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I'm a hurting puppy today.

My back hurts, my hands are freaking killing me, and the muscles in my thighs keep seizing up. I think I am either coming down with something (boo hiss), or I'm having the worst flare I've had in ages.

I'm pretty sure that my back woes (mid back muscles, lower back feels all compressed in the spine) are because I have carried my kids around a few times this week. Not a lot, like last night carrying DS2 up to bed, and Wednesday hauling DD out of the mall. But that's a lot more than I have been doing. I haven't really carried them at all since about August when I first found out I would need the surgery. I rarely even picked them up for months, and only recently (mid-December) started picking up DS2 to go in the shopping cart again.

It really sucks not to be able to carry them without feeling like this afterwards. They are not big: DD only weighs about 34 lbs in spite of the fact she's 5. DS2 is probably approaching 30 lbs. I could see having a problem if they were really big kids, but they're not!

I need to try out the Vioxx my rheumatologist gave me but I'm waiting until after I see the G-E dr on the 26th. I've been having stomach woes and I don't want any new medications interfering with what's going on there. It's only another week or so now, so I'll be able to hang on...

Cranked out another column last night, that makes 4 done so far! I over-write SO MUCH it's pathetic. I spend 30 minutes writing and 2 hours editing... don't laugh. 500 words is enough to tell a good story but not enough to be as long-winded as I tend to be! It's great discipline for me, though.

Now I'm going to take some ibuprofen, then finish making up the kids' beds with clean linens... it never ends, does it?