u/Informal_Atmosphere

Hello -- sorry to barge into your lovely crafting sub with this question. A couple days ago, I bought a tufted wool area rug, choosing tufted partly because my cat can't scratch up the surface (as opposed to a looped rug, which is a nightmare... for me at least... a great joy for her I think). I didn't notice the back of the rug isn't sealed or covered in any way, and I caught the cat this morning flipping the corner of the rug over and pulling threads out from the back. I'm trying to redirect her behavior of course, but is there a way I can secure the back of this rug to help protect it?

Hi all. My hubs is trying to rehab a partial supraspinatus tear in his left arm (surgeon told him no, so he got a cortisone shot and is doing PT). The pain from that sucked enough on its own, but he was getting by sleeping on his right side. Then his right shoulder got angry from overuse due to an old partial tear in his labrum on that side. So we bought a wedge pillow set and he’s been sleeping reclined in bed for the past month (with a small wedge under his knees as well), though only for a few hours at a time. But now thanks to that position and the general sitting around not being able to do stuff with his arms, he has developed sciatica and he’s getting numbness and cramping in his feet when he lays down. He also strained his posterior tibial tendon doing one of his rehab moves, and he was having neck pain from sleeping upright. He feels like everything he does to try to help his rotator cuff causes more pain elsewhere in his body and he’s feeling weaker and less able to rest all the time. Have any of you run into similar troubles? Any advice on how to break the downward spiral?