Dull Ache Under Left Shoulder Blade Novels & Stories

THANE I woke to pain that had no clear location. Not my shoulder, though that ached in the dull, distant way of a wound already closing. Not my chest, though my breath came shallow and careful. The pain was somewhere I could not point to, somewhere underneath my body entirely, and for a long moment I lay still and let my mind climb back up out of wherever it had been. Rowena was in the chair beside the bed, asleep sitting up, her hand still resting on the blanket near mine as though she had fallen asleep holding it and the holding had simply continued after sleep took her.

BRIELLA. I stretched beneath the covers, and the ache caught me off guard—a deep, dull soreness between my thighs that pulsed when I shifted my legs. My muscles protested in places I didn't know could feel this way: the insides of my thighs, the tender spot where my neck met my shoulder where his teeth had pressed just a little too hard.

"God, my back is killing me. We slept on the floor. Why did we sleep on the floor?" Cale turned his head. The movement pulled at a muscle in his neck. A sharp, hot line of pain shot down his spine, radiating out to his shoulders. "Pain," Cale whispered, testing the word. Elion froze. He leaned over, his face filling Cale's vision. Green eyes. Gold flecks. Dark circles under the lower lids. "Bad pain?" Elion asked, his hand hovering over Cale's chest. "The leg?" "Everywhere," Cale said. He lifted his hand. It felt heavy, like it was made of lead and gravity. "My neck. My shoulder. My hip. It aches. A dull, persistent throb."

I let my head rest back against the wall, eyes closing as the pain in my shoulder throbbed steadily. “Hold on,” I murmured under my breath, not even sure if I meant it for her or for myself.

His fingernails dug deep into the flesh of his upper arms, causing the fabric of his dress shirt wrapping around his shoulders to crumple under the brutal force of his grip. The doctor cast an apprehensive glance at Aiden's back before shifting a sympathetic look toward Alma. He gently pressed and examined the areas around her shoulder joint and ankle, his expression growing increasingly grave: "The dislocation in her left shoulder joint from last week hadn't even healed yet, and today it suffered another severe impact from a direct fall. The surrounding muscle tissue is heavily swollen with signs of hematoma. As for the hairline fracture in her leg bone... although the crack hasn't widened,

My own body isn't doing much better than the granary. It starts most mornings now before I'm even fully awake, a deep, dragging ache low in my chest, like something has taken up residence between my ribs and settled in for good. Some days it's a dull weight I can work around. Other days it drops me to one knee in the middle of a hallway, and I have to sit very still and wait for it to loosen its grip before I can stand up and pretend, to whoever's watching, that nothing happened at all.

I look at my left arm. It’s strapped tight to my torso in a massive foam and Velcro brace that locks the shoulder joint firmly in place. A thick black strap cuts diagonally across my chest, digging into my neck. I can’t lift the arm above my hip. I can’t even twitch my bicep without a sharp, grinding spike of white-hot agony driving straight into my collarbone. I tell my left arm to move. The muscles misfire. The bone shifts against the heavy metal pins Tariq drilled into my shoulder.

Could he be buying what I was bringing to the table? The small happiness in me quickly crumbled away like a stale bread. A ray of painful light, pierced through my left shoulder and I quickly fell to the ground. I couldn't tell what the hell it was, nor described how I felt. All I knew was that, it was the most painful thing I'd ever physically felt in my life. Imagine an arrow with fire, shot through your left shoulder, and you try to remove the arrow to stop the fire but it doesn't removes. It just stays there, and the fire doesn't quench because it can't be quenched. It just keeps burning. Now try that was about one percent of the pain I felt as I lied on the floor.

The shift in his expression is small and immediate, something in the eyes, a fraction of softening that he doesn't perform, it just happens. He closes the tablet without comment and leans back, making space. She pulls on her gloves and opens the gel, and begins with the right shoulder, the one she knows best, the one that has been the subject of more clinical attention than any other joint she's worked on this year. It's tighter than it should be, the muscle hardened in a way that tells her exactly how much he'd used it in the third period. "Lactic acid buildup," she says quietly, working her thumb along the trap muscles. "It's significant. We left it too long after the game."

ADRIAN I woke up to the steady hum of pain in my ribs and shoulder. Not the sharp, white-hot agony from before, but more like a dull and insistent ache that reminded me I was still alive, but just barely. Even breathing hurt so much, and I gasped for air.