mspammy's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My achey breakey back. Having a bad back sucks. Having a bad back which makes you take off work unpaid sucks more. And having a bad back that makes you take off work unpaid, while your favorite message forums are down sucks to the extreme. I have scoliosis, a slipped disc, a missing vertebrae and one of my legs is longer than the other which makes my hips uneven. Though I sound like a freak of nature, these things don't cause me much pain most of the time. But when they do, I'm bent over like a little old man. I can't stand, can't sit normally, can't straighten out. Basically, I could lay curled up. But not too curled up. And not for too long. ::sigh:: When I went to work on Tuesday (4/27), I felt okay. A little off, but I thought that was normal due to the wacky weather we've been having. By eleven, my lower back was on fire and I was totally nauseous. I left at noon and ended up being home the rest of the week. Fun, fun, fun. I had sixteen hours of sick time to use, but that leaves me with twelve hours unpaid on my check next week. Damn. I went to the doctor on Thursday and got prescriptions for muscle relaxer and big ol' 800mg pills of Motrin. I've been wearing Thermacare wraps for days. The doctor thinks that I strained or sprained something, but I don't think so because I was just working at my desk when it came on. Which reminds me, I've kind of enjoyed not being at work, even though I have been in pain. 5:27 p.m. - Saturday, May. 01, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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