{"id":376,"date":"2020-11-05T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharonpaine.co.za\/?p=376"},"modified":"2020-11-05T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:40:24","slug":"some-days-it-is-just-too-painful-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharonpaine.co.za\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Some days it is just too painful to write"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn&#8217;t write a post for my challenge yesterday. I fought a migraine all morning and then went to see my physio. Why is it that when we decide to get rid of something painful, it gets worse before it gets better? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been enthusiastically working out with a trainer and a group from my community. It&#8217;s been fun but extremely challenging. It seems that I tried too hard to keep up and have actually hurt a tendon in my shoulder. It only really hurt when I planked or did any push-up related. Thanks to the physio is aches all the time now. My hope is that it will ease up soon, at least my headache is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought that it would be easy enough to catch up with an extra post today. It wasn&#8217;t. I started writing a post about my memories attached to Guy Fawkes and it is not good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also realised that I&#8217;ve been putting off a commissioned piece on my heart surgery. That has been a painful labour of love today too. The surgery was 2 and a half years ago, but it&#8217;s still so painful to think about, let alone write about. Maybe I need to push through the pain so that I can actually heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, I better go give that piece the final push&#8230; then maybe I can save my firework memories piece too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t write a post for my challenge yesterday. I fought a migraine all morning and then went to see my physio. 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Maybe I need to push through the pain so that I can actually heal. That said, I better go give that piece the final push&#8230; then maybe I can save my firework memories piece too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharon-paine-blog","category-writing-challenge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some days it is just too painful to write - Sharon Paine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s still so painful to think about, let alone write about. 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