Although I pulled my back a week before fair entries were due, except for sleeping pretty much trying to recover, I worked like a dog preparing four items. I could have done more had I allowed a little more time, and even if my back and right leg weren't killing me, I could have moved faster and done more. The main thing which got me through it was telling myself I would call the chiropractor when the ordeal was over. The day after fair entries were turned in I called the office only to learn he was taking his last patients that day before leaving on a lengthy vacation! What kind of sadist goes on vacation right after fair entries are due? Don't they know people
kill themselves preparing for the fair?
Then three of my four entries, including one which turned out really cool and was really hard to make, got lousy red ribbons and only my Halloween Tree got the Superintendent's Award!
There are no other chiropractors in the county, and the one massage therapist takes forever to get into, so I drove to my doctor's office in the next county and got a prescription for massage at the hospital therapy department in my town. My insurance won't pay so it will be out of pocket but I'm at the point where I'm desperate as the pain has spread from the original pulled muscle and now pretty much everything hurts.
(Tried posting a picture but neither uploading a file nor pasting a url seemed to work. I will post in the section about showing off our crafts if someone can get pictures to work.)