I wish I could say I was happy, but that creeping back pain is back again. Not as bad as it was on Sunday, but believe me...it started out like that on Sunday too where it was bearable and I could tolerate it. I hope it does not get any worse. I think this morning it had to do with my posture in my seat with my heavy winter jacket on. I was sitting in a somewhat akward position and all that driving into work. Now that I'm sitting in the building at my desk (without my jacket), we'll see if it gets any better. At least it's during the week and I can call my doctor's office and they will actually be there.

I am not doing anything fun for Halloween. I am going to work today (most likely late again) and then I am going to go home and rest in my bed again. This has to be the most boring, uneventful thing EVER. I highly doubt there will be any trick-or-treaters in my apartment complex. It just doesn't seem right to be trick-or-treating in apartments when they can just go to the housing development that I live in (I sort of live in a village type setting...it's a housing development with many named sections and my apartments are one of the named sections).

Today is my one year anniversary of being hired at my job even though I've worked here since September of 2004. I was a temp for over a year before I was hired and then here I am today. Exciting, eh? I totally forgot I was hired on Halloween until I remembered that I went into my HR new-hire meeting that day wearing my Halloween costume from last year. Our whole department did an army theme, so I was dressed up in fatigues and all that. We went all out too...we had a whole cadence and we marched for our office. It was somewhat embarassing...lol...we're having a pot luck today though. I do not know if I am going to participate though since I did not bring any food or anything. I don't want to eat the food if I didn't even bring food to give to someone else. Hell, I can barely afford to buy food for myself (but that's another story)...

Well...better do something because I'm moving slower than usual...lol...takes me a tad bit longer to get a few things done.

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Well, today was going pretty okay until about 11 am this morning. I got these horrible pains in my back. It got so bad to the point that I just wanted to cry. I tried laying down, sitting, lying on my back, lying on my stomach, leaning up against the wall, etc to see if it would help and it didn't. Then, I thought...well, maybe if I take a shower and let the hot water do its work, it might go away...nope...it got even worse. It got to the point that I was coughing because I felt so shitty that I needed to throw up and I actually had to physically get out of the shower and crouch in front of the toilet and just wait to see if I would eventually throw up. That didn't even happen...I got up and called my mom (she's my saving grace, I swear) and she was like "call the doctor and go to the hospital." SO, I called my doctor and then I called my friend Melissa to come pick me up to drive me to the emergency room. I called Brian and told him that I was going to the ER and that I'd let him know if he needed to come down there (he's at work right now). At that point, I was in so much pain my legs were weak and I was short of breath (I was this way in the shower too) and I was choking my words out. I went outside to wait for Melissa to get here and I sat down on the steps outside...and the pain went away. I felt nothing...nada...

I called my mom...and she told me to go anyway just to check it out. At that time, I noticed the baby wasn't moving all too much (he was moving all this morning and now there was nothing)...so we went to the ER anyway.

We sat there for 3 hours and the finally checked me in. At the time this crap was happening, my pain was a 10 on their scale of 1 to 10...by the time I got to the ER and into the triage center, my pain was at a 1 out of the 10 as it was non-existant. They checked me out...we listened to the baby (he's still doing okay...nothing out of the ordinary there) and then they checked me out with thorasiac back pain (yeah, I probably mangled that...probably a fancy term for back pain) and sent me on my merry way telling me to rest and follow-up with the OB/GYN. Fun stuff...

The strange thing...I was resting when all the back pain decided to give me grief...I was laying in my bed minding my own business, taking it easy...so, it must have been one of those spur of the moment things. I got extremely worried because they say that contractions usually start in the back and all that. They thought that it might be a kidney infection or something too as those usually trigger pains in the back where the kidneys are, but my kidneys did not hurt. If I had a UTI, I think I would have known...as I've had a few and they HURT LIKE HELL!!

But yeah...now I'm back at home completely...just lounging in my bed like I was before. They did say to come back if I was having the pains again, was getting any cramping down under, or a fever or anything. I doubt it was anything...but it's just SCARY.

On the way back, had Melissa stop at Arby's and I bought her lunch for going all out of the way for me and whatnot...then we went back to her house to watch the Broncos make an immediate good play and then start to suck. Melissa is convinced they started to suck because she got home and started to watch the game. It's so close right now, but the Broncos are up by 1 point...if they can hold out, we may be in the safe zone...but haha...there's still 11 minutes of the game to fuck up.

YUP YUP...I hope my days are not this exciting until, say, January...and I'll actually be going there for legitimate issues (i.e. the baby coming out)...*crossing fingers*

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