I am now officially in pain.

Yesterday it was a slightly annoying and uncomfortable knot in my shoulder. Today it is officially painful.

I haven’t been sleeping well this week, for no discernable reason other than, perhaps, my excess caffeine intake. Tuesday night I was actually sufficiently awake to notice that I was sleeping full on my right shoulder and that it hurt, but not awake enough to do anything about it.

The result was that I screwed up the muscles in my right shoulder, basically compacting them up into my neck. Leaving a big uncomfortable knot which only partly worked itself out over the course of the day yesterday.

And then last night I made it worse. I didn’t sleep well again, and I felt my shoulder and neck scream every time I turned over. I was trying not to sleep on the shoulder, and in doing that I suspect I over-compensated and just tossed and turned the big knot into a big, really painful, can’t move in certain directions muscle strain.

Ah well, I’m just going to keep applying a heat pack and see if I can’t get it to work itself out again. It doesn’t feel like something I should need to go to the physio for, but if it doesn’t fix itself up in the next couple of days I might have to resort to outside intervention, particularly given that shifting large boxes around is currently part of my every day packing routine.

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I have resurrected the old blog into an all fashion all the time event. Everything from the usual big event commentaries – though some of those will continue to appear here – to just bits and pieces that float across my screen from time to time.

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