All of this happened in one week

And most of it took place within a two-day span.

1. My stiff neck started spasming (is that even a verb? It is now).
2. My family doctor prescribed me a muscle relaxer, which only made me feel drugged, drowsy, dry-mouthed, and nauseated.
3. I ran an (apparently unrelated) 102 degree fever.
4. I bit the bullet and took Audrey and my mom to a special Christmas event at the Children's Museum.
5. This entailed driving with my mom sitting shotgun through downtown, as she refuses to go on interstates unless highly drugged, and enduring her gasping at cars passing mere feet (FEET!) from us every other minute, and telling me what I needed to watch out for in the interceding minutes.
6. Leo, with the girls and two other passengers (none me), was rear-ended by another vehicle, most likely totalling our van.
7. Leo took sick with a 100 degree fever, which feels like 105 to him since he hardly ever gets fevers.
8. My chiropractor took x-rays of my neck and found that my cervical spine is curved the wrong way, and that the vertebrae of my cervical spine are misaligned, particularly in the region that is currently offending me.

People, it's Christmas week. We are down to one vehicle, with plenty of shopping yet to do, no time to shop for a new vehicle until after Christmas and no guarantee that a lease from insurance will last more than a couple of days. We have not had two healthy adults in this house for at least two weeks, and it doesn't look like that will change soon. Christmas Eve my parents and my sister's family are all supposed to be here. For dinner. At this point, they'll be lucky to get pizza and receive their presents wrapped.