in other news, crowdsourcing a health care question
For the past, oh, few days? maybe a week or so?, I've been feeling a sort of achy twinge in my back. I think it's too high to be the hip acting up from where I fell down the stairs at my brother and sister-in-law's house last fall and too low to be a kidney--but I could be wrong about that. And it is on that side where I banged up my hip and where several years ago I had a kidney infection. (I have all this trouble with all the diodes down my right-hand side. I've asked for them to be replaced, but ...)
Anyway. Dull achy twinge that isn't seeming to go away. It feels a little bruisy when I poke at it (not very hard), but it doesn't feel warm under my hand or inflamed or in any way worrying like that. It made it hard to fall asleep last night because it was hard to get comfortable, but it's really just sort of mid- to high-level discomfort, not actually pain.
And it's Thanksgiving in two days.
I'm rocking the electric heating pad here at my desk and contemplating a massage (maybe for Sunday). What else, if anything, do I do? (Is it a kidney? Should I be more concerned?)
Anyway. Dull achy twinge that isn't seeming to go away. It feels a little bruisy when I poke at it (not very hard), but it doesn't feel warm under my hand or inflamed or in any way worrying like that. It made it hard to fall asleep last night because it was hard to get comfortable, but it's really just sort of mid- to high-level discomfort, not actually pain.
And it's Thanksgiving in two days.
I'm rocking the electric heating pad here at my desk and contemplating a massage (maybe for Sunday). What else, if anything, do I do? (Is it a kidney? Should I be more concerned?)