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All work and no play

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causes injuries. I had to go to the doctors yesterday because my right arm started having muscle spasms near my elbow last week and it got worse and worse then my hand started feeling weak and the pain traveled up to my shoulder. The doctor concluded that I have a strain in my trapezius muscle, she could feel the knots the size of golf balls around there and it definitely hurt when she pushed around that area. My arm is just basically super fatigued and she put me on ibuprofen 600mg three times a day for 5 days to see if that helps. Icing and warming the area as well. If it does not x-rays and steroids and if still not fixed physical therapy and bloodwork to check my electrolytes to see if the spasms are from that. So yay work. The positions I get into and for the length of time I am not surprised I have some sort of injury. I am sure I will get more as the years go on. I am young I will bounce back. In other exciting news I get to dog sit for a friend next week and in August I get to

Let's Digress

I completely forgot I had another blog after I graduated from college. I used livejournal all the time in high school and I don't think I did too much blogging in college, although I wish I had, but I used that one temporarily because it was under my school email and after things with Anthony I guess I just wanted a fresh blog. I was too busy in college getting my Bachelor of Science Medical Biology degree. Yes I am proud of it I worked really hard. I may not be a doctor but I love the job I have and I feel like I make a difference in animals and clients lives every day. Being a veterinary nurse, which is the new term now, is incredibly hard grueling task you have to know just as much as the veterinarian. You are basically their second brain and have to do most of the work while they do the things we legally cant. Techs can do just about everything except for surgeries but we do dentals all the time. And we can't diagnose but we certainly help the vet get to the diagnosis. When