elfs | It never just rains...

This morning, as I was standing at a bus stop, my left shoulder seized up hard and hurt like hell. Throughout the day it got progressively worse, and although it is now back down to "tolerable" pain levels (thanks to ice and ibuprofen), I am still the Animatronic Elf, walking stiffly and unable to move my head.

As I was hacking my way through a very annoying modification to the FreeBSD ports system (to build mod_webkit2 for apache 2.0 after both Apache and Webkit had been installed, very strange) I got a call from Omaha. She was in the hospital.

She'd had another seziure in public. And she was just telling me about how bad the deal with our insurance company is this year. They did what they always do: they patted her on the head, told her to take two ibuprofen and go home to sleep off the post-seizure headache. Meanwhile, I had to leave work early, catch the first bus going south so I could go get the car, get Kouryou-chan from a friend's house where she had holed up while the crisis resolved itself, then hurtle all the way back into downtown, through the pouring rain and rush hour traffic, to find Omaha a little zoned but none the worse for wear, sitting in the emergency room lobby.

We all got home shortly before 7pm. The vote was for chicken noodle soup, which I made alternating with lying on my back to get the ice pack firmly wedged between my shoulders. I am currently self-medicating with a mid-range Cabernet Sauvignon while dinner cooks and Omaha takes a bath to try and relax her over-stressed muscles.

Dammit, and I had a date tonight. A real date. This is the second attempted date set up this weekend that has fallen through for some reason. I need to set up more just in the hopes that one will happen. Grr. And I was really looking forward to some nice outside time. Bleah.

Anyway, between my injury and Omaha's incident, it looks like we'll be taking our decrepit selves off to bed early.