This is a little late, since it was over a week ago, but I’ve been wanting to write about it so bear with me….
Sometimes I forget to floss. This is very bad if something gets stuck in there, and gives you that annoying shooting pain that runs down your gums and into your neck.
What’s worse is having that happen at work with no floss. The pain is bad enough that I’m constantly tilting my head to right in a futile attempt to alleviate the pain.
Fast-foward to the end of the day, and I finally get home and floss out the offending bit of matter. The pain subsides only to reveal that craning my neck all day has left it stiff, sore, and ooooh so painful.
Flash-step to the weekend. I decide that my TV viewing angle isn’t ideal, so I buy myself a nice TV tray. Being the lazy bum that I am, I try lift the TV and slide the tray in there. Now mind you, the TV requires two hand to lift, so my hips have to do the ‘shoving the tray under the lifted TV’ bit. Predictably, this fails miserably. It fails RIGHT ON TO MY TOES. I feel a pain I haven’t felt in a long time: the kind that not so much hurts as echoes excess sensation in a small region. I’m now flat on my back for a good hour. The only up side is that the pain is masking my previous back pain. There’s bruising, but I can walk, so if my toes had broken, I don’t know it (still don’t, they seem fine now).
So the work week rolls around again, and I succumb to either a light nasal/throat infection, or a rather nasty case of allergies. Either way, I’m not feeling all that good all week, but at least I’m not noticing my toes or back anymore.
Come Friday, the weather has turned towards freezing, there’s even a bit of snow! I’m just getting over my cold, after a late night of sniffling. I walk outside in my groggy state and notice a patch of ice right in front of my porch. “Odd”, I think as ponder it. “Look at those white specs, they must have salted it for me. I think I can confidently take a step on it……” The next thing I know, my vision gets blurry (my head has fallen out from under my glasses), my feet are flying into the air, and I’m straighting my body so I fall flat, instead of on my coccyx. I imagine it looked much like a classic banana peel slip.
So now my back hurts, my chest hurts, and most of all, my head hurts. I think I must have sustained a slight concussion, because the world was tilted slightly to the left for most of the morning. I suffer through work, come home to take a slight nap, and feel much better after going out for some sushi.
I wake up the next morning, my head is nice and refreshed, and I didn’t die from falling asleep. Then I get up. You got it, my back is now hurting like insane. Any movement at all, and pain shoot through my shoulders and into my arms, and bounces off my fingertips. In this condition I drive to Houston! By the time I get down there, I’m much better. After a good nights rest, the should pain is mostly gone, and my head feels almost normal.
But as I sit up, I realize that there’s this sharp pain at the base of my sternum. Every time I sit up, I have to roll sideways, or pull myself by hooking my arms under my legs.
What a way to start the New Year! I hope I used up all the bad luck.
Chuc Mung Nam Moi (Happy New Year! (In Vietnamese (without diacriticals))).