With 20 years prior experience in teaching and now 6 months of CA and MP casework I am used to dealing with many and varied metaphoric pains in the neck.
However yesterday I woke up with a literal pain in the neck. I honestly don't remember the last time I had neck pain, if ever...
On the one hand I generally welcome a wide diversity of experiences in life, on the other this was, literally, a pain in the neck.
More specifically it was a soreness in the right back part of my neck, just up a bit from the trap.
I also woke up feeling a little ill with a sore throat. Actually I went to be feeling a bit off I was tired.
So despite the relative pain I got out of.bed early ish and went for a walk along the river to Sainsbury's- did some bottle recycling. NB I usually walk to do this it's a nice roundabout route into town.
I couldn't actually turn my neck I had to turn from the waste when crossing the road to check. Also it was a bit uncomfortable to be fully upright. If I hung my head a little it was more comfortable.
Anyway I persisted with the 6000 step circular and got home to laze around.
I was also dead set on doing proper IF today and so drank herbal tea until 2 then had breakfast.
Anyways when I went to bed I noticed I couldn't comfortably lie on either side with my dodgy neck so I just lay on my back.
On waking up in the middle of the night while my neck was stiff the pain was well gone, so I was able to sleep on my side.
And the following morning... again neck a little stiff but I still made it out for a 10K run!
And my neck is basically fine, so I don't know what that was all about...?
It could be cancer, then again it could just be stress, or a few other things in between, so that's about as useful as if someone just hadn't bothered to put together this useless infographic that doesn't really tell anyone anything...
I guess I can rule out whiplash, I KNOW I haven't been in any car accidents lately.
Besides that, assuming I don't have cancer and this isn't one of the symptoms, I guess it is just a reminder to use myself more carefully going forward, and chillax more!
Are people getting iller...? I've been ill about 3 times in the last 6 months, after not being ill at all really for the 6 years prior to that, besides one bout of covid. Maybe bugs have adapted and got harder, that was always gonna happen.
