Pain

I should be in bed sleeping because I'm exhausted but I'm waiting on the cd Vince made for me to finish uploading to my Itunes. For whatever reason the last three songs have taken about two hours to upload. Ridiculous! Luckily I don't have to be up early because I called into work so I can go to the doctor's in the morning.

Oh yes...you read that right. I have to drag my butt all the way downtown to campus to go the student health center because I can't use my health insurance anywhere but there. I managed to pull or twist something in my back on Thursday or Friday and the pain has been getting progressively worse over the weekend to the point that I literally could not sit up this morning when I woke up. I've been wearing icy hot patches since yesterday afternoon and taking aleve and extra strength excedrin like it's candy. With the patches on I can function and my back just feels stiff, as if I've sat in a car too long, but without them, I can't sit, stand up straight, or bend over without being in excruciating pain. I thought it would go away by the time the weekend was over and instead it just keeps getting worse so off to the doctor I go tomorrow. Ugh. I wouldn't care so much if I could use my insurance somewhere closer instead of having to drive the 30 minutes to campus just to see a doctor.

I spent the weekend in Athens visiting Vince. I hadn't seen him since my birthday and he's stuck in Athens over winter break working so I drove up to see him for the weekend. He was such a good sport putting up with my whining and taking care of me when I was in so much pain last night and today. He's the one who insisted on the excedrin and the icy hot patches and for that I'm grateful because they made it so I could actually enjoy my weekend.

When I got in on Friday night we went to Wal-mart to get stuff to cook dinner together, which actually turned into Vince cooking dinner because I had set the fire alarm off at work that afternoon. Oh yeah, you read that right too! I was heating up my kid's lunches and my own and managed to set the fire alarm off. We're still not sure what happened because I hadn't burnt anything but it still went off. At least it added some excitement to the day and like my boss said, it got our fire drill in for the month!

So back to Friday! Vince cooked us dinner and then mixed up our brownie batter while I washed the dishes from dinner. Once he had the brownies in the oven, he ran out and picked us up a bottle of wine for our movie night. We spent Friday night just laying on the futon watching Eat Pray Love while drinking the wine he had bought. After the movie we laid in bed and talked until we fell asleep. It was the perfect start to the weekend.

Saturday I had planned to stay in my pjs and work on a paper while Vince worked but our friend Krys wanted someone to get food with and persuaded me to get dressed and go out in the cold with my two favorite words in Athens: The Diner! She knows my weakness because I love The Diner and their breakfast food. It's definitely an Athens thing so of course I was persuaded to get out of bed for that! We sat and chatted for over an hour over brunch and it was so fun catching up with her. It gave me so much comfort to know that no matter how much time passes or how far apart we are, most of my college friendships have remained the same and for that I am grateful.

After brunch I worked on my paper for a couple of hours until Vince got off of work and dragged me to Wal-mart to return our Red Box movie and to get the icy hot patches. We stopped to pick up pizza for dinner and then it was right back to my paper I went. By 7:30 last night it was finished! I changed clothes and we met up with Krys and headed out to one of the local bars to celebrate me being done with my paper and to hang out. I had four drinks over the couple of hours we were there and the three of us had fun laughing and catching up. There are some ridiculous stories from last night but all in all, it was a much needed night out with two of my favorite people.

When we got back to the apartment, we laid in bed and watched Rent, after which I fell asleep and had the best night's sleep that I've had in over a week. For whatever reason I just sleep so much better when I'm in Athens than I do at home. I wonder why that is??

I woke up today and my back pain had gotten so bad that I literally could not sit up because it hurt so bad. I was in so much pain that I was in tears walking around the apartment. After taking three aleve and putting the icy hot patch on, it finally started to fade. Sometimes the pain feels like there's a giant knot in my back just above my butt (sorry tmi I know) to just being sore across my lower back from hip to hip as if I've bruised it. That's how it feels right now. I have an icy hot patch on it right now that I plan on sleeping in so that I can actually move in the morning, though I have a feeling I'll be sore anyway. I just honestly do not know what I did to it.

Once the pain started to fade, we headed uptown so I could pick up a couple of OU t-shirts. Vince also talked me into buying some extra strength excedrin which has helped immensley with the pain I'm in. Then we headed to lunch before going back and flipping between the first half of the Browns game and the first half of the Bengals game.

I got home around 5ish and have done nothing but sit around for the most part. Megan took me to Wal-mart earlier so I could get some more icy hot patches and some stuff for my lunches this week. I took a nice long hot shower when I got in which helped loosen my back up a little but now it just hurts again. I'm really hoping there's something the doctor's can do for me tomorrow because I can't take much more of this pain.

I'm so glad my boss was so understanding about me being out tomorrow. She even turned it into a joke and made me laugh, which was good because I felt horrible about calling in on a Monday of all days. I'm going to try and make it into work after I go to the doctor but we'll see how it goes tomorrow. Right now on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being no pain and 10 being excruciating pain I'd say I'm about a 6. I'm just miserable so I think I'm going to go sleep it off.

What a way to start my week. At least I had a good weekend with one of my favorite people, even though it was slightly pain filled. I'm just grateful that Vince took such good care of me and put up with all of my whining over the pain I was in. Just another reason why I love him. :-)

Ok...bedtime for real now.