The human body is weird...

Freak stuff happens to me at night...

Last night, about 12:35 (to be exact) I was semi-conscious and went to roll over in bed and felt a POP between my shoulder blades but a little higher and it took my breath away!  I couldn't move and felt panic start to crawl up my spine.  I didn't want to wake hubby so little by little I started moving to see what I could handle.  I ended up sort of plopping over to the other side and rolled out of bed.  Everything had stiffened up and it hurt like hell!  I gingerly walked, all humped over, to the bathroom to dig up some ibuprofen in hopes that it was a muscle spasm or something, as an after-thought, I grabbed the Aspercreme and tried to put some on the spot.  I put a glob of it on my hand and tried to reach where the pain was...no can do.  

I made my way back to bed and was awake off and on the rest of the night (as evidenced by the bags under my eyes) 

This morning I have better range of motion and tried stretching shoulders and neck to see if I could feel exactly where the pain was and it wasn't until I turned my head to the right....HOLY CRAP!  I know EXACTLY where the pain is...but still can't reach it.

Same type of thing happened to me many years ago, was lying in bed, a stay at home Mom at the time, hubby was leaving for work and leaned over to hug me goodbye and I heard a "SSSSS...POP!" and was in the most excruciating pain I had ever been in!  It took him literally 45 minutes to help me out of the bed, I was crying and no matter how I moved it was killer.  Ended up seeing a chiropractor friend 3 times a week for several weeks....(I don't think what he did helped, I think it was TIME that healed it) and ever since, I have hurt it in the same place over and over.  (one time I was in the shower, was going to shave my pits, looked over to see what I was doing and POP!  Happened again!) That time it was my neck and shoulder.

What the heck IS that?  I feel like I hurt this same spot another time, I remember this feeling. Is it a muscle, ligament....elastic band....WHAT?  

UGH, gonna be miserable sitting at a desk all day.  I never know what is best, ice, heat....vodka! (too bad I'm not a drinker, I would be feeling no pain right about now)  

Musings of a modern day Mamaw.