Ouch … zzzzzzzzzzzz…
March 4, 2012 at 10:40 am | Posted in arthrits, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint pai, Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 4 CommentsTags: aches, filing, RA, Rheumatoid arthritis, transportation, Wales
I have just got back from a short trip to Wales – or a long trip, depending on how you look at it. I was there for about 2.5 days – but I also spent 16 hours travelling! I don’t know why sitting on your butt on a train is tiring, but it is! Fortunately I was fine RA-wise while I was there, even though I was visiting a friend with a dog and a bunch of mad cats that periodically had to be chucked off me, the bed or sundry bits of furniture, and even though we spent most of the 2.5 days filing.
I am NOT good at filing. First we cleared out a load of old papers from a filing cabinet, and then we cleared out a load of papers from boxes and put the ones she needed to keep IN the filing cabinet. The trouble is that neither of us are any good at filing – firstly thinking of suitable headings for things – like car insurance: do you file it under insurance, car insurance, motor insurance, auto insurance? ‘Well, where would you look for it when you went to find it?’ says I. ‘Dunno,’ says she … ‘I’m putting under car insurance,’ says I with a sinking feeling that EVERY time she’s looking for something in future I’m going to get a phone-call asking what we filed it under.
Secondly the actual physical act of filing. It’s a lot of hand movement for one thing, and my hands are rather sore this morning. Also, you know those cabinets with hanging files that you put papers in? Well I KEPT putting the darned papers in BETWEEN the hanging files so they ended up on the bottom of the drawer instead of filed. I’d only realise hours later when I went to file another car insurance document only to find that the car insurance file was empty. ‘I know I filed some of these earlier … ah … there they are, on the bottom of the drawer …’ It was biiiiig, deep drawer in quite a tall cabinet. I think this may be why my shoulders are also aching this morning.
Still, even with all that going on I was fine … until I got home. I think it’s a question of when you stop you realise how tired you are. While I was there I did not stop! I have now ground to a rather achy halt!
Zzzzzzzzzzzz……….
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My sympathies to you. OK, I will admit, I have tons of filing piled in black boxes. I HATE filing to. It is a hand killer and that is for sure. And worse yet, by the time I do get around to starting that process, hopefully 1/2 can be shredded. Did I mention that I can’t figure out how come we still have to stockpile so many bits of paper in this supposedly “paperless” world.
Comment by abcsofra— March 4, 2012 #
I know exactly what you mean about filing hurting your hands – those repetitive movements and gripping the files really, really hurts after a while. It sounds like an exhausting trip! (I was hoping it was going to be exhausting because you were frolicking about Wales, but sadly not).
I hope you’re resting up now!
Comment by Helen— March 5, 2012 #
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Gotcha on the train butt. Mine hurts right now. Can’t tell you how many times I have run past the point where I should have listened to that internal voice and given myself a break. Live and learn, I guess.
Comment by Areya— April 3, 2012 #