I am sitting here today, feeling just miserable. Its a clear, crisp fall day and I am not soaking it all in. Instead, I am at the computer, eating speghettio's with hotdogs. I haven't had this since middle school. Anyways, I am feeling overwhelmed at the moment, because of my job.
I am a cake decorator at Costco. I truely do love my job, but it's killing me. Literally. I have been diagonsed with Tietze Disease and Carpel Tunnel.
The CT (in which refers to Carpel Tunnel), is common in my line of work. We use our wrist as we smooth the icing around the cake, we spin the turn table around thousands of times a day, and we squeeze the buttercream through the tiny little holes as we tighten the bag with our hands and fingers. I get it. But it never said that I would come across the numbness, the tingling of fingers through the night. I never knew the pain that would bear in my forearms at the end of the day, where if I were to swallow 9 ibprofen and ice for an hour, it wouldn't go away.
Tietze Disease/Syndrome was something I have never heard of. I ended up going to the emergancy room due to severe chest pains. I knew it wasn't a heart attack, but I also was fully aware that if you have shortness of breath and chest pains, you go to the ER no questions asked. So after hours of tests, waiting, probing and somehow metal stickers (from the EKG) were in the equation; I left with no answers. The next week went in for a follow up appointment with my doctor, and found out about this "disease".
With a name to match the pain, I began my search, which lead me here. What I found was that it was from overexertion to the chest and breast area. The best way to controlling pain and the best results is from massage or chiropractic.
So my conclusion is either I have a massage every month (which isn't a bad idea) or just quit my job (which is awful).
I guess it could be worse. Now that I have half way done eating my bowl of sodium and noodles, I think I will just go to sleep and take a nap. Even though it is only 1:30 in the afternoon. Oh well. Enjoy your day.
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