Ow, still

[selenay]

My back is definitely borked. Ow. Called in sick to work. Hopefully this will follow the usual pattern from when this happened two years ago and get better in a day or two.

For now, I'm doing lots of gentle stretching and range of motion exercises to stop things seizing up now that I've finally made it out of bed and I'm trying not to curse too loudly. Argh.

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[fyrdrakken]

Sorry to hear that -- hope it does indeed get better in a day or so.

[selenay]

I was supposed to be hosting a Royal Wedding watching event tomorrow morning, but cannot get out to buy the supplies :-( It's being shifted to a different person's house just in case I'm unable to get up and let people in tomorrow. What stupid timing!

[paranoidangel]

*hugs* although what does borked mean? I've only ever heard Hilary use the word before.

[selenay]

Broken. Messed-up. Buggered.

Something along those lines :-) I'm not sure where I picked it up...

[paranoidangel]

Ah, I wondered if it was some sort of bizarre misspelling of broken. I like buggered best though :)

[gmul.livejournal.com]

I've not checked but I suspect the Swedish Chef has something to do with it...

[paranoidangel]

I didn't know there were any famous chefs that were Swedish. Although I'm not good on chefs (cookery's just not that interesting).

[selenay]

Er, have you never seen the Swedish Chef on the Muppets?

[paranoidangel]

No, I'm not into the Muppets. As a child, as far as I was concerned, Kermit was the only one worth watching and I had no interest in any of the others.

[selenay]

I can't say that I've watched the Muppets a lot, but the Swedish Chef is one of those pop culture references that seems to come up a lot. Of course, I'm sure there are ones you grasp that I've got no clue on as well...

[paranoidangel]

Oh, I've never heard of it. But I don't get most pop culture references these days because I just don't watch the popular stuff (or adverts).

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Oh no, poor you. The bed in my apartment is a lot softer than I'm used to and somehow my neck doesn't always appear to have liked how I've been sleeping. There have been a couple of times when it has clicked in disturbing manner when I've moved my head incautiously.

Hope the kittens aren't disturbed by your cursing and you feel better for weeding watching. The coverage here is pretty much wall to wall and proving largely impossible to avoid...

[selenay]

I hate that "trying to adjust to different mattress/pillow" neck pain. It's one of the reasons that I've often taken pillows with me to hotels (not practical in your case!) and it drove me crazy when I first moved to Canada.

Now my old bed in the UK threatens to murder me and I love getting home to my lovely bed here :-)

The wedding was a lot of fun to watch and my back is easing up a lot. That's quite a relief. I'm not sure that I could cope with yet another set of tests, procedures and craziness just as I get the colitis under control!