Every so often I’ll get a touch of sciatica—essentially, something in my lower back is getting compressed and it sends shooting pains down my left leg. I also have an issue with the left hip where something is getting compressed and it’s sending pain diagonally across the hip and pulling on something on the inner side of my left knee.

All of which is to say that I had a truly shitty night last night because my left knee kept throbbing like a rotten tooth no matter what position I slept in and absolutely nothing I had in the house was touching the pain. Luckily I already know what the cure for this is—I need to get up and walk more. I’ve been a bad girl and skipping my treadmill time and this is my punishment for it.

So as of today I’ll start hitting the treadmill daily because I would really like this compression to relax and let me sleep. There’s no way to put a standing desk in my office (and frankly that would cause me more pain as well) but I’m going to set an hourly alarm that will remind me to get up and move around for five minutes, which will also help.

Getting old is not for wimps, that’s a damned fact.