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So I am posting my Thanksgiving greeting early. My friend R*** gets here tonight from Las Vegas and I will be hanging with friends here for the gobble gobble. I have been off this week for vacation. Got my nails done today - french manicure on my hands and purple toes. I have to lay off the computer so I am using this week to just take it easy on things and try and get my shoulder in shape. I got some bad news at the chiropractor. The injury has expanded to the chest area from the shoulder and it hurts to be on the computer at home. My set up here is not very ergonomic and I have to make some changes here so that improves.

I got my house cleaned here too. That was a big deal. I was having trouble lifting due to the injury and also wanted to treat myself to a good deep clean. Well, I am going to work this into my monthly budget. I thought I could clean but I really never got my place THIS clean. My bathtub sparkles, no cat here and it is so shiny here. This is money well spent. My friend J*** was the hook up on this one and I am thrilled with the outcome. Totally great!

Anyhoo. I hope that everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving has a great time. Enjoy the feasting, family and fun!

Cheers to all!

So I have been doing chiro treatments all week and yesterday my doc (she is a doctor of chiropractedness or whatever it is) analyzed my posture to see if that might be the root of the current back and neck tension/pain. Well slap my ass and call me Betty! It sure as hell was!

I am a sloucher. I slouch forward and my head and neck go forward. It is common for those of us who are on the computer of course. We tend to lean into the monitor and strain our necks. This can cause all sorts of problems.

So we did the elocution thing and she corrected my posture. Shoulders and head back, spine straight. And slap my tush agin again, I felt 80% of the pain and tension leave the enflamed areas. This actually really *bleeping* works. She said I should visualize the shoulder blades touching together in my back, really get my shoulders back...and then I would be about right.

She advised using my break software as a check in about the posture thing. Everytime I do my stretches, I realign my slouchy self so that I am sitting upright and aligned. I feel the tension and pain leave and I try and keep myself straight.

So check yourself and your posture...you will avoid injury this way.


by Dina Roderiguez (yahoo lists)