lucky

me. i've been having a what i would call sore pain if my right side for a few days. i figured that i had slept wrong and that it would go away. well, it's still here and last night i mentioned it to the girl. she did some examining and informed me that it is not a muscle. i might have a bruised and or cracked rib. i've never had a broken bone so i can't tell the difference between sore muscle and hurt bone, but when the girl was poking around and trying things out......i understand now. the pain is only in one area about the size of two finger tips. what do i do now? nothing i guess. i'd like to know for sure if it is broken or not, mostly so i can call my mom and freak her out and make her think i was in some sort of "dangerous city gang fight". then i'll for sure not have to host the easter dinner at my house. if a doctor did discover that it was broken they can't do anything i suppose so i'm going to see if it goes away as a bruise would do. then i might reconsider if it doesn't. one elbow during a basketball game might change my mind though. the best part is that i have no idea of how i would have done it. i have no memory of going "ouch, that really hurt. i hope my back is ok." damn alien abductions. last night i gave myself a splinter in the outer side of my pinky from my own drum stick while playing. it was a nice quarter of an inch in length. maybe it's not so hard to imagine that i hurt my rib.