January 21, 2005 :: 1:12 a.m.
now where did I put that aspercreme?
I'm having a lot of health today. Not
health issues health issues, like say being diagnosed with some kind of cancer or coughing up blood and/or mucus every few minutes or anything crazy serious like that, just... I don't know, little crap that doesn't really fall into any other category. The headache that's had me dragging all day, for example. From the moment I was pulled back into the land of the living by my cell phone blaring out the Super Mario Brothers theme, there's been this dull, subtly throbbing ache going on behind my eyes. I cursed my luck because, of course, I'm out of aspirin and really can't afford to get any right now as my bank balance is exactly $6.70. Then while I was washing my hands in the bathroom I discovered that I actually had two tablets left, which I promptly swallow. Which would be great, except that my head still hurts and now I really, truly am out of aspirin. Crap.
My wrist has also been hurting like a mofo all day. The right one this time, which makes more sense but is still absolutely no fun whatsoever. On a scale of one to ten, it pretty much sucks. Especially because it's not just the wrist. Little rivulets of achy pain shooting up through my forearm, mostly ending around the elbow with a few extremely brave little assholes exploring the vast tundras of my upper arm. And nothing has stopped it, which is really kind of bizarre. I spent this morning reading, not computing, and yet when I headed off to school my wrist still hurt. And it hurt the whole way through taking notes. And it hurts now, while I am actually performing the action that I suspect is causing this problem. This makes sense. The other two? Not so much. I mean, yeah, I do tend to hold my pen sort of vise-like, but it's never been a problem before. At least not this problem. Gah.
There's some other stuff, like how my legs are all achy and stiff when I get up off the couch to refill my water glass and yet after I go running (even the morning after, which is usually killer) they feel stretchy and wonderfully free of pain? What is that? In conjunction with the achy wrist, there's also this big ol' vein on the palm of my hand that insists on sticking out painfully. Ow. And there's this weird bump behind my ear that hurts when I mess with it and is sort of freaking me out.
And you know what? I sound like a scary old lady who has chronic arthritis and has to take 12 pills a day and rub smelly medicinal creams into her liver-spotted skin just to get her through to tomorrow. Which I find extremely frightening. I feel like I should swig some vodka straight from the bottle and flash my goodies at some random passerby to reclaim my youth.
Instead I'm going to get ready for bed and then read until I can't keep my eyes open anymore. Because I am the most elderly 21 year old on the planet, apparently.
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