After suffering the past two or three days with shoulder pain, John decided to get up bright and early this morning and head to Uvalde and the Urgent Care clinic. I called yesterday and found that it's first come, first served. When we left the house, the temperature was 24 degrees, so we thought many of the warm blooded Texans would not venture out until later in the morning and we might luck out and not have to wait long to see the doctor.

We arrived at the clinic around 8:15 and found the waiting room completely empty. John got registered and within 15 minutes was taken back to an exam room. It wasn't long before the doctor came in, listen to John's symptoms, and felt the problem was not in his shoulder, but a pinched nerve in his neck. John had also been experiencing tingling in his arm and some numbness in his fingertips, a sign of nerve involvement. He suggested a steroid injection to take down inflammation in his body and also gave him an anti-inflammatory prescription. After receiving the shot, we had to wait 15 minutes before leaving just to make sure he had no adverse reaction to it.

After leaving the clinic, we headed across the street to Wal Mart to get the prescription filled. Since we left the house so early, we stopped in at McDonald's for some breakfast and then shopped for a few groceries before picking up the medicine.

We got back home a little before noon and decided since it was still pretty cold outside and were house bound again, to tackle the job of wet mopping the floor. It was pretty dusty from the house sitting empty since last spring. With John using the Swiffer and me following behind with the mop, we got the job done in record time. Our floor looks nice and clean and there isn't a dust bunny to be found. John's shoulder is feeling better than it was, so hopefully we'll get a good night's rest this evening. If the shot and meds don't eliminate the pain, the next step would be an MRI of the neck. Sure hope the injection works.