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[annathepiper]

Ugh... staying home today, not because of yesterday's vague feeling of coming down with something, but more because I've done some really painful to my neck and need to go see my chiropractor. And hopefully also my LMP. I'm also going to have to stop carrying around my messenger bag, unfortunately, much as I like it in general; the thing's been dragging at my neck, and since it's a one-sided weight, it's really not helping.

This started hurting some time last night, so I slept really badly. So I'm sore and exhausted. Not a good working combination. Now I get to hang around at home this morning and hope that I get some calls back soon from the messages I've left.

On an up note, though, I see I have picked up a new reader. Greetings to l_prieto!

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[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

::gentle hugs:: Take it easy today. Hope you feel better soon.

[annathepiper]

*snugs back* Thank you! Had an appointment with my chiropractor a couple of hours ago, and it has helped considerably. My neck and shoulders are still a bit stiff and aggravated, and I'm still loopy from lack of sleep, but now at least I'm not in active pain.

I think I'm going to go get my herbal neck pillow and heat it up and use that for a bit. That'll help too!

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

This must be the week for people not being able to sleep, for any variety of reasons. Your neck. My students are prepping for midterms so none of them are sleeping (that's been fun, let me tell you :]). I haven't been sleeping well at all, for some unknown reason.

Mmmm...warm pillow. That sounds blissful! Enjoy!

[annathepiper]

Oh joy midterms! That's one problem I don't have any more, thankfully. :)

These days if I'm not sleeping I find it's usually either stress, illness, or else I've screwed something up in my neck or back. Like today. ;P Hopefully I'll sleep better tonight, though.

And yeah, the pillow is fabulous. I nuke it in the microwave for two or three minutes, then wrap it around my neck, and it smells all soothing and herbal in addition to being warm and cozy! Mmmmmmm. :)

[l-prieto.livejournal.com]

Hi to you too :)

I'm sorry to hear about your neck, though. I hope you've had a chance to make an appointment with your chiropractor.

[annathepiper]

I see on your userinfo page that you're part of the Writer's Weekend crowd--yay! I don't think we met at the last one, though?

I did indeed get to go see my chiropractor. She called me back not long after I got up, and I had an appointment with her a couple of hours ago at this point. She shook some stuff loose deep in my neck, and while the muscles are still kind of tight and aggravated, they're not in active pain now. So progress has been made!

[l-prieto.livejournal.com]

We met briefly (in the hall. At that conference, I think we're all destined to run into one another in the hall ;).

I'm delighted to hear that you got to see your chiropractor, and that she was able to ease some of the pain. I hope it continues to get better.

[annathepiper]

Heh, yeah, either the hall or in the crowd that gathers around the booze!

I just had a call from my massage therapist, who will also be able to see me today. Yay! I wasn't expecting her to have an opening in her schedule, but it turned out that just after I called her, she got a call from another client who had to cancel an appointment at 5:30, so I get to step in. So she'll be able to work out the remaining stiffness issues I've got going on, I think.

In the meantime I have a nice herbal neck pillow. Mmmmm.

[l-prieto.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

Congrads on getting the second appointment :)

[annathepiper]

Thanks! :)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon.

[annathepiper]

Thanks! Had a chiropractic appointment this morning, which helped considerably, and I'm going to go see my massage therapist in another hour or so. Which should also help a lot.

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

I have a messenger bag, too, recently aquired. Sometimes, when it's dragging on the neck and bothering me, I do that across the body carry, then pull the strap down over the arm, so the strap rests below the curve of the shoulder, and put the weight of it behind me, in the small of my back. It does pretty well for my neck that way, if I have to carry it a long ways. You might want to look into one that can be carried the normal way, or as a backpack, so that when it starts bugging your neck, you can switch up.

[annathepiper]

Well, I've had backpacks before, too. They've bothered me in different ways, and so have fanny packs. The only real solution I've managed to find to this problem so far is to just make myself carry less extraneous crap. ;)

So I've punted down to my red purse for a little while. I'll see how that works. Though the only problem with this is that I don't have something I can reliably carry a paperback book in. I may have to see if I can buy a teeny tiny backpack, a bit bigger than my purse, just enough to accommodate a book.