The Problem of Pain

Author: Syera Faelron, July 2018

The journey of pain is an excruciating one. Especially when you’re silly enough to bring it upon yourself.

This was my journey for the last two weeks. My trapezium and deltoid were, as we say in the UK, buggered.

YES!!

Turning my head around was extremely painful, I am sure I looked like badly animated video game characters when they move. [For those who have played Skyrim you might remember how some NPCs couldn’t move their heads in conjunction with any other parts of their bodies.]

So how did I get this pain you ask!? Well I carried a rather heavy tom cat [in a carrier] to my vet, via walking and train, to see if he had a microchip. Whilst doing so my lumber region was aching like an achy thing. The following two weeks I couldn’t do much. Turning my head that way, moving my neck and generally waking up was meh!

Yes the look on this fellow's face is exactly how I was for two weeks. Which not even a hot bath could cure. A feigned look of horror every time I had to turn my head and general feeling sorry for myself. At one point I considered the doctor, but it went soon after that.

So in the end the cat had no chip, but at some point been neutered. He was just as glad to be home as I was in the end, well I say home as he has semi adopted us or we him. Lesson learn’t though next time damn well get a taxi to wherever it is with a heavy object, animate or inanimate.

For two weeks I consoled myself with a rewatch of The Vampire Diaries [my not so secret cheesy tv addiction].

Yes Damon Salvatore [Ian Somerholder] you may be able to turn your damn neck, but I couldn’t!

So while this piece of typing is in essence a non advisory topic, I do advise against improper handling of live animals of any nature and always find the nearest vet to you. As checking for a microchip can be done anywhere!!

And if you do find yourself in this same kind of pain, have hot baths, drink wine or vodka if you partake or herbal tea if not (or both!), and get one of those chiropractor massage thingymajigs. Demand people bring you tea and cake, get takeaways, and binge out on something fun!