{"id":826,"date":"2015-11-13T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/?p=826"},"modified":"2015-11-27T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T20:29:24","slug":"pain-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/pain-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve had a terrible time concentrating on writing this past week. In fact, this is the first thing I\u2019ve written in days because I feel I have to. I\u2019ve done no editing, outlining, or even writing about why I haven\u2019t been writing. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t know what to do next. I have a plan, I just haven\u2019t started doing it yet. So what\u2019s holding me back? Well, I\u2019ve been in pain all bloody week, so it\u2019s probably that.<\/p>\n

Last week I got a new computer chair, because my old one is so big I can\u2019t sit properly in it. It\u2019s been killing my back and shoulders for years. The new computer chair actually supports my lower back and forces me to sit upright. I\u2019ve been watching my posture all week. I\u2019ve been stretching and exercising every single day, no flaking out on that. So what\u2019s the problem? I\u2019m not used to sitting properly! It hurts. I ache so much, so constantly right now, that I can hardly think.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s been affecting everything. Today I hastily introduced my nose to a can of tuna by accidentally dropping it on my face. I\u2019m not usually that clumsy. I\u2019ve also been forgetting plans, letting my phone die, forgetting to phone, text, or email people. I\u2019ve been a mess all week, and I finally realized it\u2019s all because my neck and shoulders are killing me. I wake up with burning stiffness all the way from my clavicle to my acromion process \u2013 I almost typed \u201cacrimonious\u201d process because boy is it ever. Anyway, I have to stretch every morning just to breathe.<\/p>\n

To top it off, I\u2019ve been particularly stupid because my default activity when I feel like crap is to distract myself with computer games. So here I am self-medicating with regular dopamine hits from blingy crap on a screen, where I continually sit at the computer making my shoulder worse, because the stupid monkey in my head keeps saying, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about the pain, the answer is to keep clicking on these shiny pixels. That\u2019ll make you feel better. Woo!\u201d<\/p>\n

So, that\u2019s what I\u2019m not up to. Ugh.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve had a terrible time concentrating on writing this past week. In fact, this is the first thing I\u2019ve written in days because I feel I have to. I\u2019ve done no editing, outlining, or even writing about why I haven\u2019t been writing. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t know what to do next. I have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[23,48],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-health","tag-stupid-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}