Knocked up...Or is it laid up

I was "cleaning" last night as we were having an out of town guest over for dinner. Cleaning to me means I was taking all the crap lying around and throwing it in closets and behind closed cabinets to create the appearance that we're neat people. (If you ever come over, please don't open anything as you could get injured.) Anyway, my "house cleaning" techniques aside, I was pretty uncomfortable yesterday - pain in my back, butt and down my left leg. I put some crap in the ottoman and clearly bent over wrong because all of a sudden I was seeing stars and could hardly walk. I was doubled over in pain and almost in tears. The remainder of my evening was all downhill from there. I've never experienced pain quite like that (well, maybe when I dislocated my elbow but they gave me drugs for that), it was awful. I spent the night in pain, rolling over was excruciating, I couldn't get comfortable and this morning I could hardly walk.

First thing this morning I got on the phone to a chiropractor. I spent some time on ice (icing the wrong body part) and headed to the doctor. Of course, this is all very common, it happens to pregnant women all the time. He bended me and twisted me and flipped me all over the place. I don't know if it helped but the short term assessment is that it didn't. I do have to go back tomorrow. And then probably all the time for the next 3 months. Whatever. As long as I can walk and sleep, I'll do whatever it takes.

Oh, a dream note. I don't remember the dream and what it was about but I do remember a heaping plate of bacon, eggs, potatoes, and toast. Hmmmm, gooood.