About four hours ago I threw out my arm.
I’ve thrown out my back plenty of times. You know that your back is out because without warning some muscle springs out of place, sudden pain, and now your legs don’t work.
Well, I was typing away, and then suddenly I sprang a muscle, awful pain, and my arm didn’t work. No more typing with that arm. I used my other arm to type a message to my boss and took to my bed with a heating pad.
I was horrified, because I need my arm, and it wasn’t responding as it should. Just disconnected. Sprung.
Gary diagnosed me with an air-conditioning cold in my arm. He did have the ac set four degrees lower than usual because the earth had delivered a fifty-degree temperature swing during the day. I propped myself up in bed. He positioned the heating pad, wrapped me up in a blanket, and went back to his nap.
I really started to wonder if I’d always be like this when my hand began to go numb, so Alexa and I had a nice talk about torn rotator cuffs and pinched nerves, and she suggested I put my hand on top of my head and see if that felt better (no).
By then I was lying on my non-sprung side and I fell asleep for three hours. I woke up and … I am fine.
Hand isn’t even numb.
So what the hell.
2 responses to “Well that was terrifying”
Pinched nerve that sorted itself out during relaxation while you were asleep? I do not know, but also yes, yikes!
KC – Well, I did check, and you can have a pinched nerve that resolves itself in hours. Usually we only hear about the ones that send people to the doctor, I guess.