The Night Shift Turn Around

I've finally got this 'night shift turn around' thing down pat. I think so anyways, ask me how I'm feeling in a few hours and it might be a different story. Work called at 6am this morning and woke me up asking if I wanted to do a day shift and of course I screened the call and didn't answer as soon as I saw "Private" come up on the call display. It can only be one person calling if "Private" comes up, Monique from scheduling. We're on a first name basis and I know all about her kids and we've never even met, that's how often Monique from scheduling calls me. Anyways, so my cell phone wakes me up after an awesome 6hrs of sleep and I can't go back to sleep so I figured what the hell might as well go to work but I cheated and told them I couldn't be there till 11am cause I had an appointment, total lie but they're desperate for staff so I'm going to take advantage and have a lazy morning. I really should have taken the day off today since I rarely get days off anymore but hey...all in the name of Vegas baby! After working today I'll have made an extra $234.29 to spend at Victoria Secret. We leave in 14 days! 2 weeks!!!! Oh crap, know what I just realized?? Today is Friday the 13th and I'm leaving the house. The most accident prone, looking for a place to happen girl, is leaving the house on Friday the 13th. Oh well, I've already broken my neck once so I guess I can't do it again and really it can't get much worse than that, other than actually dying of course but I've proved that I have at least 9 lives, nevermind that I've probably used 5 of them. Speaking of my broken neck my massage therapist (yep I have my own massage therapist who I see once a week) says that we're making great progress. Yesterday she worked on breaking up the scar tissue around the plate and screws. Holy cow, let me tell you, what a weird feeling that was. Only slightly painful depending on where she pressed but before I started with the weekly massages my entire neck, from the base of my skull down into my shoulders felt like it was one solid piece. So yesterday I was lying on my back and she had my neck in her hands pressing on each of my vertabrae and I could actually feel them move! It was so weird. It was like bend, bend, not bending, not bending, not bending then bend. I could totally feel where the plate was when my neck wouldn't bend. It was only slightly painful but apparently that's a good thing although this morning it feels like I've had a major workout at the gym, which we all know hasn't happened in months and months, but she says it's good to be sore the next day cause that means the scar tissue is breaking up. So now all my pseudo muscle definition in my back and shoulders is going away cause she's working out all the scar tissue that was keeping my muscles so tight! Now I look like the unfit blob that I am! I guess that's the price I have to pay to be able to move my neck :) I'm going to see a neurologist next month too which is pretty exciting. He's going to do some nerve pathway studies (sounds kinda scary) to try and figure out where the numbness and tingling is coming from. I'm hoping that it's just from the tight muscles compressing the nerves and not from the actual fusion site. If it's from the actual fusion site I'm facing the choice of having decompression surgery on the nerves or living with it but because of the lawsuit I'll likely have to have surgery to prove that I've done everything I possibly can to get better. Cross your fingers for me that it's just from the muscles cause I don't think I can go through another sugery. Although decompression surgery isn't nearly as involved as the one I've already had. Any surgery from this point on would be a walk in the park. I'd better have some breakfast and get ready to go to work. Have a good weekend!