Everything happens in reverse...

[desperance]

...and you should probably pretend I typed that backwards.

So there is this meme (which is not unique to House, but might as well be), where you fix a problem only to discover that it was really just a mask for something else.

So for the last several weekses I have been taking constant painkillers for my evil shoulder. Only these last few days, it's been feeling better: to the point where, this afternoon, I realised that I not only hadn't taken any medication all day, I hadn't even thought about it.

The reason I noticed this? Was the great burning pain in my hip, ooh the sciatica, which is not supposed to hurt this much unless my back is bad, which it wasn't didn't seem to be.

Ahem. It may have been going on for a while, just that I was so loaded with drugs I didn't notice. So I am now diving back into the pills, to make my hurty hip go away; and right now, right this minute? My back is starting to ache.

I am now stepping away from the computer.

I may be some time.

(Except that I won't, of course, because I have books to write. But not tonight. Tomorrow...)