In the last few weeks I’ve had quite a few aches and pains that were notable. The first one was some lower abdominal, possibly pelvic pain on the left side. It wasn’t constant but it recurred enough that I would have sought out a doctor’s opinion. Then it had disappeared. Next was the lump that appeared in my armpit and didn’t cause any pain although was later irritable to touch. That one also disappeared.

A couple weeks ago I was swimming and afterwards I was really quite sore, such that I wasn’t up to practicing more during the week. Most of the pain was along my shoulder/neck area and I figured it would go away after a few days. There was a shift in the pain and soon it was all about tenderness along my collarbone and that is something I’ve not had before. Last Monday I was at the doctor for other reasons and I mentioned the above issues even thought two had already resolved. She suggested I wait and see what happened on that as this too seemed to be resolving. I only mentioned it because I was already there.

Meanwhile I had made an appointment with my physiotherapist and then cancelled as I didn’t think I needed it. This was all done online. I was called by the receptionist/front desk manager and I mentioned that it had seemed to be gone but then it was back again. So another appointment was made for Thursday morning. By this time the pain seemed to be mostly gone again so I wasn’t sure whether it was worth going or not. But I dragged myself out that morning and went in and it turns out I had an AC sprain in my shoulder. And some movement were actually painful and I had weakness in some movements too. She sent me away after a painful massage and some exercises to do until Monday. So I’ve been doing these exercises and find my hand gets numb while doing them so have to spread them out. It’s not too time-consuming and two of them involve stretches that actually feel pretty good. Three days later my should is feeling better and times and not better. It seems to be hurting more today than it’s been. Apparently it’s a grade one injury and should get better in a few weeks.

I forgot to write about the previous injury. It’s usually caused by a fall or running into another person as might happen in playing a football game or similar. I obviously haven’t done that nor have I fallen down. But there’s a bit of a niggle of a memory that I ran into a corner in the house once not too long ago and it hurt a lot at the time. But then I forgot about it until later. I thought it was the swimming that set this off but it seems that might have just aggravated it. So that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it! :D

On top of all that, I’ve had a stomach bug or something since Friday. The Scientist and I had plans for yesterday but had to cancel as I wasn’t up to going out. Even today I stayed home from a lunch at my MIL’s place. I am better but my stomach is still quite sore and I really don’t want to pass along anything contagious. So I’m alone at home with the dogs.