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All the profound thoughts swirling around in my head for the last week or so haven’t managed to find their way through my flying fingers and onto the keyboard. And now all those thoughts are gone, submerged beneath the nagging pain in my neck, shoulder and upper back. It makes it hard to think about anything else, but I’m not much inclined to try very hard anyway. I’ll deal with the rest of the world after I’ve dealt with the pain.
It’s the kind of pain that could easily have been caused by sitting too long at the computer, but it started Saturday, a day when I didn’t even turn the machine on until late in the afternoon. But even if my job didn’t cause it, there’s no question it’s a source of continued aggravation, after an intense Monday during which I had to do an entire payroll run plus the billing statements for the Kennel. All of that work, because of the way our accounting is set up, is done individually, record by record. Nothing is automatic. Batch processing doesn’t apply. Ow.
I did what I could for myself today. Fortunately, there are ways of sitting that diminish the pain somewhat. I took as long a break as I had time for, and I dosed myself with pain reliever and sat with ice on my neck. That seemed to help. It helped the pain, but it didn’t get any of my work done, so I couldn’t stay at it for long. There are other ways of compensating, as well. I moved my coffee cup to the right side of the recliner, and it made a big difference, taking pressure off the sore left shoulder.
It’s no fun driving when it hurts to turn your head around and look over your left shoulder. I made it to the post office and back, but that’s as far as I felt like going. I have to get to the bank and the supermarket tomorrow, though, no matter what. I haven’t been there in almost two weeks, and I’m running out of (a) money and (2) food. I’m a little intimidated by the tiny parking lot, because you really have to be able to look over your shoulder to back out of a space. I’ll probably need more pills and ice when I get home. |
