Pain in my neck

so one fine day, i wake up with.. lets say.. discomfort. and then i realise that the pain i had thought i had been dreaming about, was in fact real. the only explanation i could have was, i don't know! the official explanation was i probably didn't sleep properly on the pillow, coz i generally avoid using one.. but the real one is a mystery..

in the beginning i didn't pay a lot of attention, it was just another sprain, nothing to worry about. i was sitting at my laptop, whiling away my sunday afternoon as usual. but soon, i moved to the bed and i convinced myself that it was just me being lazy and had nothing to do with my neck. even though i never work on my bed, coz its too small. unlike in the past, particularly in pune, but never mind that..

gradually it started getting worse, till the point that i couldn't move it at all! and if i tried, i would get a sharp shooting pain up the muscle, and i would be immobile till it passed. that scared me enough to ask for help, to take painkillers, to apply the ointment and take bed rest. thankfully it was a sunday afternoon and wissam and tariq managed the team presentation, which was due the next day. else it could have been worse. and thanks to the many suggestions of medicines and posture in general, it got better. there are still traces of the strain left, but now it doesn't inhibit neck movement.

all that happens, happens for the best. and the neck strain is another example proving this. not only did it encourage wissam an tariq to feel confident about making ppts, but it has also corrected the tilt i always had in my neck. i am serious! every time i got a passport size image clicked, the photographer would first ask me to straighten my neck and then ask me to smile. :) funny how things work. wonder why it was only my neck that was strained and nothing else?! and then you give ppl more reason for humour. right from robocop imitations to finding more creative reasons about the "positions" that may have led to this strain. what better service than to make people laugh?

and finally the small pleasures of life. it feels great to turn my head to all angles again! when i stretch and the spasm doesn't come anymore.. then to see friends from as back as school respond to you, with you so much as having sought a suggestion.. touching.. tissues anyone? or maybe i should put that on facebook and smile when ppl respond :)