I wasn't going to make another post about my legs because I'm not a gramma. But this was so ridiculous last night, nothing else that happened to me succeeds it as post-per-day postworthy.

My legs hurt. A lot, right? Even though I felt mostly better everywhere else (except I couldn't do much without suddenly overheating). And the pain kept getting worse, even though I was taking Theraflu, which has acetaminophen in it.

So I decided to go to bed, both because it would take my mind off the leg pain and because American Idol was over, so what more could the day bring me?

Oh, so much more.

Whatever is causing this pain, movement must help it, because it just got worse and worse while I was lying in bed. I'd rotate every half-minute or so, because that would stop the aching for about five seconds, but then it would come back even worse. And five seconds is not long enough to fall asleep. Although I think I actually fell asleep at some point, for half an hour or something, but then I woke up because my legs hurt.

And during this entire time, I wasn't even really tired anymore (I'd been nearly passed out right before my head hit the pillow, because of the Theraflu, I imagine, and being generally weak). I can only imagine it was because THE PAIN KEPT ME WIDE AWAKE.

Anyway, I look at the clock around 4:40 a.m. and decide that even though I've taken painkillers all day long that haven't helped, I have now about one hour of sleep that can possibly be caught, and it wouldn't hurt to try something again. So I thud my way into the kitchen (it's hard to walk when your legs hurt so much you can't really feel them move anymore--it turns out) and grab the Bayer bottle, the first thing I see (blearily).

Okay, as my friend Tom said: "They even make Bayer anymore?" And I only have it for these aspirin masks I planned to make for my face (and only did once). I don't think I've ever taken aspirin before in my life. But, of course, it worked.

It worked pretty immediately, too, so I managed to get my hour of sleep in. Bayer, who knew?

I'm a little (not very, though) worried that I've had some muscle loss in my legs due to this weirdness. My pants this morning (and yesterday) went on kind of loosely and while I haven't eaten much for the past several days--four days wouldn't really earn that significant a weight loss, right? I have Movie Wasting Away disease!