Oh, my aching back ...

I'm sorry I missed everyone yesterday. I ended up in the ER around 5am and for the rest of yesterday, I was a complete zombie. It started around 9pm Tuesday night when I felt myself getting a stomachache. I don't usually have stomach pain, so I figured it was something I ate. I went to bed early hoping it would go away. It went from stomach pain, to pain and pressure in my sternum. Then it turned into full blown muscle contractions in my back. I've had this before, so I knew it was going to get bad. I took some Motrin, but that didn't help. I took one of my old muscle relaxers, but that didn't help. There wasn't a position I could get into that wasn't painful. If I laid on my back, my chest hurt and I couldn't breathe. It was miserable. The last time I had this was when Rick was down in Helena last September. I had a really bad night that time and had he been home, I would have gone to the ER. I think that time I finally fell asleep around 6am. This time, however, I thought I could get through the night again. I was wrong. I finally had Rick take me to the ER around 5am. They gave me a shot for the muscle spasms, some morphine for the pain, another pain med and something for the nausea. Needless to say, I was a zombie yesterday. All I did was lie in bed and drift in and out of sleep. There are a lot of fun blogs that I follow, so I apologize for not being around to comment on them. I hope to catch up soon. We're pretty sure this back pain is caused from hunching over in a C-position while typing on my laptop. I do that way too much, so it's weird how this pain comes and goes every few months. Once it starts up, I'm doomed. The best way to describe it is like severe back labor pain, but without any relief in sight. They did an EKG on me too, probably because I was complaining of pain in my sternum and they wanted to rule out any heart problems. I got some prescriptions though, so hopefully if it happens again, I won't have to make the trip to the ER. On a positive note -- because I wasn't hunched over my laptop yesterday and wasting time on message boards and Facebook, I managed to work on a new picture book idea I had. I got the first rough draft written -- in longhand, on paper even. I still feel out of it, but I am hoping I can at least get through school today. Thanks for listening to me whine ...