3059 Protect Yo… Neck?

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These weirdos are a gaming group. A gaming group that is only going to get closer over time… This is their starting point.

I hurt my back really badly over a week ago. At first it wasn’t too painful but over time it got worse and worse until it was excruciating. If I laid down on my right side it would exacerbate the issue even more and I sleep on my right side at this point in my life. So I was sleeping even worse than I already was from all the worry and stress. I could barely get up off the floor. Longtime readers will know that I’ve done this exact same injury before. I waited until I was SURE I wasn’t going to be asked to randomly do anything and took half a muscle relaxant to try and break the cycle. It did stop things from getting worse, but the problem is that it made all the other parts of my body not work very well. My body seems to function nominally at a certain level of tension that relaxation disrupts. Maybe I’ve existed in a state of fight or flight for so long that my body simply feels like that is my default now. I’m not sure, but it’s very much the reason I avoid taking relaxants until the need is DIRE. I reached that point and have spent two days dealing with the fallout. It was so bad that I actually took two halves over the course of two nights. My back finally feels like it’s starting to heal, although each morning there’s a period of pain where I adjust to being upright again. Tonight I don’t think I’ll need any medical help. I really worry that I will eventually hurt myself bad enough that it will require medical intervention. I’m not sure how I would navigate that.

Anyway, I did nothing for Halloween, as usual. There weren’t even any good shows to watch this year. I played Animal Crossing and then realized there was a Splatfest on so I took part in it for a bit. A reader added me to their Nintendo family account so I can play online again. I wouldn’t normally do that but I decided maybe I would just stop fighting everything so much now. If someone makes an offer to be nice I think I’m just going to start allowing it instead of saying no because of whatever weird family hang up causes me to instinctively say no to offers of kindness. I’m trying to remember the username, but I can’t. My brain simply isn’t processing correctly right now. I took a screenshot so I could refer back to it. Of course I can’t find it because I take so many screenshots now… Whatever. No point in getting annoyed. I’ll remember eventually. They are in my little list on the Nintendo account so I can look there.

I think I’m ready to try and sleep maybe. Or maybe just start the process. In any case I’ll see you on Wednesday at some point with more comic. Until then, pull out a nose hair to feel alive.