Dryer Doors Hate Me

Now I'm totally sure of it, after spending almost an entire day NOT HURTING! (YAY!)My new medication is working. I am feeling better than I've felt in about two weeks, maybe longer.

It won't last but I'll have this to look back on...

But I am clearly still fragile, because as I was bending down to get my laundry out of the dryer today, the dryer door came back and hit me in the shoulder.

You'd say, "Yeah, okay, so what?" but IT HURT. A LOT. Like someone had stuck a knife in it kind of pain.

And then it proceeded to throb, ache, and twinge for an hour and a half AFTER I got hit with the door.

Yeah, it's weird. I have no earthly idea why something so minor hurt for that long, but I am taking no chances this weekend. I am going to avoid smacking into nouns. That means person, place, thing, or idea (can you get smacked by an idea? Possibly). If I'm going to survive in this new, weird, I'm-off-my-ibuprofen-era I am going to need to be much more careful.

Especially around dryer doors.

This also presents a new issue: Shoulder. My shoulders weren't in on the RA game last I checked. When did THEY get in on the fun? Surely the thing isn't spreading, because if it is then the prescription I've been on for 6 months is doing diddly squat and this thing is spreading like wildfire in a Santa Ana wind.

And I will SO be getting a new rheumatologist if this thing's getting worse even with the meds he's given me (next level is steroids. Yay me.)

Wouldn't you know. Mine's aggressive. It was only a matter of time before they had to hand me my doses in needles...

I'm thinking of getting a full-body X-ray, just to see if there's anything ELSE I should be aware of going on in there. I've had my head X-rayed several times, just my teeth and then my whole head a couple of years ago (nothing there-just like I thought) and my feet and hands (all perfect as of last August, save for that annoying bit of swelling on them).

This is insane. It was a bloody, stupid, insignificant dryer door. The little tap it gave me would have made everyone else in this place probably shove it back angrily. ME it causes a ruckus inside that sends me into a philosophical debate over whether my shoulders are going bad or not.

I think I'm going spare.

So, anyhoo, on happier subjects, I will not be posting tomorrow or Saturday because, once again, I'm leaving Harlaxton to go off someplace. This time it's Oxford, Bath, and Stonehenge. Next week we go to Coventry and Stratford and then I stay here for a LONG time...save a few field trips.

Not much else to say; think I covered today pretty nicely. Did my laundry, got hit with dryer door (hashed that out already) and took a test (did okay, I think) and half-packed my possessions for leaving tomorrow (got more to do once I'm done here)

So I will talk to all you people when I get back on Sunday night. Let's just hope Oxford (or Bath, or even Stonehenge) aren't full of dryer doors waiting to bite me...

Cheers,
Bec