Happy Holidaze

Here we are in my home town for Christmas again… it is so hard to believe that another year has flown by! It was this time last year that we were preparing to move my grandmother into assisted living… And that was a year ago??! Last year I was dealing with my grandmother’s broken rib and this year I am fighting my own demons…
It all started Friday afternoon about 2pm… I was walking across the job site to my truck from the office trailer… intending on a hopefully stress-free drive home since I was leaving in the early afternoon on the last day before the holiday… Then, in an instant a pain shot up from the top of my back up to my neck… It hurt like hell! I started rolling my neck in each direction and the pain kept getting worse. It felt like it was pushing my head downward… I hurriedly got into my truck and cranked up. I knew as I was driving that this was another bout with my neck again… I called the hubby and told him what was happening… he reminded me of his scheduled appointment with our doctor at 4:30… So I drove to the doc’s office and sat in the parking lot until he got there. We go in… the doc takes one look at me in passing and sees my pained face and my tightened physical appearance. He questions me… the next thing I know I am being administered a Demerol shot and hubby is driving me home. I was in bed and out like a light by 6:30pm… Now keep in mind that I was supposed to wrap gifts, bake cookies and go to my Mother-in-laws for Mike’s brother’s birthday supper…. Well let’s just say that NONE of the above happened. I was out for 14 hours! And now almost 3 days later I am still in pain… muscle relaxers and pain killers are keeping me going through the holidays… Yes, I wrapped gifts for over 4 hours on Saturday in a drug-induced haze… I floated through yesterday’s Christmas lunch with my grandmother and my immediate family… And this Christmas Eve morning greeted me with the same amount of pain that I woke up with Saturday… This is the worse neck saga to date… it is the third one this year…I just have to make it through Wednesday afternoon… in the meantime, we are floating…. Merry Christmas every one!