Oh the pain...

So Wednesday morning I woke up with this awful pain in my right arm. What on earth was that about. I couldn't even move it without having this tingly pain shoot down to my fingers. Driving to work was a challenge. I didn't even bother backing into my spot. I pulled straight in. I had to use my left hand to put the van into park, and to turn off the van! What is going on?

I got situated at my desk, but couldn't even get comfortable. I could hardly move my mouse. I could type just fine because my arm was right next to my body. As soon as I lifted or moved it the pain was unbearable. I went to the front and grabbed Dr. Renee Ascher's pen with her phone number on it. I couldn't work like this. Not much would be getting done without the use of my right arm.

After I called Renee for an appointment, my ring finger started the throb. What? I looked down at my hand and my figures were swelling. I couldn't get my ring off. What is going on, I kept thinking. I ran to the bathroom and ran cold water over my hand to try and get my ring off. Ah relief. It was a wonderful feeling to get the piece of metal off my finger. I got really scared. I could hardly hold a pen in my sausage like fingers.

At 2 p.m. I ran over to see Renee. She did a spinal scan to see were the pain was coming from. Ah-ha! Just as she suspected. My neck. My muscles weren't very relaxed either. She asked me if I had pain anywhere else. Um, no, not right now. She did adjust my whole entire body. At one point I said to her, "Right now I have a love/hate relationship with my chiropractor." She was killin' me.

She moved me from the fall-out table into the procedure room, where I was hoping she would hook me up the the stim machine. It's a machine that shoots pulses of electricity thru your body to help relax the muscle that is causing the pain. Nope, instead I had to lay on my belly on this long table with a hole for my face to fit it. I laid there for 20 minutes with a very large ice pack on my upper right side of my back. She diagnosed me with a pinched nerve. After the icing was done, and I collected myself up off the table. She helped me get my belongings together and told me just relax. I looked at her and said, "Yeah right. I have to go back to work." We both laughed at that. "Oh yeah that's right."

I got back to the office and showed the guys my scan. Tim said that it looked like a rainbow. Lots of red on it. Not good. Red is bad. White is good. Not much in white on that there scan! Gene said, "Why do you think there is so many red spots on your scan?" I cleared my throat and said sarcastically, "It's from stress and tension." He looked at me with a devilish grin and asked, "Is that coming from home." I looked at him and just pointed in his direction. Everyone laughed.

Today I feel 99% better. My mobility of my arm is pretty much back. I do have problems washing my hair yet, but I'm at least able to use the mouse with out pain. The day after seeing Renee, I woke up with a sore throat and runny nose, so now I'm dealing with that. If it's not one thing, it's another.

This weekend sounds like it's going to be pretty nice, so Noah and I are looking at getting more wood chips to put under the trees where we can't seem to get any sort of grass to grow. Yay! More decorating with pretty stuff.

Well, gotta get back to the job of mine. Thank God It's Friday! Look out weekend here I come!