I'M INJURED

[jenni_blog]

Couldn't go to work today. Yesterday I did something to my back and today I can hardly move. It's awful...I can't bend down at all and it's difficult to even turn. I remember reaching down to grab a file from a lower shelf at work yesterday and when I stood up my back hurt on the right side and in the centre, over the spine. I was okay the rest of the day, but it was nagging me. Then when I got off the bus and was crossing the road, it seized! I mean it was like a sharp pain that just grabbed me in the middle of my back. I almost couldn't walk the rest of the way across, but I managed to make it. Thank god Eddie was there with the car to pick me up, but it took me awhile to lower myself into the seat, until the spasm was over. In the kitchen I was spasm-ing over and over. Eddie rubbed Voltaren on it and I took an extra-strength Tylenol.

I slept okay, but it's now stiff and sore and so are my legs! I don't know WTF it is. I am not used to being injured and in pain and I can't tell what this is...I would think probably muscular, but I really don't know. I've never had anything like this in my life. The only injury that's ever happened to me is a torn tendon in my left arm a few years ago.

But thank god I can spend a few minutes at a time at the computer. I have to get up and walk around, though, otherwise my back feels like it wants to seize. I know I am a big baby. I am just not used to pain.

:(

Comments

[sophiamoon.livejournal.com]

It's not the part of the job I enjoy the most, this embarrassing pouncing on anyone who looks remotely interested in my novel. ;-)

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

LOL...of course not. It must be quite embarrassing. But it's very necessary, so you will have to suck it up and make yourself do it. :)

[sophiamoon.livejournal.com]

It just had to happen to me, both not actually liking the whole stuff that comes after being published and having the philosophy that a story is only really finished when the reader reads the words and interprets them.

Hey, I should write aboyt that in my writer's blog.

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good subject for your writer's blog!

[sophiamoon.livejournal.com]

I seriously consider writing it sometime this week.