Wednesday, March 23, 2022

neck and shoulder pain

I've had a pain in my neck for a few days, now—probably the usual compressed vertebrae. I've watched some physical-therapy videos on YouTube to figure out how to deal with that pain; the videos help, but only a little. The pain is on the right side of my neck, so lying on my right side, with my head elevated, stretches my cervical spine enough to relieve some of the pressure. The problem, though, is that my frozen shoulder is also on my right side, so when I lie on my right side, I'm stressing my shoulder at the same time that I'm relieving my neck pain. See the problem? If I roll over to my left side, my shoulder gets relief, but my C-spine is in pain because I'm now stretching the wrong side of my neck.

Old-people problems. And it's only gonna get worse from here. Grumble, grumble.



3 comments:

Charles said...

I am waiting for the day we'll be able to buy brand-new bodies to download our consciousness into.

(Don't ask me what that actually means. I'm just dreaming here.)

Kevin Kim said...

Pretty close to the scenario in John Scalzi's novel Old Man's War.

Charles said...

Yeah, it's a popular sci-fi trope.