Status Report

• Breakfast: cereal and milk.
• Coffee: regular (attempt to find fancy (non-Starbucks) coffee shop on way to doctor was unsuccessful).
• Doctor: made me wait 50 minutes for my appointment. Good thing I got there 20 minutes early.
• Pain level: 9 out of 10.
• X-ray: taken, though not necessary.
• Pharmacy: made me wait 40 minutes for two prescriptions.
• Work productivity: moderate (which is amazing considering the circumstances--I got many pages of a report read in the variety of waiting rooms I visited).
• Lunch: hot dog (while walking to metro, late to a meeting) and the largest bottle of diet pepsi I've ever seen (24 oz!). I only drank half.
• Activity level: moderate--I walked to work.
• Energy level: low--it feels like I haven't slept for weeks.
• Outlook: Positive

The doctor (nurse practitioner, actually) prescribed me some super-duper drugs. The good news is that I just have a muscle sprain and I'm not dying or anything. I have no idea how this muscle sprain came about, but I'm sure my stress level is a contributing factor. She gave me a mega dose of Naprosyn (like Alleve) and a muscle relaxant (Flexeril) to take before bedtime. The Flexeril is so super-duper that I'm only supposed to take half of a ten milligram tablet. The NP said, "Don't drink alcohol with it--you'll get schnockered."

Lady, don't give me any ideas.

Grateful for: prescription drugs.