Bit of a moment today. Left home at 4m to start at school at 5.45am. All good. We were driving the manual bus which I've driven before with no issues.
Only today, my arm totally spazzed to the point that I really struggled to change gear and started making errors because I was in more pain than I've had for a few months (and crying FFS!).
No real reason for the new level - the instructor today has a foot held together by metal, so was actually more sympathetic than I expected! At one point he said he'd move the gear lever when I did the clutch. Didn't end up doing that as he found somewhere to pull over a bit sooner than planned so someone else could finish the route to the coffee/brekkie stop.
FFS - not impressed! I hadn't taken any meds in the morning as I've just not needed to for weeks. Sometimes I'll take some paracetamol and ibuprofen at night but not even that very often recently.
So, once I stopped I grabbed the max of paracetamol and half a days ketaprofene (prescribed one morning and one evening). We had coffee and pastry and off we went. Had to drive about 3.5 hours later and took the same again about 20 mins before. I know, basically too much, but not actual overdose. Just can't take any more anti inflammatories today!
We're not driving tomorrow, so don't need major doses, but might go back to a small level for a while to make sure everything settles down!!
Chatting with the instructor, he reckons its the weather but I reckon it's stress of last week and constant altitude changes (like a few days down and a few days up. I'm not normally down from the mountain more than a day (12 or so hours!).
Thing is, it's not the bone. It's the bicep area and muscle pain. The long head bicep was severed and the bit left was 'attached' in the bicep area (the lump that gets called bicep!) but is actually quite close to the deltoid join in the arm. So all the stress of the last couple of weeks will definitely have irritated the area of the deltoid join and the bicep joins close, driving a manual bus (won't have to do that at work, his coaches are all auto!) and being blasé about meds is basically the reason (probably because I've been a bit happier than usual so felt better overall, but still needed meds it seems)
[When I say meds - paracetamol (up to the max dose a day) and either ibuprofen or ketaprofen. Nothing really interesting cos they don't work, but even if they did, probably shouldn't take opiates whilst driving, even if they don't feel like they work! LOL)
But, please universe, don't do that again - having to stop a driving lesson due to pain that was making me cry was a bit shit
What is the world coming to.
