pulled muscles and colds

So Thursday night Aaron and I are driving to get something to eat for dinner, and I have this sudden feeling of a pulled muscle in my right armpit.  It hurts really bad, and I can barely use the gear shifter because of it.  Then we get inside, and my fingers are tingly.  And the inside of my upper arm feels kinda weird, too.  So I've either pulled a muscle or pinched a nerve.  I'm not sure which, and I'm not sure how, but I think I may have done it trying to open the garage door a couple months back when it was jammed shut because either A) some jackass backed into it, or B) it was iced over in the winter and wouldn't budge.  Either way, I think that's how I pulled the muscle, but the pinched nerve/tingling fingers thing is what's bothering me. 

But I don't want to go to the doctor to have it looked at, because even with my insurance card, I apparently still have to pay a buttload of money for an office visit.  I had a physical/checkup and some other stuff done at the end of March, and I got an office visit bill for like $45.  Not too bad, I paid it, thought that was it.  Then I get another bill in the mail for an obscene amount of money for all the different things they did while I was there.  Some discounts were taken off, but it seems really ridiculous.  Aaron suggested I call my insurance provider and ask them if everything was done correctly, and maybe re-submit my card and the bill to them, because that's what he did when he had his kidney stones problem in September, and he hardly had to pay anything in the end.  So we'll see.

I was super busy at work all week, and my phone never seemed to stop ringing.  I would leave my desk to go to lunch, and I would come back with four or five or six new voice messages on my phone.  As I was calling people back, listening to messages, or fielding other calls, I would get more calls that would go to voice mail and have more messages waiting for me.  I'm surprised I got caught up, frankly.

This weekend has started off very slowly.  I think I am getting a cold, because I have no energy, a slight sore throat, and my face hurts.  I was up around 7:30 this morning, and then back in bed by 10:00 because I just didn't have the energy to do ANYTHING, and let's face it, if you're not going to be doing anything, you should just be laying down in bed.  So I slept until about 1:30 (Aaron came in a couple times to check on me and Odin, as he was napping with me), and I feel much better now.  We have yet to leave the apartment today, but I think we will venture out for dinner, as we don't have any food in the apartment.  Which also means we have to go grocery shopping tomorrow.

Also, I need to buy quarters for laundry because they raised the prices from $1.25 on each machine to $1.50 on each.  Which means instead of four loads of laundry per roll of quarters, I'm going to get three and a half.  Lame.

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