You see we had a terrible scare here at our castle last night and this morning.
The last few days I have been having some sharp pain in my left arm along with some muscle weakness. Then it started radiating to the front left side of my chest last night and getting progressively worse. It started to even hurt when I exhaled with each breath.
Then about 3am this morning I woke up with the most excruciating headache of my life. I seriously thought I was dying of a brain aneurysm caused from the stress of too many kids home for vacation. Shut up! You know how it is when you start searching WebMD for self diagnosis! Suddenly a sniffle means you have some third world disease within ten minutes of browsing!
Also I need to say that my family on my moms side has a long history of heart disease and I have had some problems myself in the past with tachycardia. The headache was so bad that I was dizzy and The Sir had to help me to the bathroom this morning. I was crying and nothing was helping. I could barely lift my arm and the pain in my shoulder was bad.
Did I call an ambulance? Hell freaking no! I haven't shaved my legs in awhile and I wasn't spending what little bit of money we had left until next payday for the outrageous co-pay for the 45 minute ride to the hospital!
So I stuck it out until late this morning. We went down to the Urgent Care in town and they were very nice and understanding. They did an EKG and it came out normal. No problems with the ticker.
Then the Doctor asks that all important question. What were you doing right before the pain started the first day? Have I done any strenuous exercise recently?
I looked at the Doctor and told him that I was playing our new Xbox and playing dodge ball on it. He said that I had severely strained/pulled my muscle along the back of my neck and left shoulder and it happens to run up to behind the left ear.
That is right folks. It seems I freaked out over a pulled muscle. I got a shot for the inflammation -- which my daughter thinks is hilarious because it was given to me in the butt with no lollipop afterwards -- and given a prescription.
Moral of the story:
EXERCISE IS BAD FOR YOU!
I always knew this was true and the Doctor just confirmed it for me!! That damn Xbox is evil I tell ya!
4 comments:
The Royals are very happy you are going to be ok.. you worried the hell out of us..
now.. take a few days off then get back to work.. funds are low.. we bought Vet and damn Kingdom... well we stole it .. but it was expensive to clean up..
Very happy all is well...and I will look out for the evils of exercise and avoid it at all costs ;).
Good heavens girl. You had us all worried to death. I for one am glad that its just a muscle pull, but you know what kind of muscles that need "pulling".
bahahaha yes yes exercise is the devil.. thats why ive been avoiding it LOL! Glad it wasnt anything serious!
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