Another Day, Another Diagnosis

This morning started early for me--like four a.m. early.  (And let me mention that I am not a morning person.  I am a night owl.  So four a.m. is not user friendly to me.)  At four I rolled over in bed and had pain shoot through my neck and down my shoulder.  And it hurt like madness.  And it wouldn't go away.  (And neck pain is one of those "don't mess with this" pains.)  So it was off to the ER with me.

Well, after paperwork and poking and prodding, the doctor determined that I have myofascial pain (basically a massive muscle spasm that creates a tender point and can act as a trigger point sending shooting pain).  His suggestion was to inject lidocaine into the muscle.  And let me tell you, the injections hurt even more.  But my neck was numb for several hours, and I'm able to move much more easily.  But now, many hours later, the lidocaine is wearing off and even the skin over the muscle is sensitive.

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow (which will require me to miss half of one of my linguistics classes, which doesn't make me happy) and we'll see what happens from that.

Tradition...

'Tis customary, I suppose, to initiate a new blog with a description of why one is blogging.

So behold, here I am.  I have registered to my name at this moment over a dozen blogs.  So why do I need another, you ask?  I'm actually consolidating.  I'm joining my two presently active blogs here.  So while this is actually my first post here, there will be many posts dated older than this one as I transfer them over from my other blogs.

This blog may contain anything from school to medical stuff to knitting to whatever else strikes my fancy.  So here we are.  Yay for us.  (Oh, and happy National Sarcastic Awareness Month.)