Psychotomy

I’ve been trying to put something up every day, but obviously I missed this week

Partially due to DK being a little extra clingy (soon as dinner’s done I’m ending up playing video games for him, and continuing until midnight (note the time?)). Partially due to the rest of this post

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So, about 3 weekends ago, we went to the DC Zoo, I had DK on my back in the Beco (becco? carrier/wearer). He was falling asleep, so for the Metro ride home, I hunched over so he could have a reasonable sleep surface, rather than sitting straight up. Train was ~30-45 minutes I guess.

That Tuesday, I was stretching a bit at my desk, and suddenly had a ripping searing stabbing pain in my side. A few extra strength tylenol, I managed to call the Doc’s and get a same-day appt (wow). Verdict was that it was a pulled muscle. Pulled Muscles. Apparently, according to doc, I seemed to have pulled all the muscles on my right side. Strained the entire muscle wall and ribs. Have some extra strength aspirin, some muscle relaxants, and don’t pick anything up, like the baby, for at least a week. Yeah, sure. I’ll WFH, and I’ll try to pick him up carefully, but that’s all that was getting. Well, and I took the pain med. The muscle relaxant I never really took :o

That weekend, was feeling better, so when K and I were out during DK’s nap, I went and weeded the front yard. Kinda a bad plan, but I was just sore from work, after, so I figured I was OK.

Next weekend, I drive to Connecticut. 7 hours in the car, including an hour around the GW Bridge in NYC. Stop and stop traffic has my ankle and leg half turned, kinda ow. Then he’s going all over the house and up and down the stairs, so I’m running after him, going up and down ahead of him to make sure he doesn’t fall, etc. Then 7 more hours home (the hour was NJTP accident this time oi).

By Tuesday I had a huge knot in my shoulder. It had started forming Saturday night after the first drive. Worse Monday. By Wednesday I was barely functional. Thursday I slapped an Icy Hot pad on my shoulder first thing I got to the office , and took it off 6 hours later or something. It helped. For the middle 5 hours.

Last night I went back to my chiro. Well, the practice. B/c my chiro is gone. And my replacement chiro left earlier this year. And I don’t like the guy who took over his cases. But I figured I needed the pop, and my last two were MWF guys, so I figured maybe the new one was too. And was right, got a new doc Thursday.

And my neck sounded like one of those ice trays when you crack all the ice to put it in the cooler. crrrrrrrackackack. popopopopopopop. Oh. My. God. SOOOOOO much better. I still need to go back, but *sigh* so nice now.

What I think happened is that I was still favoring my side from the first incident, since I kept aggravating it by weeding and picking up DK. Then driving will tense you up. Driving while (unconciously) tilting or twisting to alleviate (phantom?) pain …. knots up your neck like a gordian!

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