My job is about 90% mental and 10% physical (I work for IT MSP), but on Wednesday this week the office remodel had a major cleanup to do and I got roped in to help and ended up working all day on physical labour, more than once transferring piles of boxes each more than 30kg up multiple flights of stairs solo. By the end of the day I was a complete physical wreck.
On Thursday we carried on from Wednesday, we had done most of the hard stuff on Wednesday, but I could barely grip the boxes anymore and I somehow managed to bang my head over a dozen times on just about every surface. By half way through the day I was ready to *push* any poor bastard who got in my way and I was lifting things by hooking them with my wrists because my fingers were useless. My body was barely listening to me anymore and having to keep pushing despite all the inconveniences just made me more and more angry, but the company owner asked me to help out and if I didnt, this one poor guy would have had to do everything on his own (which is just not right).
Today, finally back on IT work I only had 80 boxes to put into our storage in prep for some system rebuilds for several of our clients, a relatively easy job, and that's when my side exploded with pain. I have been having intermittent excruciating pain in my side for about a year, in all this time none of the doctors I have seen seem bothered in finding out whats wrong and I have been prescribed no pain management, and despite badgering both my local hospital and GP over and over I still have no clue what the cause is. Every test says I am perfectly healthy, and every doctor seems happy to leave it at that and I have to make another appointment myself. Anyway, back to today, my side started hurting around midday, and by 1pm I could barely move, by 1:30pm I was curled up in a ball using every ounce of my will power to keep from screaming (this is coming from someone who walked on a broken foot for 2 weeks as a kid before complaining to anyone about the pain). I didn't bother going to a doctor, because that didnt work the last 3 times I had tried (they make me sit in a waiting room for several hours, then get a nurse to suggest ibuprofen) so I just toughed it out for about 4 hours until the pain was back down from hellish torture to around severe cramp levels, my eyes were red from blinking back tears, my whole body was shaking, and the only thing to do was get back to work because after a year of this, if I went home every time it happened I wouldnt ever get anything done.
So after these last 3 days my body is completely drained from wednesday, my mind from thursday, and my spirit is well and truly crushed from today, all in all leaving me feeling fragile and drained in every way.
Oh, and edit: My side still hurts even now, not enough for me to be unable to ignore it, but enough to make me think it is going to flare up another few times before it goes away properly again (it does this, every now and then it will make me wish I were dead for a few days, sometimes as long as a month will go by between it happening, sometimes only a few days)
On Thursday we carried on from Wednesday, we had done most of the hard stuff on Wednesday, but I could barely grip the boxes anymore and I somehow managed to bang my head over a dozen times on just about every surface. By half way through the day I was ready to *push* any poor bastard who got in my way and I was lifting things by hooking them with my wrists because my fingers were useless. My body was barely listening to me anymore and having to keep pushing despite all the inconveniences just made me more and more angry, but the company owner asked me to help out and if I didnt, this one poor guy would have had to do everything on his own (which is just not right).
Today, finally back on IT work I only had 80 boxes to put into our storage in prep for some system rebuilds for several of our clients, a relatively easy job, and that's when my side exploded with pain. I have been having intermittent excruciating pain in my side for about a year, in all this time none of the doctors I have seen seem bothered in finding out whats wrong and I have been prescribed no pain management, and despite badgering both my local hospital and GP over and over I still have no clue what the cause is. Every test says I am perfectly healthy, and every doctor seems happy to leave it at that and I have to make another appointment myself. Anyway, back to today, my side started hurting around midday, and by 1pm I could barely move, by 1:30pm I was curled up in a ball using every ounce of my will power to keep from screaming (this is coming from someone who walked on a broken foot for 2 weeks as a kid before complaining to anyone about the pain). I didn't bother going to a doctor, because that didnt work the last 3 times I had tried (they make me sit in a waiting room for several hours, then get a nurse to suggest ibuprofen) so I just toughed it out for about 4 hours until the pain was back down from hellish torture to around severe cramp levels, my eyes were red from blinking back tears, my whole body was shaking, and the only thing to do was get back to work because after a year of this, if I went home every time it happened I wouldnt ever get anything done.
So after these last 3 days my body is completely drained from wednesday, my mind from thursday, and my spirit is well and truly crushed from today, all in all leaving me feeling fragile and drained in every way.
Oh, and edit: My side still hurts even now, not enough for me to be unable to ignore it, but enough to make me think it is going to flare up another few times before it goes away properly again (it does this, every now and then it will make me wish I were dead for a few days, sometimes as long as a month will go by between it happening, sometimes only a few days)
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