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I appear to have bruised my tailbone quite badly, and I have no idea how I did it. I didn't fall, and I don't remember knocking against anything. The only time I might have done something to it was at church on Friday, when I was distracted by my cousin's fainting fit. I have no explanation for this.
The net result is that I have been in a reasonable amount of pain for the past few days, and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. This is A) highly embarrassing, and B) extraordinarily inconvenient. I never realized just how much my tailbone (and the adjoining muscles and ligaments or whatever) plays a role in my everyday existence until it started to hurt.
The pain isn't debilitating by any stretch of the imagination, don't get me wrong. It's just. always. there. No matter whether I sit, stand, or lie, it hurts to varying degrees. If I stay too long in the same position, it hurts more. Transitions (going from lying to sitting, from sitting to standing, etc.) are the worst, and cause shooting pains up my lower spine.
There has been a lot of swearing under my breath for the past few days, needless to say, and Tylenol is serving only to keep the edge off (which is saying a fair bit, given that I have a pretty good pain tolerance threshold).
The only ice pack I own right now is a hard one, and thus causes a lot more pain to use than it really should. Tomorrow I shall invest in a gel-pack in the hopes that it will be more useful.
What a (literal) pain in the ass.
The net result is that I have been in a reasonable amount of pain for the past few days, and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. This is A) highly embarrassing, and B) extraordinarily inconvenient. I never realized just how much my tailbone (and the adjoining muscles and ligaments or whatever) plays a role in my everyday existence until it started to hurt.
The pain isn't debilitating by any stretch of the imagination, don't get me wrong. It's just. always. there. No matter whether I sit, stand, or lie, it hurts to varying degrees. If I stay too long in the same position, it hurts more. Transitions (going from lying to sitting, from sitting to standing, etc.) are the worst, and cause shooting pains up my lower spine.
There has been a lot of swearing under my breath for the past few days, needless to say, and Tylenol is serving only to keep the edge off (which is saying a fair bit, given that I have a pretty good pain tolerance threshold).
The only ice pack I own right now is a hard one, and thus causes a lot more pain to use than it really should. Tomorrow I shall invest in a gel-pack in the hopes that it will be more useful.
What a (literal) pain in the ass.
