The second worst way to wake up.

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I was awoken this morning in what I would have called pre-child-having the worst way to wake up, but now that I have a kid I know that the WORST way to wake up is to surprise vomit or other bodily fluids. So this is now ranked second, but it’s still awful. Namely, I woke up with a horrible Charley Horse in my calf.

I get them sometimes. Most people do. I got them more often when I was a teenager. Once, the searing pain woke me and I lashed my leg out, slamming my foot against the poured concrete wall of the room I was sleeping in, nearly breaking bones in my foot. Another time I literally woke up screaming, which alarmed Nesko to no end because I wasn’t fully awake and could just kind of roar incoherently at him and he thought my appendix was exploding or something. Good times!

This morning’s wasn’t horrifically bad, and I’m pretty sure it was caused by the fact that the temperature dropped over night and my leg was sticking out from under the cozy covers and the muscle got chilled and them cramped. I stretched it out a bit and was able to fall back asleep and it feels pretty ok now.

Once I had a limp for two days from the strength of the cramp. What the helllll, body.

We’ve been doing lots of drawing and coloring around here lately, and I’m going to go now and help Niko create a gallery wall in the living room of his dinosaur masterpieces.

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Comments

[al_zorra]

Just stretching out your calf muscles by bracing your hands at vaguely shoulder height, while also stretching your back, still held straight, and stretching your leg behind you as far as you can, and holding for a count of 90 can do a lot. Also, are you getting enough potassium?

I have so many cramps and so due to my damaged vertabrae and the wearing away of the disks. If I do this frequently during the week -- and use sole inserts in my boots, during boot weather, etc. -- it reduces the frequeny, intensity and duration of them all enormously.

As soon as a week, ten days, goes by without this (and, well, yes, associated workouts, which would be hard for you to schedule with a young child, one would think), and the cramps come back, hard and mean. Like this week after 16 days in the un airconditioned car for 2000 miles. I'm back at the stretches and workouts again that we're home, and already the crmaps are easing off.

Love, c.