Camping Story- "Narrows it down!"

So this whole experience- you know- doing it alone because insurance is slow as fuck is one big game of "Narrows it down"

So when I started all I knew was that, picking up my kids hurt, doing dishes and putting them in the dishwasher hurt, just existing hurt.

As I went along things got better for a while. I had exactly 1 day of pain-freeness. I did my PT routine as instructed and *poof* all gone.. now I've basically just been given drugs to deal with the pain but there has been nothing to really "fix the pain"

Well I've learned that I need pitchers to grab things from the floor so they don't hurt me.
I've learned that I cant pick up the kids.

And- I learned that walking causes me the most pain.

Here was the tale tell story-


So as I said in a previous post about camping that as long as I spent my time at the site I was ok. Well the last full day of our trip my husband, Big and Little all went for a walk. It was not a long walk at all. I was feeling low- normal- amounts of pain before we left. I was carrying nothing. My husband had Little and Big could walk for himself. We were going over to the docks at the lake to take the boys to play in the water.

Well, I think I got 50 feet from the campsite when everything started hurting. By the time we got there I was in a pretty good amount of pain, but not "I need an ambulance" type.

Now- I normally have pain when I got to the store and have to go shopping or anything like that. However I always figured that it was all the activity through out the day that caused it. But I was pretty active the whole trip. Every day I just had my routine around the site. And I felt fantastic. At home, it varies- I can be really low on my activity times and shop and I hurt, or really high and I've never noticed a difference. I figure that the small spurts of activity are not so much of the problem as sustained walking is. Because I can go from kitchen to living room, rest, come back do some cooking, and go back and forth with lots of "rests" or sitting in between. But extended sitting, laying, and walking - sustained activity (activity being defined as what I'm doing not necessarily being active)

I hope that made sense. I guess its another clue into how I can help myself.

Its not what I'm doing, its how long I'm doing it for. This would explain why I can do like 6 dishes and I need to stop, or walking the park hurts but just hanging in the playground does not hurt as much.