Sorry for the delay…and…all the injuries.

I cannot believe February is almost done and I haven’t updated the blog since December.
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I also have not edited that 50k.  Instead, I’ve focused on the romance side hustle and getting my Amazon account paying my car note again.  Only 1,684 dollars left, and I’ll be free and clear.  Might frame that pink sheet.  So, what—8 months if I pay minimum.  Ugh.  That would be October.  

After that, I can put that money back into the business of writing and the household.  I’m also not too proud to admit that I am accepting 140 a week from my parents to help me have some spending money and for groceries.  

Three weeks ago I slipped and fell on the ice.  It was January 31st.  Since then, I have been wracked with pain.  I thought I might have a solution after I saw a pain specialist and they gave me a deep hip injection into my bursa.  

That brought my pain down from about an 8 to a 4/5.  Now, here I sit at a 4/5 and I need to figure out why.  I don’t want to go back to the pain doctor.  He’s treating the symptoms and don’t get me wrong, I respect that, but I need to fix this.  It feels for the world like sciatica brought on by injury from where I hit when I fell (I hit right at the top/back of my left hip right where those nerves exit from the spine).  

I’m worried I’ve got a herniated disc.  If I do, I’m doing everything right to fix it already.  So that’s cool.  It has been excruciating staying in the house all the time, but it’s more excruciating moving at all with the pain.  Luckily, I can position myself both in the bed and on the recliner with my feet up so that I can still be upright and type without pain.  

I’m walking in the back yard every day.  It helps the dogs and from what I can see, walking is totally cool as long as it doesn’t hurt.  If I stay in the backyard, I can come in as soon as it starts.  

I was supposed to go down to Olli and teach a class with dad (one of the things on my bucket list).  But, There’s no way I can sit for two hours, let alone the 18 hours required to get down to Mississippi.  I’m super disappointed to because I had plans to get the flowers started and planted down there in the beds.  

Our Lucky is holding out and proving to be a fine dog.  Here’s some pics of the last two months.