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May. 24th, 2012 03:05 pmI"m starting to suspect this hip thing might actually be sciatica after all. I paid closer attention to where the pain originated when it woke me last night and it does seem to be not quite right in the hip but just behind it and looking up symptoms that's one of the areas where sciatica can be felt. also, with the slight weak feeling in the leg, the numbness and that it's worse at night... those are all symptoms too. My trainer, Daniel, also thought from my descriptions it was something pinched rather than a muscle spasm. He showed me a couple stretches as well. There's no reason to just sit around though, and rest it. The website i looked at did say it is ok to move around and exercise and it generally gets better on its own. I'm just glad it's not really bothering me in the daytime other than the leg thing which makes me limp a little but it's not painful. I do find that i can take the pressure off it when i wake up by sleeping on my stomach but i hate sleeping in that position usually. Well, if i can fall back to sleep, even if it's only for an hour at a time, that's better than tossing and turning the rest of the night.
I'll be getting a laptop for work at some point fairly soon. They were hemming and hawing about giving us admin access to it because they wanted everyone to have locked down pcs or laptops but us IT people need to be able to install our non-standard (i.e. not Microsoft) tools and updates so we've finally got permission for that. We've got 5 to choose from including a Lenovo Thinkpad where the screen turns around and makes it a tablet but i don't think i'll get that. I'm leaning to either the little Lenovo or a small HP. Both have 8 gig of memory and a 120 gig solid state hard drive. We'll get a docking station and cable lock as well. I won't be getting rid of my XP machine though because there are a couple of things on it that won't run under Windows 7 that i need for any application maintenance requests. I am probably heading to the smaller machine, 12.5 inch screen because we can connect it to my larger monitor and always plug in a keyboard and mouse to the docking station. Because we have wifi available at work now for these, i can leave the pc network cable plugged into the old one and use the wifi for the new one.
I'll be getting a laptop for work at some point fairly soon. They were hemming and hawing about giving us admin access to it because they wanted everyone to have locked down pcs or laptops but us IT people need to be able to install our non-standard (i.e. not Microsoft) tools and updates so we've finally got permission for that. We've got 5 to choose from including a Lenovo Thinkpad where the screen turns around and makes it a tablet but i don't think i'll get that. I'm leaning to either the little Lenovo or a small HP. Both have 8 gig of memory and a 120 gig solid state hard drive. We'll get a docking station and cable lock as well. I won't be getting rid of my XP machine though because there are a couple of things on it that won't run under Windows 7 that i need for any application maintenance requests. I am probably heading to the smaller machine, 12.5 inch screen because we can connect it to my larger monitor and always plug in a keyboard and mouse to the docking station. Because we have wifi available at work now for these, i can leave the pc network cable plugged into the old one and use the wifi for the new one.
