After a bit of activity in the morning it seems like I did very little until Jodie arrived for our regular Sunday boozing session. It all sounds very decadent, but when I look back I think we only drank about 2 pints each. We got through about six 330ml cans of lager - sharing each can between us. It often seems a lot more at the time, but Jodie can be a very slow drinker because she is always busy on her bloody mobile phone.

  There was one other thing I did yesterday, and I only have a vague idea how I did it, and only a very vague idea of what I did. I think it probably started in the morning when I partly choked on a mouthful of fizzy drink when I bent over to grab a pair of flip flops. It was just a typical case of "it went down the wrong way" with a fair bit of coughing and stuff. It didn't seem overly dramatic, but maybe I might have pulled a muscle because I was bending over (which, in hindsight was probably not a good idea after just taking a gulp of liquid).

  It wasn't for maybe a few hours before I began to feel an unpleasant pain. It was not a strong pain, but the positioning was a bit like a heart attack pain with one big difference. The pain was from the back instead of the front. It is a most peculiar feeling. Sometimes it feels like my breathing is a bit funny, but I can breathe perfectly OK, and my pulse Oximeter says there is plenty of oxygen in my blood. My blood pressure is perfectly normal as well.

  I mostly forgot about the pain while drinking, but it came back after dinner, and I wondered if it was some sort of heartburn. I did have a semi rich dinner - a pile of sausages and a small portion of baked beans. I took a couple of antacid tablets before trying for sleep. I had also taken a couple of Paracetamol tablets, and a couple of Ibuprofen tablets to cover all bases, but the ache didn't go away. However I did seem to get a good night's sleep after a late visit to the toilet where my guts exploded.

  This morning my blood glucose was looking far better than it has for the last couple of days. It was down to 8.3mmol/l. 7.3 would have been a lot better, but 8.3 isn't too bad. The pain in my back, from just under the shoulder blade, and radiating to the front, seemed just as bad this morning as it did last night. A hot shower did seem to lessen the ache, but wasn't a cure.

  I wondered how it would be affected when I walked to Aldi, and then back again loaded down with shopping. Walking did seem to help, but maybe only as a distraction - it is not a strong pain, but still annoying. I think one thing that walk did prove, and that the pain is not heart related, and so must be just a pulled muscle or something. As such it should fade away, and it will probably do it so slowly that I won't realise it has gone until it has gone.
  I was expecting rain this morning.  I think the weather forecast for today looked a lot grimmer yesterday than the more up-to-date revisions this morning. I was more than happy to walk to Aldi in bright sunshine. It made the flowers in my front garden look a lot nicer. I was surprised to see the Michaelmas Daisies already starting to flower. I always tend to think of them as an autumn flower, but maybe it is just that they last a lot longer into the autumn. Maybe it is because only the forst two weeks of June were summer, and we are now in autumn !
  This was the view looking towards the west at just before 8am this morning. It was pretty much the same as the views to the east, north and south, but this was the easiest direction to take a snap. There is now (10.48am) a lot of clouds in the sky, but it is still bright. In fact it is still just about sunny, but the gap the sun is shining through is closing up. The latest forecast revision says there might be a light splash of rain soon, but it also adds quite a few more hours when there could be sunny spells this afternoon.
  One of my purchases from Aldi this morning - Linen soft, 3 ply, toilet paper. Presumably it feels as soft as wiping your bottom on your bed sheet - one thing I most definitely do not do !

  I'm not really sure what I am doing for the rest of the day. It seems like it might be nice enough to go for a walk, but I can't seem to raise much enthusiasm for that. What might be more likely is to do a bit of gardening. I suspect that walking would be better for my (possibly) pulled muscle, and gardening could just make it worse, but I do feel a slight urge to do a bit more to the garden before tomorrows deluge of rain.

  If I believe it is going to be bright this afternoon then maybe I could do a bit of laundry, and hang it on the line to dry outside. I think doing laundry could be even worse for my ache, but it is also possible it could pull the muscle back where it should be. Doing laundry has proved beneficial to my Costochondritis in the past, and maybe I should try it for my back. What have I to lose except pain (although substituting "gain" for "lose" might work equally well).