a long weekend that wasn't
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2002-12-05 - 8:06 p.m.
yay! im just bubbly tonight. i think it is due to the fact that my neck/shoulder isn't having a muscle spasm any longer. last saturday morning, i felt this tightness in it.. even after a hot shower and a quick massage.. the pain continued to get worse. i mean, stabbing pains, when i would move my head to the left or the right. by 9 o'clock on saturday night, i was in hysterical tears... i knew something was up. i rarely cry like that, and rarely over pain. i put heat and ice, some aleve.. you know the general muscle ache relieving agents, and they all did nothing.
Sunday i stayed at home with a cervical collar on, and a heating pad, watching skate videos and movies. i called my doctor and couldn't wait until monday morning, so that i could go and see her. the message i left at the office was "i am in excruciating pain." hehe, they called first thing.so after getting through the day by not moving my neck, looking cripple, i managed to get to the pharmacy to pick up some muscle relaxants. Flexeril. yes. look it up. i got home, took two and fell asleep. it was rough getting up in the morning, but i managed, and once i got to work, i popped another pill, thinking this will be nice. i will be mellow and relaxed while at work. yeah right. to describe in detail what i felt would be over the top... i will just say that for most of the day, i just blankly stared at the screen, and when someone asked me a question, my reply was, "what? can you repeat that?" all i wanted to do was go to sleep. every cell in body said, "karen you need to sleep." i was a sorry case.
anyhow, tuesday night, i took another before bed. sleep was nice. and wednesday, i didn't take anything but an aleve.
i am almost back to normal, though i still can't turn my head much more than a few more degrees to the left or right, but that stabbing pain is gone, thank god.
i hope i don't have to go through that again.
all in all, my weekend was only really one day of play and fun out in the world. which, makes me somewhat sad. but i won't cry over spilt milk.
ps-- my stuffing was the number one rated. woo hoo!
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