wow.
The phone rings early monday morning ...
and I reach over to get it-
and pop my shoulder out.
Now, I'm dead broke
and I've done this
several times over the years.
has to do with a connective tissue thing
and two ligaments literally cross.
(Just like when you cross your fingers)
So my shoulder drops a good two inches
and turns purple
and hurts like a MOTHER.
So since I"m broke
I try to find some way
to put it back myself.
Hot pads.
Cold pads.
Hot showers.
Okay, no way am I takin a COLD shower.
Arnica cream
MSM cream
I can't take aspirin because of the other meds I'm on...
So I've got four days off
and am hurting so bad,
I went until Wednesday night without sleeping.
Finally a friend calls
and says he'll pay the chiro feller
and it'll be my christmas present.
So up I got
and off did trot ...
all I have to do is call this chiropractor
and say 'shoulder'
and he makes room for me.
He's been putting it back now for ... eight? Seven?
years now.
So I told him about all that's going on
and he gets kinda MAD at me
for not coming to him
with fibro.
To be honest
the clinic only costs fifteen bucks
each visit
HE costs forty.
So I told him that.
So tomorrow
I'm calling his office
and we're setting up a visit schedule
that I can afford.
He did some other popping
but said I was too inflamed
to do much that day.
And I'm sporting a big
shoulder bruise ...
but my arm can move now.
It always makes a bruise.
Sometimes
all you have to do is tell the truth.
People, if good people,
will do what they can.
I just have to remember
to do the same for the one placed in front of me.
So I go to my boss's house
for T'giving dinner.
Great food
we watched movies
she's got a hot tub...
so I made sure it really worked, you know....
just a wunnerful time.
About two hours after eating, tho
I started feeling kinda queasy.
So I went home
(just in case, you know)
and sure enough -
yack-a-rama for the next eighteen hours.
Threw up every two hours for nine hours straight.
Then it lengthened out.
But ... NOT fun at all.
Best I can figure -
I have either become allergic to something we ate
(because it was JUST like back wehn I had food poisioning)
-or-
My already stressed system
reacted to something
they were strong enough to handle
-or-
the hot tub has become yet another place I can no longer go.
Because my body can't regulate it's own temp
maybe it let me get too hot?
Then as suddenly as it started .
It just ... quit.
And I was fine.:wtf2
And I thought a 'bad' holiday
was one
at your in-laws ...
hoo boy.
Got a WHOLE new perspective on that stuff!
ha!
