duh!!!
I am not happy with myself right now. It seems that I cannot have a birthday in an even year without getting into some type of trouble.
case in point: in 2007, the day after my birthday, i fell into the bathtub. landed on my elbow, which bore the brunt of the impact, but I still hit my face and got a pretty big knot on my forehead... for the rest of the month i looked like a battered boxer. my face was one huge bruise. and the hospital, those jerks never gave me a cat scan...bastards! I now realize that I could have died from that fall.
so here it is, a couple of years later and guess what!? I spent the early hours of Easter Sunday in the hospital. the same hospital that overlooked me two years ago. i was in a lot of pain. shoulder, back, neck and arm. naturally i was displaying symptoms that said one thing when i was sure it was something else.
so after blood tests and x rays and many questions~they were sue i fell, i was sure i had gastritis~ it was determined that i had a pinched nerve. so i get three injections, an anti~inflammatory, a muscle relaxer, some morphine for the pain and at my insistence something for gas.
I was diagnosed with systemic lupus in 2000 and the doc wanted to make sure i wasn't having a flare up. I was more concerned that it was either my kidneys or my heart~ made the mistake of entering the symptoms on web md...it recommended i dial 911~ or worse, the big c! i was so relieved when he said pinched nerve. WHEW!!!
Ironically, i remembered a few hours later -- after some much needed rest, that i DID have a fall... last september, half asleep, i FELL OUT OF MY BED... duoh! *smacks self* ~ i fell out of my very high bed reaching for something... i was all entangled in my covers and they kinda cushioned the fall, thus alleviating a more violent impact. however, i totally forgot the incident happened. but my shoulder didn't, it remembered, in a very painful way.
now i am floating on pain killers and have to go get physical therapy for my shoulder.
the moral of the story is... don't mess around.. seek help immediately.
and yes i am very relieved that it wasn't something more serious.