the worst times

In August of 2002 I quit my job as a police dispatcher and went back to school. I remember feeling some discomfort in my neck and shoulders when I would sit for too long in those uncomfortable chairs. I chalked it up to being pregnant (oh yeah, I was pregnant) and getting older. I still did not think I had any sort of "problem" or "injury". In the spring of 2003 I took less classes and toned it down on the computer a bit so I wasn't feeling too bad. I was too busy getting ready for the new baby to work as much. The fall after my boy was born I went back to school and took several computer classes (I am a computer science major). My pain started getting progressively worse and worse with all the work .. and then my boy started gaining weight. He was almost 30 pounds by the time he was a year old, so now, besides all the computer work, here I am hauling 30 pounds of child around on one hip all the time.

By early 2004 I started realizing I had a major "problem" and some serious "injury". :( I did not, however, know what the injury was called and had a very hard time finding information on it.