My ongoing neck pain is really slowing down my productivity this week. However, here's more on the US gov't and passport silliness. As if the RFID chip proposal wasn't bad enough, this one is, pun intended, a real pain in the neck.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S announcement that U.S. citizens are soon going to need passports to get back into their country from Mexico and Canada, is being played as a way to keep Americans safer. But like most everything else this president has done in the name of security, the only things there will be more of if this measure goes through are bureaucracy, hassles for Americans who don't have passports and never needed them before to travel to Mexico or Canada, and bad feeling between the United States and its neighbors.
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How bizarre it was to read (on Thursday evening) of your neck issues this past week -- with no obvious cause, I too woke up on Tuesday with severe left-side pain. Tried to just work through the nuisance for a couple of days, but by the time I arrived in classs Thursday morning could barely turn my head to the left or look down, and 24 hours later it had finished its spread to the right side as well. A very unpleasant day of tests (especially the practical) and multi-hour commute back south, to say the least.
Late yesterday afternoon I finally took my instructor's Friday-morning advice: wrapped my neck with a make-shift brace (a handtowel) to semi-immobilize it, the essential part being to keep the chin up, thus relieving the rear musculature of much of its support duties. Can't really say if it's that which is helping or whether it's more due to simple passage of additional time, but I'm back to perhaps 75-80% range of movement with much less pain as of this typing (and I sure wish I'd tried that early on... ).
Yours in syncronicity,
-wfs
Posted by wfs | April 10, 2005 12:21 PM