"I'm Bored"

These are words we never (and I mean never) hear around our house. Most of the time we don't even have the time to get to everything we would love to do, so I was sincerely shocked when I heard those words come out of Stacy's mouth.

Let me explain . . .

About a week ago the right side of her neck started hurting. Any of you who know Stacy well know that she has a neck that is very sensitive to stress--and by stress, I mean strain on the muscles. She has to sit in the middle of the theater so she doesn't have to twist to see the screen. Sitting next to someone at a restaurant can make her neck flare up because she isn't looking straight at them. This kind of stuff. So, her neck started hurting, bad enough to be troublesome but not so bad as to prevent her from going out to eat or seeing friends. Most of this was made possible by keeping a hot rice sock on her neck constantly.

Then on Monday, she was explaining something about Martin Luther King since we were about to watch his speech. She was mid-sentence and the left side of her neck went into total spasm. This is the kind of thing that brought tears to her eyes and made her immediately collapse on the sofa. For the past two days there have been lots of tears--because of both pain and frustration. By Monday night it was so bad she could hardly lay down without pain and spent the entire night laying on her back, but not really sleeping. She was so stiff from sleeping in one position that she was sore everywhere. Without going into a million details, here are some of the remedies we've been through:

Ibuprofen
Icy Hot patches
Kava kava
Direct heat
Osteopathic Manipulation
Acupuncture
Hot showers
Cursing

Here are some things she's been able to do since the pain got really severe:

Watch TV
Watch the snow come down
Eat, sort of

Here are things she'd rather be doing:

Walk around normally
Eat at the dinner table
Lay in whatever position she feels like
Read and respond to her emails
Blog
Read a book
(She missed a dental appointment because of this, but I don't think she's overly sad about that one.)

So, here's the $64,000 question:

WHAT SHOULD SHE DO?!

She's bored, and that is so not like her.

TV is old already. We hardly watch it in the first place and she has nothing that she watches that I don't

Reading would be nice, but holding a book for that long in that position only makes things worse.

The computer is out for the same reason.

See the problem?

Can you imagine Stacy being bored? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Have I mentioned how frustrated she is? Do I really need to mention it? Yeah, you get it.

HELP!