Nothing serious, I hope

[jcollie719]

I was awakened about an hour ago by a nagging pain in the lower right side of my back. I figured I had merely pulled a muscle since it's in roughly the same area I fell on when I slipped in the tub a few days ago. I was worried when conditions like kidney stones or appendicitis came up in a search of symptoms, but the pain isn't in the areas typically associated with those. I called my dad, who said it definitely sounded like a pulled muscle. He told me to apply hot towels and/or a heating pad to the area.

I took an Aleve when I first felt the pain. Applying heat is definitely helping. I would have hated for this to be anything worse since (a) I wouldn't be able to afford medical care, (b) I didn't want to miss any work this coming weekend, and (c) I didn't want to miss RMFC in 10 days.