Tuesday, May 4, 2010

In Traction

Just when it started to look like I'm in the clear, I was laid low by a freak injury which grabbed hold of my neck and wrung it like a dishcloth. Actually it only felt that way ... I couldn't say how it happened but one minute I was typing at the keyboard, the next I was grimacing with pain shooting up and down my neck.

It was the kind of pain, which forced me to stay prostrate for the better part of the day while Subs worked copious quantities of Powergesic gel into my stretched (torn??) muscle. The heat only served to diffuse the pain, and it kept returning, preventing any sort of movement.

This is what I should have used.
Interestingly, the only ruse that worked was the application a bag of rice (we used a pillow case), which moulded to the neck, and held it in place. Apparently the rice has some curative properties of gradually drawing away the pain. While my situation bordered on the ridiculous, I was in no position to argue or even bring scientific enquiry to bear, and so I sat immobilized, rice pillow stuck to my neck.

For two days I kept alternating balm, meds and rice till the pain became bearable. Today I went in to work, cautious, distrusting my treacherous muscle, but it didn't let m down. I spent the entire day favoring my left side and I can tell it will start getting sore, but that's thinking for another day.

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