Major Pain Explained

I have been suffering awhile from the oddest and most annoying pain.  It started sometime around when I was staining and finishing all the ceiling lumber back at the beginning of November. 

Hard to describe, but it was something like being stabbed under my right arm with a red-hot steak knife. Not pleasant. I treated it with ibuprofen, ice packs and rest.  I called my plastic surgeon and talked to the nurse, just to make sure it wasn't some danger sign that I didn't know about but needed to let them know about. The nurse said, "No, doesn't sound like anything we would be concerned about.  It sounds to me like you pulled a muscle." It went away.

Then, my first morning on the trip, when I woke up at Jean's house, I did a morning stretch and it came back.  This time, it wasn't random, it only came on when I moved a certain way.

Yesterday, Kellie got me an appointment with her chiropractor. Instant relief!  I had a dislocated top rib (in the back), and he crunched it and popped it back into place.  The muscles around it are weak and outraged, so I'm still a little sore, but what a difference!  Ahhhhhhh......

He said to keep that arm quiet for awhile, so Kellie and I went to the gym and did aerobic and lower body workouts (sparing the arm movement), then came home and enjoyed our post-exercise endorphin rushes with a dinner of sushi and white wine.

Life is good. (Getting old and dislocated bites).