Update on the head and neck!

[sistermagpie]

Don't you love people who think you're interested in details about their health? Well, here are the details on mine.

There's a girl in my office who's also an EMT and generally has knowledge about...well...everything. A simple question to her on any subject from toadstools to terrorism will almost always get a complex, information-filled response, sometimes with weblinks.

I knew she's once gotten a massage therapist to come to the office so I asked her if she could recommend any place around here for me to get a neck and shoulder massage at lunch because the head and neck pain has been completely unrelenting. I wake up each morning expecting it to be gone, only to have it come a-throbbing back minutes later. It's making me nauseous, off and on, but I've been able to eat. I've tried little things to make it go away, rolling it up against things in a massagey-way, lying in the plow position etc., but nothing helped for more than a few minutes. So she asked me what kind of massage I was looking for and I just got as far as, "See, my neck has been killing me here..." when she starts describing to me exactly what I'm feeling, how the headache is, how I started rolling my shoulders to compensate, how it sometimes moves to behind my eyes and into my jaw yadda yadda yadda.

Turns out she has had it to for the same amount of time, as has her husband and his partner. She's pretty sure it's not a crick at all, it's a virus. Isn't that weird? Well, I thought it was interesting. And good, too, because this means it will go away and I no longer feel crazy for feeling like a crick in my neck made me feel sick. I would also like to think this explains the amazing typos I've been littering lj with recently. Yes, it must be that!

Okay, so it's not the most exciting thing in the world but hey, who am I to compete with UL14 anyway!

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rp_zeal_/]

Silent laughter at your last comment because hey, I don't think people usually compare the interestingness of their state of health with that of a slash fanfic chapter =D

Are you sure a *virus* is better?? Doesn't it sound creepy? So, what did the girl do about her neck pain/potential virus infection? Do you want to go to a doctor? I've all sorts of weird discomfort around my head area (and scarily sometimes behind the eyes too!) and I sincerely hope it only means I'm spending to much time in front of a computer... Anyhow,just think a doctor visit might help ne.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Sadly, there are probably many slash fics out there so badly written listening to somebody talk about their corns would be more interesting!:-)

Being on the computer usually makes it worse (I say as I settle in to spend lots of time on the computer...). It's not really bad all the time, though. If it persists I guess I will have to go to the doctor, but I'm hoping it's just working its way through different muscles on its way out.

Get well soon, Magpie.

[tinewen.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that you are not feeling well, Magpie. Whatever it is that's causing the pain and discomfort, I hope that you are soon feeling better and yes, maybe it would be a good idea to see a doctor just to be on the safe side. (Tin being very Samish, here!)

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Re: Get well soon, Magpie.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Sam would be proud of me. I went for a full body massage today. Then I stayed for a facial.

I think I should bring both people (the masseuse and the facial person) to the Kitchen for the hobbits. Even Sam, after much grumbling and protesting, would probably love it!

[samaranth.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that your head and neck problems are continuing, magpie. I hope everything is much better soon. :)

(I'm curious - what is UL14?)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Thanks Sam!

UL14 is chapter 14 in Maya's lovely Harry/Draco fic Underwater Light. (http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Maya/Underwater_Light/) :-)

[md-jess.livejournal.com]

That is interesting actually. I hope it all gets cleared up soon.
:)UL is so addictive isn't it?

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Oh god, is it ever. ::Fangirls Maya::

sounds terrible

[petitesoeur.livejournal.com]

i've been going on & on & on and you never said anything about not feeling well.

bad friend i am -- sorry.

maybe its related to the weather -- everything is molding & warping from all this moisture

hope you start to feel better soon

Re: sounds terrible

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

No problem! I think it might be the weather too. (I think it's just about anything anybody suggests, really!) Like I said above, I ended up getting a full body massage (the crick somehow spread down to lower in my back after my dance class) and a facial. Very very nice. I was trying to go to the place you recommended. This is going to be addicted, I can tell.

the zen of pampering

[petitesoeur.livejournal.com]

ah, the addictive glories of the zen salon -- it's the most expensive place in the neighborhood but it's worth every additional penny. the best beauty treatments provided by a pleasant staff in an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere.

it's so amazingly spacious, elegant & immaculate.

i adore being able to gaze at the mini-aquariums while i'm being estheticified