$#%@
I just got home from work and I'm running a fever, my throat is swollen and my back only continues to get worse.
So tomorrow I'm giving up
and going to a doctor.
I was trying to tough this out for another two weeks, until after the show...
...but I've never been this close to crying from sheer pain before.
...but I don't have the time to rest either.
(Diagnosis: I've got tonsillitis (fucking again. I am the only person I know that has had this three times now. Normal people just get strep.) and scoliosis. Which they checked me for in the 7th grade as I recall, and I think would've made itself a problem at some point during those, oh, four years I was doing colorguard, or maybe that month I was sleeping on gym floors? I'm going with the pinched nerve theory. I've never pinched a nerve, but I've strained and stressed enough muscles to feel a difference. I go back tuesday, so we'll see if it's still hurting that bad. I'm on antibiotics for the throat, and was told to rest for a week and take ibuprofen three times a day for the back. I rested a day, took today kind of easy, and I've been taking ibuprofen; it really doesn't make that big of a difference. It all makes me remember why I usually don't bother going to the doctor.)
So tomorrow I'm giving up
and going to a doctor.
I was trying to tough this out for another two weeks, until after the show...
...but I've never been this close to crying from sheer pain before.
...but I don't have the time to rest either.
(Diagnosis: I've got tonsillitis (fucking again. I am the only person I know that has had this three times now. Normal people just get strep.) and scoliosis. Which they checked me for in the 7th grade as I recall, and I think would've made itself a problem at some point during those, oh, four years I was doing colorguard, or maybe that month I was sleeping on gym floors? I'm going with the pinched nerve theory. I've never pinched a nerve, but I've strained and stressed enough muscles to feel a difference. I go back tuesday, so we'll see if it's still hurting that bad. I'm on antibiotics for the throat, and was told to rest for a week and take ibuprofen three times a day for the back. I rested a day, took today kind of easy, and I've been taking ibuprofen; it really doesn't make that big of a difference. It all makes me remember why I usually don't bother going to the doctor.)