Picked up an injury last Saturday while playing football! What should have been an easy victory over my brother ended up in a draw (2-2) after I sprained something in my neck and upper back. Sudden pain so sharp that I wasnt able to breath or lift my head up, after a while I realized that there was only one position I could comfortably sit. Even the slightest movements and jerks gave me a royal pain in the neck.
Despite the injury I got on with the activity entrusted - went to my native place, dropped off my grandfather. Tried to sleep off the injury but it only got worse after an hours sleep, I immediately left for Hostpital. On the way our car was kissed by karnataka sarige bus, he just came and blessed us with royal sized scratch marks on brand new car ... first scracth ... hurray! It was that sort of day where anything which could go wrong went wrong :)
Finally went to ortho doc, after xrays and other 1000 ruppee worth checkups he told me that it could be because of muscle spasms and gave me muscle relaxants and painkillers (which apparently reduces reflexes of the spinal cord).
I feeling a lot better now but was advised two weeks of rest, no, none, whatsoever physical activity at all ! There goes my vacation plans, tentative bike ride to kanyakumari, etc ... Now thinking of tasks I could do at home sitting.
