Hubris

In Ancient Greek hubris referred to actions taken in order to shame the victim, thereby making oneself seem superior. Today it means exaggerated self pride or self-confidence, often resulting in fatal retribution.

I don´t know if I am suffering from constantly hubris, but I am starting to wonder. When I feel alright, I act as I would be fine, and do things that comes back to me a few hours after.

Take for example yesterday. I felt great - almost no pain and my body was like a feather I could do anything with. So I ran up and down some stairs a little bit too fast, until my colleage asked my if I knew hubris.

Just a few hours after I could feel it. I was hardly able to put my left feet down, and I could feel the pain all the way from the back, down my thighs and all the way to my ancle. The only thing that helped was to lie on the floor. And today I had to go home from work after an hour, simply because I was unable to sit or stand.

Oh, greek tragedy.

(Temporarily) Hurray!

My physioterapist had some good news for me this morning: There are some progress! The last few weeks I have been doing some exercises to train my muscles far down in my back, especially on the left side, where my problems are.

My problems lie in the L3-L4-L5-area (according to the X-ray). The gel from the discs are into the space where it shouldn´t be, there are the nerves and the spinal cord. The gel is pressing against the nerves which causes pain.

The muscles are now getting stronger, and therefor they give the problem area some rest, so that it can start to heal.

This was really good news. And I´m celebrating with a coffee with cinnamon....mmmm.

Sunday walk

All weekends after my back pain started, I have tried to get out to walk. Last weekend I went up to Norefjell, but this weekend I went to Sognsvann again (for the first time since I can´t run).

I try to be a little bit active everyday, but it is all in all clear that my activity level is going down. I have to lie down from time to time. For all it´s worth, I am glad that it´s November and chilly and already people think it´s good enough to go into the sofa and drink tea and eat chocolate.

I am also trying to do the small exercises which my physiotherapist have told me. She can feel that the muscles on the left side of my back is weaker than on my right side. So that´s gotta change.