Tribute to mother

Just pain - no gain.

Finally rolled out bed (yes rolled - because I am not actually able to lift my head, sit up and get out of bed) after no sleep. And by that I mean absolutely NO sleep.

I can not recall since I last was in so much pain. Turns out that lying down - in any position; back, stomach, side, with pillow, without pillow - everything hurts. Even with pain killers.

Walk in to the bathroom, the horrific look that meets me makes me burst in to tears. I've turned in to a swollen chinese gnome (no offense to chinese people - it's just not my look..). Every breath feels like a an iron claw grasping my upper back.

Cramp.

A cramp unlike any other that just won't let go.

Seeing my swollen face, being in constant pain, I turn in to a little girl and call my mum (waking her up in the middle of the night in Sweden) and cry. No crocodile tears, but hysterically crying.

- Will this ever go away? Why is it getting worse? What can I dooooo????

Wonderful, sweet, blessed mother manages to calm me down. Being a physiotherapist she explains (read: looses me) all the latin words for the various parts of my spine, instructs me to some ease & release excerises over the phone and suddenly it all feels a little bit better.

Actually everything but lying down feels better. Guess I won't be sleeping a whole lot the coming 48hrs.

People of Delhi: Be aware of the blonde, chinese gnome coming your way..