We wish we can report that Eric was doing something more heroic when he pulled his neck muscle (e.g. playing football over Thanksgiving weekend, lifting heavy lumber while building a house in developing country...). Unfortunately, Eric pulled his neck muscle while rolling out of bed Sunday morning of Thanksgiving weekend. (After searching on line, Julie found that this is a very common situation. )
At first Julie thought Eric was just playing around, but after a few minutes of agony... it was for reals. Julie spent 30 minutes trying to help Eric out of bed but it was tough. First Julie pulled on the pillow slowly to rotate Eric's head, then slowly roatate his legs...any minor movement of his neck caused him a lot of pain. Moving at snail speed ( feeling pain with every bump on the road), we made it to the acupuncturist's office after 1+ hour (we didn't really wanted to wait at the ER for 5 hours on a Sunday).
Eric was able to move his neck a little after 1 hour of poking around.
The next day, Eric got some muscle relaxant from the UCSF acute care doctor which knocked him out for the next 3 days.
I guess it was a blessing in disguise because this was a much needed vacation for Eric. Don't worry, Eric is all better now.
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