Kiss My Back and Make the Pain Go Away

[dotinthesky]

I couldn't go to work today, for good reasons. Saturday night, I was sitting in the TV room when I felt a jab in my back, as if something underneath the skin had been torn. It didn't feel particularly bad until 5 in the morning when I woke up and told Kevin that one of my kidneys had failed. Some invisible demon had broken one of my ribs, sharpened it like a pencil, and was plunging it into my left side. I took the last of my Nurofen and tried to go back to sleep.

Sunday was a pathetic comedy show starring me, where I couldn't stand up or roll out of bed without the help of Kevin or one of the Sissys. I kept taking Nurofen but the pain never really went away. I called the office this morning and left a message saying I would visit a doctor. But after a mid-morning bath, my back seems to have improved. Kevin is probably right: I pulled a muscle by sitting for a long time in an uncomfortable position.

I've been to the library today but couldn't decide on what book to borrow. I've hit Tesco Express and bought our dinner (I'm making a pasta sauce with bacon and mushrooms). I've got a quiche lorraine in the oven right now; it's calling me with its house-filling scent.

Here's a backdated post:

Review of Friday's Button Down Disco

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Have you checked your bed for lumps, etc? Might be that. I had a bad futon in Montreal that screwed my back; I had to take swimming lessons to fix the scoliosis I developed.

I might start reading the book on Genet you sent me. I went earlier to the library but no luck.

[twinner.livejournal.com]

I had used the same mattress for 15 years & had no problem until my sister brought me this completely unused super quality, super expensive one that had just sat in her mother-in-law's storage room until she decided to move; it was so hard,initially, that I felt as if I was lying on the floor. I finally got used to it after a few months, but like I said if I lie upon it too long, my back acts up; Thanks, but there are no lumps. Just a warning: the book by Sartre about Genet is truly an excellent work about Genet, but like many French works says in 100 words what can also be said in 50; just a suggestion, you may better enjoy one of Genet's novels.....

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Cool. I've decided instead on King's novel. Feel like something about more breezy after Hollinghurst's novel. ;)