Binary Tuberculosis

It’s been a week and a half, my neck/upper-back pain has been having its ups and downs. Today was supposed to be my first 5.5 mile race, I’m pretty positive I’m skipping it because I’m really really hurting today and it seems to be getting worse as the day goes along.

So I’m honestly going to go to the doctor Monday if it doesn’t get better, 2 weeks of non-stop pain, that’s all I can take I think. My sleep has been junk too and not to mention I can’t go running either.

Gawd I hope there is a physical reason for all of this, because if I go to the doc and she says it’s all psychological or chalks it up to stress… punch in the face!

Tags: body, doctor, running

I was in love last night, I was ready to propose… “Will you marry me ibuprofen?” I was ready to ask. Well it’s a good thing I didn’t, it one-night-standed me up.

Last night before I went to bed I tossed a pill. Great, much better, still hurts, can’t do yoga or anything, but a lot better. Woke up this morning around 10am, in pain. No biggie, my lover shall save me. Took a pill… hours later, still in pain.

What the hell?

I’m thinking if this doesn’t get better by Tuesday morning, I’m calling in sick and going to the hospital. I Googled ‘neck pain’ and ‘running’ and some of the hits mentioned spinal injuries, freaked me out, just because I’ve had muscle pain before, but it has never been this bad or lasted this long.

Hmm, or it could be cancer. Does cancer of the neck exist?

The most annoying thing? I can’t even take a leak properly, just because I can’t look down to see if my penis is at the right angle or not, makes the post-leak shake a bit tougher too.

The second worst pain so far? Drying my hair with a towel after the shower. I just ended up putting the towel over my head and hoped I could maybe sponge up some moisture. The worst pain, tossing and turning in bed, I swear I’d die for a few minutes every time I’d turn my head on the pillow.

Pray for Mojo.

Tags: body, running

I woke up out of breath around 5am this morning. Why? I had turned to get on my side while sleeping… it effing hurt. After I calmed down a little, I took about a minute and half to get out of bed ever so gently, grabbed two pills of ibuprofen, and gulped them down with some water (I am extremely grateful to my strange need to always have some water available on my desk nearby).

Woke up again around 9am, I guess the ibuprofen wore off. I’m not a fan of ingesting medicine (call it a fear of building up a tolerance, same reason I try not to ingest much caffeine) so I haven’t taken any more. I probably will, because just standing up is a huge effort. Maybe just one pill if it gets too bad.

Gawd, I feel like an old man.

Needless to say my trip today is canceled. I feel bad because I was supposed to give two of my friends a ride to NY too, they now have to make other arrangements, most likely Greyhound or the Fung Wah.

I’m going to be spending the entire long weekend in front of the TV, a book, or the monitor, which is fine by me.

Maybe I’ll ring up some of my doctor friends for some free medical advice. Do you think that’s rude? They’re friends right, they wouldn’t care. Hell, I ping Letters all the time for legal advice, he doesn’t give a shit (do you Letters?). Ironic since my sister is a lawyer. I know I wouldn’t care if people called me up for any Bioinformatics or Computer Science questions, I sure as hell know I average about one free consultation a week from my friends about tech advice.

Tags: body, travel

I went to get a haircut after work, no big deal, but with this neck issue (see the post below this one), I was dying. Poor Jody, she felt so bad asking me turn my head or look up and down, she did the best she could with the chair and doing acrobatics herself for my haircut’s sake.

Her theory was that it was allergies that settled around my neck and upper back, thus giving me extreme muscle pains. (Her first theory was stress at work, which isn’t really true, I love my job, it’s gotten “busier” lately, but no stress there). She tossed out the usual remedies… ice, massage, etc. I figured, a good run would fix everything, I mean, endorphins you know? They rock.

I got a second opinion from a friend as to why I’m in pain. Stress. Yeah, stress. What the hell do I have to stress about? And if it was stress, ice-cream and sleep would’ve taken care of it when the pains appeared earlier this week. I have literally gone to get ice-cream three times this week (Lizzy’s twice and JP Licks once) and am pretty sure I’m getting the normal amount of sleep, normal for me that is, so the aches should’ve left me by now. Nope.

I literally just finished my run… dude, bad idea. Now I can’t look down, I seriously have to keep my chin parallel to the floor and I can look up about 30°. As for turning my head left and right? Oh those were the days… That’s bad enough, but now, even keeping my head seriously still and staring at the monitor while I type this, I hurt.

Endorphins screwed me.

Tags: body, ice-cream, running

Ow.

I’ve been sleeping weird or something, since Tuesday my neck and back have been killing me. I don’t know why, my pillows and my sleeping style haven’t really changed. I haven’t run in a couple days cause I’ve been a bit busy, but that shouldn’t matter, skipping a run never hurt this bad.

So the pain has gotten exponentially worse. Today I can’t even look up or turn my neck horizontally without my torso following it. Think it’s worse now than it was this morning. Help me Jobu!

It’s going to suck tomorrow. Going out of town for a day, driving 8 hours will definitely be torture (4 hours each way). At least I’ll have an amazingly lazy Sunday and Monday (go Memorial Day, score!) to just sleep all day, read books, watch movies, and order out.

Got my fingers crossed that my neck doesn’t pooch it to me.

Tags: body, running, travel

I had some time to kill yesterday and was messing around with this site so I decided to add a forum to the blog. It’s most likely going to go unused, but it’s a good place to shoot the shit if anybody gets bored. Plus I got to learn how to setup and use bbpress.

Enjoy… Binary Tuberculosis Forum

Tags: forum

Hello first of May…

1. Sister’s birthday today… go her.
2. I’m burnt, blog hiatus-ing… hoping it will last at least a week before I succumb the urge to post something inane.
3. This Landon Pigg song (which I lifted from his MySpace page) is stuck in my head:

Tags: audio, birthday