What a pain!

I woke up on Monday morning with cold and damp, and a bad pain in my right side ribs. I couldn’t figure that out, since I certainly didn’t “over-do” on Sunday. I made a pie, watched TV and talked to Missy. Talking to Missy might have given me a pain, but not in the side (just kidding, babe!)

Anyway it was an attention-getting pain that grew to a sharp, stabbing pain whenever I got up from a sitting position. WTF?

But I got ready (it felt good, but not that better in the shower) and went to work. I also noticed it wasn’t as bad if I was holding and pressing on my ribs. Weird.

I noticed too that the electric seat warmers also made a difference both going to work and then back and forth from lunch. But it went steadily downhill all afternoon. To the point I feared getting up and going to the bathroom and I have to do that a lot. I barely made it outside and drove the seven miles home in light snow.

Here’s what I did when I got there: I changed from my clothes into my robe. I dug out the heating pad and I took a pain pill. I went directly to bed and spent the next 12 hours adjusting the heating pad, watching TV in spurts and dozing every now and then.

Here’s what I didn’t do: I didn’t get on the computer. I didn’t make any dinner (I nibbled on some leftover dressing around 10:00 PM) and I didn’t get the garbage ready for Tuesday morning.

I did notice the rain got steadily worse and the lake out back has reappeared (the ground here is already saturated from Sunday’s two inches of rain, so this rain has no where to go). I turned off the lights and TV at 1:00 AM and slept occasionally until the alarm went off.