Greetings. I'm wide awake even though I have to be ready to get on a plane at 7am. My cousin, bless his heart, is picking me up on his way to work to drop me at the airport.
He'll be here around 530. Ugh.
In other news, I hurt my back on Sunday. I was shopping for a swimsuit top at Walmart. Could that be more pathetic? I wasn't even trying the damn thing on. I'd found a bottom I liked, but was looking for a tankini top. I reached for the lower shelf and snap.
Something very unpleasant had happened in my lower back. I remember uttering a sharp bark/squeak of pain and then leaning heavily on my shopping cart.
OY. I bought the bottom but have no top to go with it. Dang. I figured I'd be able to go get something later.
I made it to church, where I made it through the service (at which I was playing) by laying upon the floor with my feet up. I made it home. Barely. I had to call my brother to bring/cook/serve my supper.
Misery.
Enough of that though. It is getting better, I had massages, got some excellent drugs from my doctor, finished the abstracts for the meeting I am going to in Brazil in august and basically worked myself to death.
Also I found a cane that has sparkly butterlies all over it. I don't need it all the time but the breakthrough pain in my back makes me nervous. If I have to walk far, I want the damn cane. The moments where I move wrong and it seizes up with intense unbearable please kill me now pain for (admittedly, small) amounts of time make me nervous. I do not wish to fall down.
So I'm leaving my blackberry at home BUT I am taking my guitar. Hoping they'll let me gate check it in Edmonton and pick it up in Los Cabos. I am a little nervous about it going missing but that's why you have insurance.
Speaking of insurance, I think I have diving insurance IF my back is well enough to do the diving. I have my snorkel and mask packed. I have my referal papers. Heck, I even printed out my itinerary. I never do that. But I plan on loading up on painkillers once I get on the plane and they make me LOOPY.
So best to have something that has my information written down. Just saying.
With that I am going to bed. Not sleepy but tired and it hurts my back to sit.
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