Current location:	home
Current mood:	sick and injured
Current music:	愛の華 - 上田竜也
Entry tags:	life

it never rains but...
SO Tuesday I started to develop a sore throat and felt feverish, but didn't stress over it much - sick I can work through. Wednesday morning my tonsils were looking infected, so I started thinking maybe I should go to urgent care after work.

Then when I was dropping off Maddie and Mark at daycare, I bent down to give Mark his 4th or 5th hug, and my back just went GIKKURI and I couldn't straighten up until I pushed myself up using the table. I could hardly walk.

I was hoping it might go away - once my back was supported in the car it didn't feel too bad - so I went on in to work. By noonish it was pretty clear that it wasn't going away, and furthermore while sitting in my computer chair wasn't that bad, I do a lot more moving around in my job than I had previously realized, which didn't feel good. So I signed out and went to urgent care around 1. Four hours later (holiday weeks are apparently pretty busy) I had my diagnosis: Strep throat AND a badly strained back.

So now I am at home. Someone from work is supposed to call me so I can talk them through what absolutely needs to be done TODAY, so I am sitting in my computer chair, but as soon as said call is over I will be dosing myself up with Vicodin (woo) and Flexeral (muscle relaxant) and lying down in bed with a couple of ice packs. I also have a script of an antibiotic I've never heard of. My throat is completely swollen all the way around, so I am hoping it starts kicking some strep butt pretty soon. I took the kids to their daytime places and am kid-free until 5, which is good because the Flexeral makes me pretty much completely unable to walk, and the Vicodin knocks me out.

As I am a language geek, my main thought right now is that the Japanese word for strained back, "gikkurigoshi." is wonderfully expressive of my current condition.