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Tuesday, the tech who usually works with me until 5:30pm was out. Everyone else left at 4PM, including my boss who usually stays until 5pm but was nursing a sore foot. It was a very busy day and I'd been kicking butt on trouble tickets. At 4:30pm I was trying to help someone add printer features to their computer when I got paged. DHL was there with a door delivery of 14 computers.
Usually the warehouse staff brings them into our cage but they all leave at 3:30. This is a construction company. They start at 6Am. Everything is locked up by 4pm.
Now, I'm not supposed to lift computers in boxes. I can lift the mini-towers by themselves by hugging them close to my body and letting my legs do the work but in boxes, it isn't good for my bad disks. The guy said if he didn't leave them, he wouldn't be back until the next afternoon. I didn't know if that meant the same time or not and I didn't know if BJ would be back. We need those PC's. I happened to see the facilities manager who brought over a huge metal cart and they loaded all the computers onto it. He helped me get it into the building and said they'd be safe in the hall. Um.. that's not our policy. The large cart wouldn't make the corner into the warehouse from the hall. Darn.
So I got a small cart and started sliding the boxes onto it three at a time. I managed to get them all into the cage and only had to lift the last three onto my small cart.
When I got home, I weeded the front patch poppies and weeds because it was garbage night.
I was a little sore the next day, but not bad. The little headache I started to get went away. I thought I was fine. Then yesterday after I picked up a prescription, a little boy at the drug store triggered a mechanical bunny who played the Bunny Hop. I showed him how to do the dance one time and the bouncing of my backpack purse must have hit my inflamed nerves just right because I suddenly had horrible muscle spasms across my entire chest. I got back to my car wondering if I was having a heart attack. I waited to see if it eased or got worse. I was sweating from the pain. If it didn't ease, I was going to call 911. It eased and by poking muscles, I verified that it was external muscles only.
Scary!
I took a break from my computer last night and took Aleve and muscle relaxants at an early bedtime. My left chest muscles are still very sore and charley-horsey this morning. No more lifting/weeding for me for a while!
No bunny hopping for a while, either. :(
Usually the warehouse staff brings them into our cage but they all leave at 3:30. This is a construction company. They start at 6Am. Everything is locked up by 4pm.
Now, I'm not supposed to lift computers in boxes. I can lift the mini-towers by themselves by hugging them close to my body and letting my legs do the work but in boxes, it isn't good for my bad disks. The guy said if he didn't leave them, he wouldn't be back until the next afternoon. I didn't know if that meant the same time or not and I didn't know if BJ would be back. We need those PC's. I happened to see the facilities manager who brought over a huge metal cart and they loaded all the computers onto it. He helped me get it into the building and said they'd be safe in the hall. Um.. that's not our policy. The large cart wouldn't make the corner into the warehouse from the hall. Darn.
So I got a small cart and started sliding the boxes onto it three at a time. I managed to get them all into the cage and only had to lift the last three onto my small cart.
When I got home, I weeded the front patch poppies and weeds because it was garbage night.
I was a little sore the next day, but not bad. The little headache I started to get went away. I thought I was fine. Then yesterday after I picked up a prescription, a little boy at the drug store triggered a mechanical bunny who played the Bunny Hop. I showed him how to do the dance one time and the bouncing of my backpack purse must have hit my inflamed nerves just right because I suddenly had horrible muscle spasms across my entire chest. I got back to my car wondering if I was having a heart attack. I waited to see if it eased or got worse. I was sweating from the pain. If it didn't ease, I was going to call 911. It eased and by poking muscles, I verified that it was external muscles only.
Scary!
I took a break from my computer last night and took Aleve and muscle relaxants at an early bedtime. My left chest muscles are still very sore and charley-horsey this morning. No more lifting/weeding for me for a while!
No bunny hopping for a while, either. :(
