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Pushing Through

This morning I woke up at 4:00 for my 4:30 Starbucks shift.  I slept better last night and didn't wake up crying, so that's a plus!  I definitely was still in a lot of pain this morning, but not completely unbearable.

I thought I'd do just fine at my shift but it was hard.  Really hard.  I'm so grateful it was only 4 hours because I could barely make it through.  I just move so slow and it hurts to bend over because that's stretching those low back/ glute muscles.  I thought I was looking forward to my 10 minute break but we only have wood chairs and I couldn't sit down comfortably and without pain.  Sooooo...that wasn't great.

My shift was super understanding and let me stay on the register so I didn't have to move around a lot.  It was kind of a win/ lose because standing still made my muscles hurt too haha. I was constantly moving my legs and trying to stretch because that made the pain kind of feel like a good stretch pain, instead of a pain pain...if that makes sense.

The day did get better as it went.  Again, I didn't think I could make it through the work day, and actually planned to leave by 4:00 (it was our late day where we work until 6) but around 3:00 I started feeling better and I knew I could stick it out. 

We will see what the next days have in store...but hopefully they have less pain in them!

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