The arm still ain’t right.
I injured it last November when I took my daughter roller skating. I was making a graceful left turn, crossing my right skate over my left, when somehow the skates briefly touched and became locked together, and I pitched forward, landing hard. At the time, I was mostly concerned with retrieving my glasses and picking my wracked 6-1/2 ft. body up off the floor before someone plowed into me from behind. My knee was in excruciating pain as I hobbled to the sidelines.
Over the next few days, most of the pain and stiffness worked it’s way out, but my right arm, which hadn’t bothered me immediately after I fell, got worse. My shoulder and especially my wrist were extremely tender. I’m a leftist, so I often joke that my right arm is a useless appendage that just gets in the way, but I suddenly became very conscious of the numerous tasks my inferior arm and hand are responsible for that I hadn’t really thought about before. Tasks like opening doors and dialing phones, that my all-important left hand is too high and mighty to be bothered with. Also important stuff that I couldn’t adapt to left-handed use, like operating my mat cutter. Quite a backlog of mats to be cut built up over the next couple weeks as I waited for my arm to heal.
It’s about 90% now, improving slowly, but the pain flares up once in awhile. I have to be careful about putting pressure on my wrist if I have it turned all the way out.
My daughter had a brain freeze today. I asked her what that was. Same thing as an ice cream headache.
Here it is, July 6th, and we’ve had hardly any hot weather. Which is okay by me. My wife teaches swimming, so anything under 90 is cold to her. But I’m glad to have a mild summer. Hope it continues this way.
Business is slow. Very slow.
Very.
Slow.
I injured it last November when I took my daughter roller skating. I was making a graceful left turn, crossing my right skate over my left, when somehow the skates briefly touched and became locked together, and I pitched forward, landing hard. At the time, I was mostly concerned with retrieving my glasses and picking my wracked 6-1/2 ft. body up off the floor before someone plowed into me from behind. My knee was in excruciating pain as I hobbled to the sidelines.
Over the next few days, most of the pain and stiffness worked it’s way out, but my right arm, which hadn’t bothered me immediately after I fell, got worse. My shoulder and especially my wrist were extremely tender. I’m a leftist, so I often joke that my right arm is a useless appendage that just gets in the way, but I suddenly became very conscious of the numerous tasks my inferior arm and hand are responsible for that I hadn’t really thought about before. Tasks like opening doors and dialing phones, that my all-important left hand is too high and mighty to be bothered with. Also important stuff that I couldn’t adapt to left-handed use, like operating my mat cutter. Quite a backlog of mats to be cut built up over the next couple weeks as I waited for my arm to heal.
It’s about 90% now, improving slowly, but the pain flares up once in awhile. I have to be careful about putting pressure on my wrist if I have it turned all the way out.
My daughter had a brain freeze today. I asked her what that was. Same thing as an ice cream headache.
Here it is, July 6th, and we’ve had hardly any hot weather. Which is okay by me. My wife teaches swimming, so anything under 90 is cold to her. But I’m glad to have a mild summer. Hope it continues this way.
Business is slow. Very slow.
Very.
Slow.
posted by Ron at 12:41 AM
