September 14, 2007

Pain-o-Meter

The pain in my shoulder/neck is off the charts today.
It's SOOOOO incredibly frustrating as I've been doing everything that the doctor recommended and the pain seemed to be getting better. Then something went terrible wrong this morning when I turned my head and I now want to SCREAM the pain hurts so much.

It feels as if someone shoved a giant sword through my neck and into my shoulder.
And I have a high threshold for pain.

Taking PAB's advice, I have scheduled an appointment with a second sports medicine doctor on Tuesday.  I just hope I can wait that long and I wonder how I am going to make it up Mt Tam tomorrow. Is it safe to bike while on Vicadin? I am going up that mountain tomorrow even if it kills me. I overtrained last year and ended my season early, so I could not do the race. I am doing the race this year no matter what.

2 comments:

X Bunny said...

you shouldn't go downhill on vicodin, but uphill should be fine

Mark M said...

just don't turn to look behind you and you'll do great.