What a pain in the neck!

Quite literally.

I have this huge stabbing pain in my neck and along my back.  I went to a chiropractor this morning and after X-rays, therapy, and an adjustment....it still hurts.  But, I've been to the chiropractor before.  I know that sometimes it actually will hurt worse before it starts to feel better, so I'll hang on to hope that I'll be feeling better tomorrow just in time to take my class on a field trip.

So today I'm playing hooky from school.  Well, I guess not technically, because when you play hooky, you're not actually sick, and I'm in a butt-load of pain, so it's all very up-and-up.  The worst part of taking sick days as a teacher though, is writing sub plans.  I never know who I'm going to get because I'm too lazy to request a sub that I've had before, so I just play the substitute lottery and get whoever.  That means that I have to assume they know nothing of teaching, and my lesson plans are pages and pages long.  So that's what I was doing this morning at 5:30.  Writing sub plans in the dark, hunched over my keyboard into a position that was the least uncomfortable, looking not unlike Quasimodo on a bad day.

But now I'm home, and I get to do chores that didn't get done yesterday rest.  The upside is that I'm in too much pain to exercise at the gym.  The downside is that I don't get to play on my new Wii Fit.  Oh, curse you, you pain in the neck!!

So today, well at least so far, and it's not quite noon yet, I'm trying to be very conscious of how many points I'm eating and tracking everything religiously, since I don't know how long it will be until I can really exercise again.  Hopefully I'll be feeling better in a few days, and then I will be able to drag my sorry ass to the gym again excitedly participate in all things gym-y and elliptical.  Whee!