With 20 years prior experience in teaching and now 6 months of CA and MP casework I am used to dealing with many and varied metaphoric pains in the neck.
However yesterday I woke up with a literal pain in the neck. I honestly don't remember the last time I had neck pain, if ever...
On the one hand I generally welcome a wide diversity of experiences in life, on the other this was, literally, a pain in the neck.
More specifically it was a soreness in the right back part of my neck, just up a bit from the trap.
I also woke up feeling a little ill with a sore throat. Actually I went to be feeling a bit off I was tired.
Saturday relative misery....
So despite the relative pain I got out of.bed early ish and went for a walk along the river to Sainsbury's- did some bottle recycling. NB I usually walk to do this it's a nice roundabout route into town.
I couldn't actually turn my neck I had to turn from the waste when crossing the road to check. Also it was a bit uncomfortable to be fully upright. If I hung my head a little it was more comfortable.
Anyway I persisted with the 6000 step circular and got home to laze around.
I was also dead set on doing proper IF today and so drank herbal tea until 2 then had breakfast.
Anyways when I went to bed I noticed I couldn't comfortably lie on either side with my dodgy neck so I just lay on my back.
And then it just cleared up!
On waking up in the middle of the night while my neck was stiff the pain was well gone, so I was able to sleep on my side.
And the following morning... again neck a little stiff but I still made it out for a 10K run!
And my neck is basically fine, so I don't know what that was all about...?
The NHS tells me...
It could be cancer, then again it could just be stress, or a few other things in between, so that's about as useful as if someone just hadn't bothered to put together this useless infographic that doesn't really tell anyone anything...
I guess I can rule out whiplash, I KNOW I haven't been in any car accidents lately.
Besides that, assuming I don't have cancer and this isn't one of the symptoms, I guess it is just a reminder to use myself more carefully going forward, and chillax more!
Postscript....
Are people getting iller...? I've been ill about 3 times in the last 6 months, after not being ill at all really for the 6 years prior to that, besides one bout of covid. Maybe bugs have adapted and got harder, that was always gonna happen.