Tuesday

3.20.01

God, am I miserable. I've had a neck pain since Saturday that has prevented me from doing anything normal. I can't work out, I can't sleep on my side, and I ate pizza tonight out of boredom. I am so bored.

I went to the doctor today and, $220 later, feel no better than I did before. I was told to lay, stomach-down on a cot for twenty minutes while this compress was put on my back. It was hooked up to a machine that made my back hot and tingle. It may sound relaxing, but laying stomach-down with a 4-day long neckache for twenty minutes was very uncomfortable.

Finally, the doctor put me on another cot, back down, and cracked my neck to the left, then to right. Crack! It sounded horrible. Then he cracked my back, something S has done to me before, and I've always hated it. I don't like my body to "do" things without me making them do them, you know what I mean? It freaks me out. I even said, several times to the doctor and the nurses, "I'm freaking out here." They thought I was cute.

Anyway, it all boils down to my computer-desk posture, which is lousy. My parents bought me an early birthday gift-- an ergonomic desk chair.

Did I mention I haven't worked out? I'm going nuts. The only good bit of news that happened today is that they're opening a Goodwill Superstore right down the road from my house.