Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Intense and Debilitating Pain

Emergency: I'm having a serious problem with my neck that I slept on funny two nights ago.

Do you want to know why I keep sleeping funny on my neck?  It's because Mac is always getting in my bed and forcing me into strange positions.  Last night I told him that it was actually physically hurting me to have in my bed.  He seemed sad about that and stayed in his bed all night long.

In the meantime, I can't even talk or swallow due to the pain in my neck. I thought about crying over the pain in my neck, but that seemed futile and also like it would hurt.  I thought about going home to lie still on the couch, but the building sub is busy all afternoon.  Teaching is tough that way.

So, I'm seeing a medical professional in about 30 minutes over my lunch hour.  Let's see if she can fix it right up, shall we?

5 comments:

LH said...

Please keep us posted on this. Poor you!
Teaching is the worst profession when you're ill.

unabashed liberal said...

I hope by now your neck is feeling much better.

KC said...

Bad news on the neck front: the pain is going to last for awhile. She said she thinks there's a good chance I could be feeling marginally better by Friday. It's called torticollis. Meanwhile I have spasms and pain and hold my neck while talking to my students.

Not cool, Robert Frost.

mm said...

Yuck!!! Torticollis... now that's a new one... take care.

LH said...

It's also called Wry Neck. At first I thought I had it as well, but I don't.
I'm really sorry to hear about this.