The Sneeze

Everyone sneezes right? You go about your daily routines and sneeze once in a while and just keep going and not even think about it. At least I use to.

Last week I was sick with a nasty head cold. It went through it's long drawn out road to recovery and I was just about over it when the big sneeze came along. I immediately knew something wasn't good because I grabbed my stomach under my ribs and yelled "ouch" ! I had sneezed hard.

So I went through the weekend being careful not to move the wrong way and allowing the area to feel better and my cold was clearing up well. Then two days later I'm relaxing watching a movie on TV and the big sneeze came again. This time I yelled enough that Jim jumped out of his chair to see if I was alright. It felt as though my rib was coming out of my skin and going back in to jab whatever was in the way!
So the next day I was still sore and since I couldn't get an appointment with my regular doctor that day decided to go to urgent care. That's always such a fun place. First of all you have to drive around in circles for 15 minutes to find a parking place. Then you get to sit in the waiting room wondering what illness you are going to catch from the others sitting in the same room. I finally get called in to see the doctor. Being in urgent care means that you see whatever doctor is on duty. So he asked me questions and had me lie on the table and poked around in all the sore spots and then said "well, you pulled a muscle".
I was relieved to not hear of hernias or things like that and a pulled muscle was pretty familiar to me.
So I paid my $10 co-pay and my $3 to park in the terrible parking garage and came home.

Before I left the clinic the nurse told me to try to brace myself if I felt a sneeze coming on. :) Ok, so as long as I'm not driving maybe I can do that.
It's one of those things that you just don't think about until you have to!

I'm feeling much , much better now and the pain is pretty much gone but I know that one of those sneezes could bring it all right back so soon after so NOW every time I feel that tiny tingle in the sinus area I have to drop whatever I'm doing and grab myself around the ribs and hold on tight!