first wake up and roll over, and when I first go to bed (possibly also in between, but I'm asleep then so I don't really care! It's not waking me up, which it did the first week or so), and the pain's much more of a stabbity-ow pain than the achey-must-move-slowly one that it was before.
Last night, I went to roll over and got stuck: if I stayed perfectly still, it was absolutely fine, but if I tried to move in any way, in either direction, it was agonising. This was not terribly amusing (except in the sense that it was actually quite funny), so yes, I think I'll go and see the doc. Mike did offer to give me a push, which previously had helped when it was sore (because he was pushing me, I wasn't using any muscles to roll over so it didn't hurt), but it still hurt when he tried that. I eventually managed to roll over onto my front with only minimum whimpering, and then onto my other side. Similarly, pressing my hand over it, which also used to support it enough to stop it hurting, doesn't work any more, which is how I got stuck last night: I managed to get my hand into place, thinking it would be enough to let me roll over, but then couldn't roll over or get my hand out.... Ok, this is actually quite amusing. Now. [g]
(Standard treatment for ribs is painkillers. Sadly, it's difficult to time pain killers so that they'll kick in shortly before you wake up in the morning. I may try taking them half an hour before bed, though, and see if that helps.) |
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