12 days until Trevor is home for good.
After eight months of anticipation, it is finally coming to an end. I am most looking forward to not looking forward to anything - being able to enjoy the moment rather than dreading its completion. I'm sick of wanting, I'm sick of waiting.
The last few days really are the longest.
Today my hand and forearm have been twitching uncontrolably. A lot. Now everyone gets twitches, but has anyone ever bothered to find out why? Obviously the doctors have, but I doubt that the average person has. So, for the benefit of all, I have learned why they happen.
Muscle twitching is the result of minor local muscle contractions or the uncontrollable twitching of a single muscle group served by a single motor nerve fiber or filament.
Muscle twitches are minor and often go unnoticed. Some are common and normal, while others indicate a neurologic disorder.
Benign twitches (not caused by disease or disorders) are quite normal, often affecting the eyelids, calf, or thumb. They can be triggered by stress or anxiety, diet deficiency, or a drug overdose (caffeine). They can also be drug side effects, such as diuretics, corticosteroids and estrogens.
Assuming I don't have a neurological disorder (some people would disagree, I'm going to give myself a diagnosis of stress and anxiety. I hear that it's common at the end of the school year.
And there goes my shoulder too. Good grief.
(Thanks to the
Medicine Plus Medical Encyclopedia for occupying me during the early hours of the morn.)
