Okay, this year is getting decidedly weirder, weather-wise. Not three days ago it snowed (in October! and not for the first time this year, either!) and now the weather forecast for tomorrow is 20 degrees Celsius. WTF much?
In other news I am moving forward with the swimming; it feels great. After a number of very socially stressful and negative days I went for a training yesterday and exited all smile-y and much relaxed. I am not under the impression the pretty instructor mars the effect :D
On the other side, the back pain from all the computer hanging from the weeks before wasn't helping me be cheery. On Monday we went for a Physical Therapy in Neurology practical lesson, and the guy (the doctor in Chief of that particular section in the hospital) was, bless him, completely stumped what to do with us. We have not covered the Physical Therapy rotation yet, nor is it possible -he assured us- to cram an entire branch of medicine into two hours. So we sat in his office and looked confused ourselves while he talked things we weren't very good at grasping, until he went okay, so ask things that interest you. And of course I, trying to sit straight on the edge of the - erm. that thing in a doctor's office on which the patient lies is not called a bed, is it? well, on the edge of that thing - asked how is one supposed to take care of oneself if they are doing the sort of job that involves a lot of computer use.
Consultant: :eyes me penetratingly: Your back hurts, doesn't it?
ME: :stammers: Um, yeah, how did you...?
Consultant: Lie down.
ME: What?
Consultant: Down!
ME: :cowed: Okay. :lies down:
Consultant: :gives breathing instructions, presses against my back, make sit pop like whoa:
ME: OMG, and I thought it was popping before! o.O
Consultant: :pulls at my hair: Do you live?
ME: :stands up, rolls shoulders, gapes:
BACK: :decidedly doesn't give a pip:
ME: :wide-eyed: OMG, you made it stop! It felt awful for almost two weeks and you killed it for half a second. Like magic!
Consultant: :very smug: So. Somebody else hurting somewhere?
Subsequently he showed us a bit of the pressure points of the ear on a girl from my group, a trick for banishing headache on one of the boys, and managed to spew about a million super fun comments in the meantime.
ME: Whoa, that was such a fun lesson!
Boy from my group: Only because you got free pain-banishing.
ME: Well, obviously.