Uncle!
Okay, I'm starting to wonder. Was I supposed to like, uhh, die or something this fall? The signs are all there. I'm still here too. I'm thinking that may be some sort of problem.
I've never been plagued by 'aches and pains', never. Really. For the last 3 weeks, I've not been able to lift myself from bed without severe and numbing pain from some part of my body.
I was diagnosed by some quack some years back as having degen osteo arthritis in both arms. This was most likely from repeated impacts from cycling. Cycling, the non impact sport. I would wake up with such severe pain that it would take 45 sec. to a minute to straighten and workout my arms from sleeping. It was from spending 4-5 hours on a bike, most every day.
That said, that was 7 years ago. I don't spend but 4-5 hours a week on a bike now. Of course, I've noticed it is much more 'fun' to blast down narrow trails at 30+mph threading between trees, branches, rocks, and everything else. It's mountain biking. Such the relaxing sport after all those years on the boring roads.
Now, it's different. It's personal. It started with numbing pain in both elbows again. Different this time. It doesn't 'work itself out' after a bit. Its there all day. Then the neck. I'd like to use the phrase, 'some days', but in fact, all the time, there is a tearing pain on one side of the neck or the other, sleeping makes it worse. Then I tripped and fell. Just slightly, but for the first time ever since the surgery....actually hurt my knee. So very painful now as I write this, I cannot stand up from my desk and walk. I must 'work it out' to move without a severe limp. Then my back. I've never had any kind of back pain. Now my lower back is severely tweaked. I cannot stand up and walk, or sit, or sleep, or do much anything. It friggin hurts bad. It's an injury as opposed to something degen. I don't know what it came from however. Then I decided to run into a table corner squarely with the middle of my quadricep. I saw stars, but the pain went away in about an hour. About an hour and 5 minutes after doing it.....I did it again, on the same table, only harder. I got some weird deep muscle injury that made my leg bruise far away from the injury. On day last week I woke up and noticed both knees were severely bruised. (in all fairness, Jill may be beating me up in my sleep...she does want my Jeep and all) I now have some sort of hard grape sized permanent lump in my quad......just to match the weird permanent lump in my lower other leg. That courtesy of doing my best to snap the tibia with a 2X4 while loading a pickup truck for a dump run.
Which brings me to today. Last nite actually. I thought it a good idea to cook ethnic. Chinese! Nothing better than 'burning guy fried pig', or my personal favorite 'fried guy rice'. I sampled both. I had a large fire in a wok on the BBQ grill. I fortunately put on a heavy outdoor bbq mitt before moving the wok. I even had a huge copper tub, filled with wet sand, just for fire emergencies! Not really, it's a kinda outdoor firepit, but hey, whatever. Problem was the flames did a number on my arm. I have a golf ball sized 3rd degree, and a tennis ball area of 2nd degree, and numerous patches of 1st degree burns on and about my right arm.
Drug therapy! Nothing beats injuries like drugs! I remember (vaguely) Jill offering me a drink of cold wine. I politely downed the glass, and asked for another. She brought the 2nd with a Valium! I wasn't aware I was able to quaff wine. I actually tried it once and choked. Had no such troubles last nite! I do remember standing there knowing it was about to start hurting like a muthah farker, so why not self-medicate, and quickly. I went to bed in a little pain, but not too bad. I musta drunk almost an entire bottle of wine by myself, so the head was worse than the injuries in the morning.
Now, it's 3 pm and it's starting to hurt.
I've never been plagued by 'aches and pains', never. Really. For the last 3 weeks, I've not been able to lift myself from bed without severe and numbing pain from some part of my body.
I was diagnosed by some quack some years back as having degen osteo arthritis in both arms. This was most likely from repeated impacts from cycling. Cycling, the non impact sport. I would wake up with such severe pain that it would take 45 sec. to a minute to straighten and workout my arms from sleeping. It was from spending 4-5 hours on a bike, most every day.
That said, that was 7 years ago. I don't spend but 4-5 hours a week on a bike now. Of course, I've noticed it is much more 'fun' to blast down narrow trails at 30+mph threading between trees, branches, rocks, and everything else. It's mountain biking. Such the relaxing sport after all those years on the boring roads.
Now, it's different. It's personal. It started with numbing pain in both elbows again. Different this time. It doesn't 'work itself out' after a bit. Its there all day. Then the neck. I'd like to use the phrase, 'some days', but in fact, all the time, there is a tearing pain on one side of the neck or the other, sleeping makes it worse. Then I tripped and fell. Just slightly, but for the first time ever since the surgery....actually hurt my knee. So very painful now as I write this, I cannot stand up from my desk and walk. I must 'work it out' to move without a severe limp. Then my back. I've never had any kind of back pain. Now my lower back is severely tweaked. I cannot stand up and walk, or sit, or sleep, or do much anything. It friggin hurts bad. It's an injury as opposed to something degen. I don't know what it came from however. Then I decided to run into a table corner squarely with the middle of my quadricep. I saw stars, but the pain went away in about an hour. About an hour and 5 minutes after doing it.....I did it again, on the same table, only harder. I got some weird deep muscle injury that made my leg bruise far away from the injury. On day last week I woke up and noticed both knees were severely bruised. (in all fairness, Jill may be beating me up in my sleep...she does want my Jeep and all) I now have some sort of hard grape sized permanent lump in my quad......just to match the weird permanent lump in my lower other leg. That courtesy of doing my best to snap the tibia with a 2X4 while loading a pickup truck for a dump run.
Which brings me to today. Last nite actually. I thought it a good idea to cook ethnic. Chinese! Nothing better than 'burning guy fried pig', or my personal favorite 'fried guy rice'. I sampled both. I had a large fire in a wok on the BBQ grill. I fortunately put on a heavy outdoor bbq mitt before moving the wok. I even had a huge copper tub, filled with wet sand, just for fire emergencies! Not really, it's a kinda outdoor firepit, but hey, whatever. Problem was the flames did a number on my arm. I have a golf ball sized 3rd degree, and a tennis ball area of 2nd degree, and numerous patches of 1st degree burns on and about my right arm.
Drug therapy! Nothing beats injuries like drugs! I remember (vaguely) Jill offering me a drink of cold wine. I politely downed the glass, and asked for another. She brought the 2nd with a Valium! I wasn't aware I was able to quaff wine. I actually tried it once and choked. Had no such troubles last nite! I do remember standing there knowing it was about to start hurting like a muthah farker, so why not self-medicate, and quickly. I went to bed in a little pain, but not too bad. I musta drunk almost an entire bottle of wine by myself, so the head was worse than the injuries in the morning.
Now, it's 3 pm and it's starting to hurt.
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