I use breathing exercises in my therapy sessions, and before he left for his break, T recorded one onto my voicemail with a little message at the end. That's been helpful to listen to the past few days.

Can't use warmth 'cos it worsens the inflammation around the disc, which compresses the nerves further - but i do use cold a lot. It's just that the relief is fleeting and nothing touches the ache in my arm because that's coming from a compressed nerve.

Just have to wait it out for physio.

Tomorrow, i'm going to try to get out of the house, even if just for a while. It's a bit of a scary prospect as one wrong move and i could collapse again, and the pain is so draining i have very little energy, but i'm going stir crazy at home.

Figure i can just put a note in my wallet saying i have a neck injury so if i keel over and someone comes to my aid, they don't make things worse. Working on the premise that if i'm prepared for something going wrong, nothing will. Fingers crossed!