[ZIZITOPER]

Yesterday I worked at the property, with Joe. I was lifting bricks encased with mortar, pounding the mortar off them, pushing a wheelbarrow with de-mortared bricks about 15 feet them dumping them. I did this for about 4 hours.

My hands hurt last nite, but they seem fine. This is not the first time I've done this, been doing this and similar activities for about 2 weeks.

Today I woke up with pain in my upper left back around my shoulder. The pain aint excruciating or anything, but it twinges up to about a 6.5 on a scale of 1-10 and it is bothersome and I want it to go away.

I can afford the $30 copay, I have plenty of sick leave. I'm at work. I plan on not lifting anything heavy today but should I seek medical attention?

I don't want to be out of commission, we have lots of things to do. Should I make an appointment to see my usual doc, who I don't know well and will probably tell me to rest it, maybe pain pills, which will only zonk me out.

See a chiropractor (could it be a pulled muscle?) or an acupunturist, my good friends swears by them, or just grin and bear it, or wait and see if it gets worse.

I don't want to be out of commission (as far as working on the property), would seeing someone prevent this?