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I woke up Monday morning with sharp, stab-y pains of death in my chest. It happened once in France and went away on its own after a couple days so at first I wasn't too worried. But then I actually got up out of bed and started packing my stuff up to get ready to head over to my parents place and the pain was so intense I was compelled to say "OWWWWW" out loud, repeatedly. Which is something I do all the time when I walk into walls or kick something or anything along those lines but which I never do when it comes to pains that originate entirely from within myself.

So I started to think maybe I was having a heart attack.

But you'll be glad to know I am not dead and am still pretty much alive. Did you know there are joints in your chest? I didn't. But now I do. And apparently mine are inflamed, thus the chest pain. The funny thing is even after the doctor did an EKG "just in case," I started having pain in my left arm which I'm pretty sure was psychosomatic - confirmed by the fact that another doctor listened to my heart again this morning and told me it was almost definitely a musculoskeletal problem. Oh and I had a clean chest x-ray too. (And yes, I am a hypochondriac but my doctors indulge me).

The checkup this morning was actually a routine physical I had scheduled a week earlier, and I ended up getting a tetanus booster "just in case" and now my arm feels like it's going to fall the hell off.

I haven't felt like such a gimp in over two years. At least the rash is going away.

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