Saturday night, sore and in definite pain from my back, turned me into a broken person! I bent down to put on some pants and pulled up when something in my spine definitely moved or popped or slipped in the wrong direction. From there, I flopped myself onto my bed and decided to just watch some Friends and fall asleep. Sunday morning, I was determined to go to church so, despite the inability to really find a pain-free position, I headed off to church. I wanted to cry all day! So. Much. Pain. Ironically, it was International Day of Happiness. Boy, am I good at covering up pain.
I called it quits after second hour, even after Aubrey kindly massaged my back on the nursery floor, and went home to lie on the ground. I texted my host fam and said I'm upstairs and not able to move. They were kind enough to bring me some tea and dinner on my floor while I went through about two whole seasons of Friends in three days.
This definitely isn't the type of job that you can call in sick from but I was given two days of modified walking to school with the kids. I went to see a normal Dr who did me nothing but gave me some Ibuprofen where we spoke the last half in French. Next was an Orthopedic Dr who spoke very little English so I did the whole appt in French (!!!) and he actually helped me. And then a massage therapist who helped me relax the muscles around the spine. I have never spent so much money on Dr appointments! Of course, since I don't quite have insurance yet from the pain-stakingly slow Securite Sociale here, it was all out of pocket for me. But I guess you can't really put a price on feeling better. Huuuuh.
At least the weather was improving! That lifted my spirits a bit. Spring has arrived!!!
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