Help!
This will be quick because I have just finished my 13.5 hour work day which included taking 120 girls to the Newport Aquarium and AMC Theater to see Over the Hedge (which, by the way, I fell asleep during - decide for yourself if that is a statement about the entertainment value of the movie or a result of a crazy week of running around camp).
I am looking forward (since you can't hear my voice I must inform you that this is said with sarcasm) to my day tomorrow which begins by getting to a bus stop in Northside (its near downtown) at 7:30 and being the "bus monitor" for two hours until we arrive in Maineville (its near Kings Island). I will then run around camp all day and board the bus again at 3:30 for a two hour trip back to my car. Awesome. But its okay - because I'm doing it to help Leslie out and she SO deserves it!
Anyway - the Help plea refers to lingering pains in my shoulder/collar bone. I woke up yesterday with a pain in my shoulder/collar bone/neck and assumed that I over-stressed it dunking shirts for tie-dye or slept on it funny. It lasted all day. I woke up this morning and it was worse. By this evening it hurts to: pick up things heaver than a piece of paper with that arm, raise my arm above shoulder level, open my jaw too far (yeah - that one puzzles me too), or move in certain ways.
This pain is a total mystery to me. Here are some possibilities that might explain what happened:
- Old football injury.........oh, you have to have actually played football to have a football injury?
- Leslie is a voodoo doctor in her spare time and has a doll that looks suspiciously like me with several pins in its shoulder.
- Randy has pent up frustration stemming from his secret unfulfilled dream to be a cage fighter. The frustration manifests itself in dreams during which he sleep-kicks my shoulder.
- Its growing pains. I'm finally getting my growth spurt. Watch out, Brooke - here I come.
If you have any insight on the nature of my agonizing shoulder pain, please let me know. I'm open to suggestions. For now, I better go to bed to gear up for tomorrow's day'o'fun!
posted by Kimmie at 10:14 PM
2 Comments:
Ouch! Trust me, I know about neck and shoulder pain! (I think I'm putting my chiropractor's kids through college.) If the vertebrae in your neck get even slightly twisted, (say, from dunking and wringing out a million t-shirts; or just from the stress of holding emotions all scrunched up in your shoulders (I NEVER do that!) it wrenches the muscles in all of those areas, from your jaw down your neck, into the shoulders and collar bone.
Alternate ice(for inflamation) and heat(to relax the muscles), and if it continues more than a couple more days maybe you should see a chiropractor...and maybe a massage therapist (oh darn). Maybe massage first to loosen up the muscle before the chiropractor tries to move bones. Chiropractors are still pretty reasonably priced - if insurance doesn't cover it - they usually have a "cash customer" price - mine is only $35/visit - after xrays and all that, of course.
Good luck - hope it feels better soon.
10:46 AM
I'm voting either for the voodoo stuff or the growth spurt. But I'm not a doctor, so I don't really know.
8:52 PM
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