Back is back

[desperance]

Owie. My back has been really sore for the last twenty-four hours, and I have no idea why. Didn't do anything yesterday to deserve this, and yet here it is. A night's sleep didn't help, and neither did a morning's walking; I went to the post office and the bank and the Indian grocery and the pharmacy and the other bank and the grocery store and home, which is the better part of two hours on my feet and moving, and nothing is easier yet.

It may just be that I have been working too much at this desk in this chair; ergonomically it's shocking. I always had bad posture anyway, but the chair is too low and if there is any way to adjust it any further upwards I cannot find that way; so I end up hunching forwards with my back bent and my arms at angles and yeah. It is neither pretty nor clever. I don't like to blame the chair, because of aforementioned poor posture, and there are a dozen other reasons why my back might be bad; but it ain't helping.

I will be spending most of today away from it, though not by design, things just worked out that way; this morning I shopped and ran errands, this afternoon I will be mostly in the kitchen cooking things. Chicken kofta and kidney-bean curry and salads and such. Tuesdays, Karen goes to yoga after work; I get an extra couple of hours to cook in, and often a guest or two for dinner.

Comments

[movingfinger]

Consider using very firm, even hard, squarish cushions on the chair to boost the seat higher if you are wedded to keeping it. (Though, personally, I think you should replace it, keeping it if it is an attractive chair, with something better for your daily use.)

If you can't find a suitable cushion, fabric folded to the right size---uniformly without lumps, of course---put into a pillow case will also work to elevate you. Quilts are good for this kind of thing.