Oh Me Oh My..

I worked a 16 hour shift last night for the first (and if I'm smart, the last) time. While I was working my back started to annoy me. At lunch time I was stretching a little and it really hurt! I took some advil and ignored it. Later that night when I was leaving I took some more advil because when I went to the bathroom and bent down to pull up my pants I felt so much pain, it was terrible! I tried to straighten up and it just hurt... constant pain in the mid left side of my back. I could barely breathe, walk, sit, stand, or talk. I just wanted to go home, but I got outside and realized I probably couldn't sit in my car that long. So, what's a girl to do when she's already at the hospital? Go to the ED. SO, I went reluctantly but my reluctance was defeated by the terrible pain growing in my back. I filled out the paperwork waited in a room, went to another room where I answered questions, then waited in another room. Finally I was taken back to a "room" with a curtain for a door where I was told to put on a hospital gown and I waited some more. I was overcome with chills shaking my body from head to toe. I covered up in a sheet and waited. Finally, I was seen by a doctor, I peed in a cup, blood was stolen from my body, and I was rolled in my bed to get a chest xray. I know that's what I thought... Chest xray? IT'S MY BACK! But in the xray they found a slight infection in my lungs. So, I was rolled back to my room where I waited falling in and out of sleep. (A sweet ER tech gave me a pillow and warm blanket.) So, I left with Rxs for a muscle relaxer and an antibiotic. I guess I just pulled a muscle in my back, but it HURTS! Daniel is currently at Rex getting said Rxs filled. Of course they were closed last night and didn't open until 1:00 today... So, still I am waiting in pain... and now on top of my killer back pain I keep trying to sneeze... this is a terrible combination. I just hope I don't start coughing until after my back is better. On an interesting note, I don't get any leave hours until Wednesday so, somehow I am supposed to go to work taking three muscle relaxers a day and an antibiotic. I can't miss work. I just don't know what to do. Also, I picked up and extra day this week that forces me to get off at 11pm the previous day only to return at 7am. What is wrong with me??? I was just desperate for some extra hours I guess...