24. Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp

My neck hurts.

And it isn't so good.

Woke up this morning with a sharp pain in my neck and the overwhelming feeling that I could just not move my head. It was a pain on the left side of my neck that was as fun or as exciting as I ever imagined it to be (i.e. it was not). It’s a frightening feeling when you wake up and can't move, and my thought-process ran something like this:

(Ouch, ouch, ouch, what the hell is this? I can't move my head, this is not good, ouch, ouch, I'm still tired, maybe I should just ignore it and go back to sleep, ouch, ouch, ouch) x repeat.

Missed a few lectures (which are taped thankfully), a very important yaa mentoring meeting (which was not taped thankfully) and a whole day's worth of productive assignment doing. On the flip side, I managed to watch 2 episodes of west wing, catch up on sleep and I was introduced to 'Ammeltz Yoko Yoko'.

Ammeltz Yoko Yoko, or 'Yoko Ono' as my mother has decided to call it, is a type of cream/lotion that is applied via a roll-on device similar to roll-on deodorant for stiff shoulders and muscular aches. Its effect is a lot like Deep Heart but this has the added benefit of being an Asian medicinal remedy, and we all know that Asian remedies are just better. Not to mention that my mother gave it to me to use. So it’s got the whole mother-knows-best thing going for it too.

Well isn't this an exciting topic of discussion.

I'm sorry, must be all methyl salicylate that has been absorbed through the skin into my blood. I'm hoping that this is a good thing.