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I Am Having a Very Bad Day

Third night with no sleep. Hurt my back reaching too high on a shelf. Desperately need pain pills. Took Tylenol and, for the first time in my life, it upset my stomach blowing it up like a balloon.

Headache, bad flare up of arthritis because it is starting to rain. Back screaming with pain but afraid to make sick stomach worse by taking pain meds.

Doctor appointment way too early today. Don't want to describe it but it did not go well at all. Convinced my HMO wants old ladies like me to crawl away and die.

It feels like every part of my body hurts. Thanks if you read this, feeling lonely, sick, tired, needed to vent.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Ohh noooo. Overreaching can be a killer. Stretching just another inch to reach something and it's like a rubber band snapping, like you can hear a tendon breaking free.

My own overreach story was years ago, innocently reaching for a piece of paper on the back seat of the car while stopped at a stoplight. Just an inch further and ZAP! Like being struct by lightening. Ugggg ... it was much worse than the time I slipped on the icy driveway and saved myself from hitting the ground head first by extending my arm ... but shoving that arm into its shoulder socket.

Miraculously, I save myself from too much self pity by the "but for the grace of God go I" people in the doctors' waiting rooms. One was being pushed around in a wheelchair and both legs heavily bandaged. He couldn't push his own wheelchair because both his arms were in slings. I wanted to ask him what happened but his face was puffy and it looked like talking would be painful.

Geez, looking at him, I thought maybe I'd just go home and take a couple of aspirins. But I didn't, and just felt thankful that it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Get well soon!!!