I'm really pissed off right now~!!!

It's so STUPID how this happened, but I have sprained neck~!!!

So, I was fine this morning. Woke up, made breakfast, dressed, but I had in itch on my back. I couldn't reach it (or figure out its exact coordinates), so I tried using the mirror to see what might be causing it (something I've done before, so in my mind, it wasn't an issue).

I was turning and trying to figure out where it was until I heard a pop-like-tear followed by excruciating pain on the right side of my neck. I fell to the floor and doubled over on my bed. I got up and I wasn't able to turn my head at all.

I walked to school, no problem. Over time, however, the pain got worse and worse. It felt as if a knife was jamming itself into my neck at random times. Toward the end of the day, it was so bad that it literally prevented me from moving. Seriously incapacitating.

My English teacher called my supervisor, and he took me to a specialist. The doc did a few x-rays and junk. Sent me home with a prescription (4 different pills and a compress which they're sending me through the mail). They told me it's not a sprain, but they never told me what it really is.

At this moment, it REALLY hurts. Like BAD. Like, I want to die or go insane or kill someone kinda pain. I wouldn't wish this on anyone~!!! I can't even COOK anything without wanting to yell and curse~!!!

So, that's my neck sprain story. This is bullsh!t, because I REALLY wanted to go to taiko practice today. I looked forward to today all week, and next week's practice is canceled.

Not to mention that last week, I was suffering from allergies (even thought I was coughing up blood - thankfully it wasn't from my lungs). The week before, my body was suffering from flu-like symptoms. Each event I told myself that I wasn't going to the f*ckin' hospital; that I wasn't going to LOSE to this sh!t; that I just need to get over it.

Seriously, transitioning from a dry-ass desert to moist-ass Japan has been hard on my body. And now THIS bullsh!t. I'm really pissed off right now~!!! This is my 3rd time in less than a year that I had to get drugs for something. I NEVER had this many problems in the States~!!!

I'll get better. I won't lose to this~!!! I'm sure it's a sign for something.

On an up-note, I finally got a hair cut yesterday. Doesn't look bad at all. I feel 1,000 lbs lighter.

The Black ゴキブリ & My Pain

NOTE: There are no pics for this short blog - I apologize.

You know what a ゴキブリ (gokiburi) is? It's a cockroach. Ok, we've all seen these nasty, hemimetabolous insects before. But the ones in Japan give me an even more unpleasant feeling up my spinal column.

Story time...

So I came home one day, ready to cook something for dinner when I noticed something moving above me. This enormous ゴキブリ was scurrying about my ceiling. I quickly grabbed a can of cockroach spray (with a picture of a male chicken on the bottle - a picture that may lead one to suspect that it's Poultrycide, you know, for all those pesky chickens that raid your kitchen at night) and gassed the pest. After hitting the ground with a crunchy-like sound, it started running and trying to fly. I contained it in a paper cup, punctured a hole at the top, and continued to gas it. It took a whole night for it to die (I was still able to hear it scratching away at the cup walls while I was sleeping).

Don't know how it got in cuz my apartment's clean and virtualy oxygen-proof. Maybe it's kharma for making fun of my friend Kyle earlier in the work year. I would always say to him that there was a giant beetle kickin' it behind him on the wall while he was on the computer chatting with me. Ok, Kyle, I'm sorry. Happy now~!!?

Now, it's Tuesday night. Yesterday was a holiday. I spent my whole, glorious weekend indoors because I fell ill. A cold, allergies, I don't know, but all I know is, I can't breathe, my throat's sore, my eyes hurt, and my nose is stuffed up. This is my pain. I just want to be back to normal. Stupid wind and weather...

...more soon~!!!