here's my piss and moan for the day.
Getting old SUCKS. I'm not even really "old", more middle aged? Turning 40 in a couple of weeks.
Flying a desk for most of my career, with lots of computer work, intensifying to exclusively computer work over the last four years, has done a number on my spine. After 4 years of chiropractic care with only short-term success, in 2018 an MRI revealed "large, broadbased posterior disc osteophyte complex" with "moderate to severe foraminal narrowing" at my right C8 nerve root (between C7 and T1, medicalese for bone spurs protruding into the hole that the nerve is supposed to come out through). When it's acting up, I get pain and/or tingling down the ulnar nerve which runs down to the little finger, and the damage caused some lost grip strength. In 2019 found a PT that taught me some "nerve flossing" exercises that when done promptly at the first sign of a flareup, prevent it getting worse and I have no problems for 6-12 months.
Then, a couple weeks ago I had what seemed to be a muscle strain in my right trapezius. It was spasming and every time it spasmed, would kick off that nerve pain BAD. Like couldn't sit still, just pacing around the house bad. Like how you know when it's time to take the family dog to go "live on a farm" because he's in so much pain he just walks around the house all day and night. A couple days of rest, a week of tylenol, flexeril and prednisone and the muscle seemed to mostly calm down, but the nerve pain stayed. Nerve flossing makes it worse. Doesn't seem to bother me if I'm active, but gets cranked up when I'm sedentary. Thought maybe the activity was making it worse but not showing up until the evening, so I try resting a couple of days and then it gets WAY worse.
So I go into a chiro that my mom recommends. Take some x-rays, my cervical spine is shaped like an S instead of a C, and wouldn't you know the part that's bent wrong is right where I have the bone spurs. So now I'm doing 2x a week adjustments and I think I'm getting better, until the night before I'm supposed to leave for a wheeling trip in Colorado and I go get a haircut. Lay my neck down in that sink with my head cantilevered off of it to get my hair washed and I'm back almost where I started before the chiropractor. Can't even think about 40+ hours in a Jeep and sleeping in a hammock for 3 nights so trip is cancelled, and chiro is only open M-W so I've got 5 days before any hope of relief.
Oh, and my truck needs a battery.
It's gotten so bad at times that I have just jumped in my old truck, and gone for a drive. It's a safe haven: the radio doesn't work. 
